Strengthening Families Program

Carla and Sophia Arguello

Parents Show Leadership in Strengthening Families Program

During National Parent Leadership Month in February, parents in the Strengthening Families Program step up in their communities to provide guidance and support for their peers. Carla Arguello loved the Strengthening Families Program so much that when she graduated...

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Growing Home Southeast

Strengthening Families During a Pandemic

Family strengthening programs are needed now more than ever, and Children’s Trust continues to work with its partners across South Carolina to deliver services to children and families during the coronavirus pandemic. While social distancing has limited much of the...

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Growing Home Southeast

Partners in Prevention: Growing Home Southeast

Because family strengthening programs are needed now more than ever, Children's Trust continues to work with its partners across South Carolina to deliver program services to children and families during the coronavirus pandemic. While social distancing has limited...

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Lutheran Services Carolinas logo

Partners in Prevention: Lutheran Services Carolinas

Because family strengthening programs are needed now more than ever, Children's Trust continues to work with its partners across South Carolina to deliver program services to children and families during the coronavirus pandemic. While social distancing has limited...

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Partners in Prevention: Just Say Something

Because family strengthening programs are needed now more than ever, Children's Trust continues to work with its partners across South Carolina to deliver program services to children and families during the coronavirus pandemic. While social distancing has limited...

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Local leaders at SFP graduation

Leaders Discuss What Makes SFP Special

Take a look at what child advocates are saying about the effectiveness of the evidence-based Strengthening Families Program. Neil White, who tells the stories of Children's Trust, talked to them about their thoughts on what SFP is doing for children and families...

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TJ and Henrietta Wilson, SFP graduates

Errant Basketball Leads to Stronger Family

A basketball that got away and a smashed television set could have led to anger and recrimination, but thanks to the lessons of the Strengthening Families Program, a family found a way to come together through open and honest communication. Neil White, who tells...

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Kiara Grissom

Families Growing Stronger Together

The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) wrapped up its fall cycle with graduation ceremonies around the state. We take a look at a Growing Home Southeast site in Richland County, where a group of families developed positive discipline practices, learned how to...

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Amanda Sweat and David Gates

‘I Want This for My Family’

The Strengthening Families Program wrapped up its spring cycles with graduation ceremonies across the state in May and June. Read how parents and children are taking the program's lessons into their homes and building stronger bonds together. Neil White, who tells...

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Dolores Johnson

Finding Strength in Program That Builds Family Bonds

As part of an expansion of the Strengthening Families Program around the state in the new year, Lutheran Services Carolinas held its first cycle for families this spring in the Charleston area. Neil White, who tells the stories of Children's Trust, covered the...

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