By Dejon Johnson RICHLAND COUNTY, S.C. (WACH) — Governor Henry McMaster declared April as Child Abuse Prevention Month alongside other state leaders at a press conference on Tuesday. State leaders in attendance included, S.C. Department of Social Services State...
By wltx.com South Carolina ranks 39th in the country for child well-being. Source:...
By Michaele Duke Pee Dee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Assault was joined by agencies, Guardian ad Litem, law enforcement, County Government, and local citizens to recognize April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. Source: The...
By Anna Sharpe A local child advocacy center assisted roughly 1,000 children experiencing physical and sexual abuse in Berkeley and Charleston counties in 2022. Ten percent of those children were from Mount Pleasant, according to Dee Norton Child...
By Tonya Brown FLORENCE S.C. (WPDE) — CARE House of the Pee Dee is recognizing April as Child Abuse Prevention Month in a special way by placing pinwheels outside their facility on Second Loop Road in Florence. The organization has 751 pinwheels symbolizing the...
By Nikolette Miller (WSPA) – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson along with state legislators and advocates will observe Children’s Advocacy Center Day at a press conference Tuesday. Children’s Advocacy Center Day is sponsored by the South Carolina Network...
Watch the interview By Jessica Mejia COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)— A cable company is helping children in South Carolina. This morning Spectrum presented a check for $20,000 to Children’s Trust of South Carolina. The money will be used to provide digital education...
Watch the interview By Mary Green COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - About one in four children currently in the state of South Carolina’s foster system are living with a relative who is not their parent. This is kinship care, and in South Carolina, it was expanded...
Watch the interview By Becky Budds COLUMBIA, S.C. — There are about 70,000 kinship caregivers in South Carolina, according to the South Carolina Department of Social Services. A "kinship caregiver" is a relative or close family friend who takes in another...
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...
By Becky Budds NEWS 19 WLTX COLUMBIA, S.C. — On Monday, school resource officers from the Richland County Sheriff's Department learned better ways to handle students experiencing mental health crises. According to the CDC, nearly one in five children are living...