The evidence-based Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is administered by Children’s Trust with local partners in over half of South Carolina’s counties. It focuses on caretakers with children ages 6 to 11, and over the course of 14 weekly sessions, families learn...
Children's Trust of South Carolina is the statewide organization with a mission to strengthen families and lead communities in the prevention of child abuse, neglect and injuries. Our local partners across the state speak to the importance of prevention efforts and...
The expansion of the Strengthening Families Program this fall led to an interesting new partnership in a place where learning is a constant. Neil White, who tells the stories of Children's Trust, writes about this unique development. Red Bank Elementary School,...
A new initiative that addresses adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has launched in Maryland through the work of that state's leading child abuse prevention organization, which used the Children's Trust ACE Initiative in South Carolina as a model for its effort....
As the Strengthening Families Program grows in South Carolina, so does the outreach to get more men involved in the delivery of the sessions. This strategic push is one way to reach young boys in the program and also get more fathers involved as participants with...
Children's Trust seeks to spread the message about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) through its statewide initiative. Our ACE trainers are reaching many groups, including Richland District 2 educators at the start of a new school year, to explain why we are...
The man was built like a fireplug, the kind of person no one would want to cross in a back alley, but Lee Porter couldn't resist asking him what he had thought about the previous 14 weeks. Porter was curious because this man was among about a dozen fathers who had...
An important project begins in Pee Dee elementary schools to combat the effects of adverse childhood experiences across South Carolina. Neil White, who tells the stories of Children's Trust, details the collaborative effort underway to build stronger families and...
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 home for her young son, Kylen. Neil White and Michael Shirley, who tell...
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 home for her young son, Kylen. Brush, a registered nurse in the NFP home...
Megan Cain, the development coordinator at Children's Trust, outlines the benefits of the organization's new monthly giving program called Friend to Kids. If you’re like me, you may associate charitable giving with a mad dash in December as you try to figure out...
At the fourth annual Friends and Founders luncheon, over 40 attendees – a group that included donors, sponsors, current and former board members, and staff members – heard an update from Children’s Trust CEO Sue Williams on the organization’s 2016 accomplishments...