February is Parent Leadership Month, and we are celebrating parents across South Carolina who work to improve the lives of their families, neighbors and communities every day. Ashley Ray is a first-time mom who lives in Sumter. Her daughter is six months old. Since...
February is Parent Leadership Month, and we are taking the opportunity to celebrate parents across South Carolina who work to improve the lives of their families, neighbors and communities every day. Takia S. Daniels is a therapeutic foster parent in Georgetown...
Shopping with young children can often feel stressful, but it doesn’t have to be. During a recent Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) workshop, parents and caregivers explored ways to make outings easier. A group of more than 40 parents, caregivers and children...
Nearly a dozen Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) practitioners in Greenville County gathered virtually last month to build their understanding of foundational skills for family-serving professionals and parents alike. “Self-regulation is the gateway, not just...
A 2021 cycle of the Strengthening Families Program in Greenville helped some Guatemalan families overcome technological and cultural hurdles on the way to building stronger bonding and communications skills. Carmen Vazquez clearly remembers the first time she ever...
The Community Support for Young Parents initiative – funded through a grant from the U.S. Office of Population Affairs’ Pregnancy Assistance Fund (PAF) – advanced teen reproductive health in South Carolina from 2013 to 2019. Children's Trust worked with Fact...
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...
Triple P has successfully launched in the Georgetown area as awareness of the program continues to build. The message of positive parenting is spreading quickly across Georgetown County. As the Positive Parenting Program, better known as Triple P, takes root across...
The Strengthening Families Program was held in a correctional setting for the first time in South Carolina. In seven years of administering the Strengthening Families Program (SFP) with local partners across the state, Children’s Trust has seen the program staged...
A recent virtual event, Evening with the Experts, brought together a Strengthening Families Program site coordinator and three parents who have completed the program to explain why it's so effective at making positive changes in the lives of families. Ryshaun Fogle...
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...
Child Abuse Prevention Month began April 1, and 116 prevention partners in South Carolina, including 10 women's clubs, are working with Children's Trust to raise awareness through events and activities like the planting of pinwheel gardens. WEST COLUMBIA – When...