The Early Childhood Common Agenda is a set of recommendations for lawmakers in the 2017 legislative session to improve opportunity for working families and children. These straightforward practices took center stage at the State House, where Children's Trust, the...
Shannon Palm, the Children's Trust Lipscomb Safe Kids and policy intern, took part in a recent poverty simulation hosted in our organization's office. She details the difficulties that impoverished families and children in this state experience in their daily...
EdVenture Children’s Museum held its annual FROST Gala Jan. 26 and gave the 2016 Great Friend to Kids Award to Gregg and Peggy Nibert, who were nominated by Children’s Trust, for their dedication to improving the lives of children. Neil White, who tells the stories...
As Children's Trust continues its expansion of the Strengthening Families Program across the state, the organization found a strong partner for Laurens County in Thornwell Home for Children. Neil White and Michael Shirley, who tell the stories of Children's Trust,...
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 to the prevention of poor health and social outcomes as adults. That idea quickly...
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, Infant, and Early Childhood Home...
Children's Trust received a check for $77,646 from the Beta Zeta chapter of Kappa Delta sorority at the University of South Carolina after a successful fall fundraising letter-writing campaign. The ongoing commitment to the prevention of child abuse and neglect by...
The first summit on adverse childhood experiences in South Carolina took place in early November, as child-serving professionals gathered from across the state to learn more about the Children's Trust initiative to address these traumatic events that have serious...
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. As the director of the Home Visiting and Early Childhood Systems for...
Stephen Leicht, vice chair of the Children's Trust board of directors, wanted to learn more about the organization's programs. He sat in on a pediatric visit through the home visiting program and later attended a Strengthening Families Program graduation ceremony....
Five of Children's Trust home visiting partners in the Upstate had the opportunity recently to meet with Dr. David Willis, the director of the Home Visiting and Early Childhood Systems for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. They discussed the impact...
Children's Trust has begun an initiative to offer the Positive Parenting Program, more commonly known as Triple P, to child-serving organizations in South Carolina. Through regional meetings that aim to reach current practitioners and seek out new ones, Children's...