The 2017 Child Passenger Safety Summit brought together 180 volunteer technicians in South Carolina at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center to exchange information about car seat safety and receive the…
Children’s Trust held its biennial Prevention Conference that brought together 600 child-serving professionals at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center in October 2017. With a theme of “Embracing Prevention, Empowering Communities,”…
Home visiting is a proven early-intervention strategy that pairs volunteer families with services from pre-birth up to a child’s first five years to improve health, development, and early learning. Program…
With the guidance of Nurse-Family Partnership’s Debbie Brush, Kyleigh Lamb has bounced back from a teen pregnancy to keep her life’s goals in front of her while providing a loving, nurturing…
The ACE Initiative is designed for child-serving professionals like social workers, medical personnel, educators, counselors and policymakers – as well as average citizens – who care about the impact of…
Children’s Trust began its work on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) with the idea that a shared understanding of the impact of traumatic events in the lives of children could lead…
The 2016 Home Visiting Summit hosted by Children’s Trust provided attendees with peer-to-peer learning as well as knowledge and skills building through keynote speakers, breakout sessions, and facilitated discussions. Maternal,…
Dr. David Willis sat at a roundtable discussion hosted by Children’s Trust and shared his national perspective on the home visiting program with five local implementing agencies in South Carolina.
Elizabeth Smart’s abduction from her Utah home at the age of 14 in 2002 followed by nine harrowing months in captivity created national headlines. Her fortuitous rescue from her captor,…
Presbyterian College men’s basketball coach Gregg Nibert and his wife Peggy have embraced the challenge of fostering children. They first answered the call in 2006 to serve as foster parents…
