Building a thriving community is like assembling a jigsaw puzzle. It takes time, hard work and collaboration to turn an assortment of pieces into a beautiful picture. When everyone works together – community organizations, schools, government agencies and...
The definition of prevention makes it sound pretty easy – we simply stop something before it happens. When it comes to child abuse prevention, we know that it is a little more involved than that. It takes all of us working together – families, neighbors, community...
Children's Trust CEO Sue Williams looks back on the organization's collaborative work to prevent child abuse and neglect in South Carolina over the past 10 years. Here we are at the end of a decade and, looking back in reflection, we see it’s been an amazing 10...
The Building Hope for Children Conference brought together child-serving professionals across South Carolina to learn and share information about the value of prevention work. Neil White, who tells the stories of Children's Trust, spoke to a number of people in a...
Aditi Srivastav Bussells, Children’s Trust research and community impact manager, provides insight on a unique study conducted with state legislators in South Carolina on ways in which adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can be prevented through public policy...
Oprah Winfrey's report on childhood trauma for a March 11 segment on "60 Minutes" emphasized how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can have a long-term negative impact on adult health and social outcomes. Winfrey, who called the information "life-changing,"...
Ron Prinz, Ph.D, a Carolina Distinguished Professor in psychology and director of the Parenting & Family Research Center at the University of South Carolina, leads studies aimed at testing interventions and strategies for improving the well-being of children,...
Chelsea Lynes is the coordinator for the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and Children’s Health Assessment Survey, as well as the data analyst for the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, at the South Carolina Department of Health and...
Children's Trust CEO Sue Williams had this editorial published June 28 in The State. It explains how child advocates must keep working hard to implement proven prevention programs in order to continue the progress South Carolina has made in recent years in the KIDS...