A recent story on the website of the Health Federation of Philadelphia's Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC) program puts a spotlight on the work being done by our Empower Action coalition in Marlboro County. The Empower Action Model, developed by...
COLUMBIA – Children’s Trust has published a data snapshot that measures the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and families in South Carolina. It highlights specific stressors for families, including the economy, education, and infrastructure. “When...
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...
A WSPA 7 News report featured a new website developed by Children’s Trust that helps connect South Carolina parents with community resources and services. Watch WSPA's Ben Hoover interview Bett Williams of Children's Trust about the site and our commitment to...
Staff reports Moultrie News The State of South Carolina is one of four jurisdictions nationwide chosen to participate in the first tier of a cutting edge national program that aims to move child welfare systems from traditional, reactive child protection systems to...
By Tony Fortier-Bensen WCIV ABC News 4 South Carolina will join two states and Los Angeles County in a new national program that will redesign the typical child welfare program into a child and family well-being system. The S.C. Department of Social Services...
The coronavirus is having a significant impact on family life, which includes the potential for greater child abuse and neglect. CNN and the New York Times featured columns by guest experts in their April 7 editions that detail the risk. The coronavirus pandemic...
The coronavirus outbreak is having a major impact on every part of daily life, and that's certainly the case for community organizations as well as state and federal agencies dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. Media outlets at the national and...
By Lauren Sausser The Post and Courier In 2018, there were 56,668 infants born in South Carolina. Exactly 4,860 of them were from Charleston County; 17,505 in the state were born to black mothers; and 18,992 were born by C-section. We know all this because the S.C....
The success of home visiting programs in South Carolina is brought into the spotlight in the latest edition of the Children's Bureau Express. In the October issue of Children's Bureau Express, Jerry Milner, associate commissioner of the Children's Bureau, and David...
By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent Statehouse Report South Carolina has slightly fewer children living in concentrated poverty now compared to five years earlier, But 12 percent — about one in eight children — remain in high poverty areas, according to new...
By Jason Raven WIS-TV Newsroom COLUMBIA, S.C. – First Sergeant Walter “Shawn” McDaniels has been with the Richland County Sheriff’s Department for more than 15 years. He works in the School Resource division. Growing up, McDaniels remembers times when his family...