In our final Policy Forum of 2023, we are sharing short stories from across the state where voluntary home visiting programs made a significant difference in the lives of a mother and her child. Local home visiting programs assist families by pairing them with...
Andrea Morente and her family. Every day, parents across South Carolina work to improve the lives of their families, neighbors and communities. One of those parents is Andrea Morente. Andrea is a mom of two daughters, Sebastiana, one year old, and Maria, six months...
By Ramkumar Jayagopalan Ramkumar Jayagopalan In South Carolina, the infant mortality rate is the highest since 2012, having risen almost 40% since 2017, and the rate is 2.5 times higher for African American babies. With the fourth-highest rate in the nation, South...
Children's Trust of South Carolina board vice chair Beverly Hamilton spoke to the South Carolina Joint Citizens Committee on Children on September 7, 2023, at a Columbia public hearing during the committee's annual tour. Hamilton, who is recently retired from...
Children’s Trust of South Carolina will continue administering federal funding for home visiting across the state with the passage of the Jackie Walorski Maternal and Child Home Visiting Reauthorization Act on December 23, 2022, as part of the Congressional...
Five local family-serving organizations will gather with legislators and community members for a first-of-its-kind advocacy day to raise awareness about how home visiting is providing critical support to young families. The event will take place on Wednesday, Oct....
On September 29, the Today Show featured the story of Debbie Brush, a home visitor in Spartanburg, South Carolina, who save the life of one of the mothers she cared for. Brush is a registered nurse in the NFP home visiting program model affiliated with...
Watch the interview By Mary Green COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A nationwide program that helps tens of thousands of families each year give their babies the best start in life faces a key deadline coming up soon. Congress has until the end of September to reauthorize...
Children's Trust held its annual All Sites Assembly for home visiting grantees in a September virtual event. The past 18 months have presented many challenges for home visitors in South Carolina as they work to improve maternal and child health during the COVID-19...
South Carolina ETV shows the impact of the Spartanburg Nurse-Family Partnership home visiting program in this report. https://youtu.be/ugbWuTfMny4 A recent story by South Carolina ETV (SCETV), the state's public educational broadcasting network, featured a look at...
As South Carolina’s lead agency for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) federal grant since 2010, Children’s Trust has taken a leadership role in working with partners to deliver home visiting programs across the state. Children’s Trust...
DHEC placed its in-house communications spotlight in October on the relationship between Children's Trust and DHEC Lowcountry Region, a home visiting grantee that is delivering the Nurse-Family Partnership program model to three counties. Read the story below that...