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Bellamy Will Testify on Success of Home Visiting to U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee
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Subcommittee Examines Home Visiting Model of Producing Proven, Positive Outcomes for Children and Families
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Eric Bellamy, the h
ome visiting manager for Children's Trust of South Carolina, has been invited to testify before the U.S. House Ways and Means Human Resources subcommittee on reauthorization of the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program.
Bellamy, who will testify Wednesday, March 15 at 10 a.m., will
present a state's perspective on MIECHV implementation and administration. This hearing is the official first step in the congressional process to reauthorize MIECHV, which is being fast-tracked before the legislation expires in September.
The Human Resources Subcommittee is examining a range of home visiting models, how states operate and fund programs, and how evidence-based home visiting programs can produce positive outcomes.
As South Carolina's federal grantee and lead agency for MIECHV program since 2010, Children's Trust supports five evidence-based home visiting models in partnership with 16 implementing agencies in 39 counties. The program goals are improving maternal and child health,preventing child abuse and neglect, encouraging positive parenting, and and promoting child development and school readiness.
The voluntary, early-intervention program works with families through their child's earliest years by providing regular home visits from health, social service, and child development professionals.
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Children's Trust Highlights Banner Year
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Leadership, innovation, inclusiveness and trust are the values
that define our work. They are what make us unique and keep us relevant in our critical role preventing abuse, neglect and injury of children.
We are proud of our accomplishments this year, which include serving more children and families, delivering a greater number of evidence-based programs, collaborating with more state and local partners, and deploying more trained professionals who are better equipped to build strong families and more resilient communities.
Our 2015-16 annual report details this prevention work.
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Cullum Joins Children's Trust Board of Directors to Represent 5th Congressional District
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Children's Trust has added Rock Hill resident Rodney Cullum to the board of directors as the representative of the 5th Congressional District, pending approval of the governor's office.
Cullum works as a private risk manager for Wells Fargo Insurance Services. The 20-year veteran in the insurance field also currently serves on the Rock Hill City Zoning Board of Appeals.
A volunteer with the United Way and Special Olympics, he earned a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of South Carolina and is working toward an MBA from Limestone College.
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Giving back to the community has always been a core value of SCE&G's culture for more than 170 years.
The company's charitable contributions support programs and activities that are primarily focused on further strengthening communities and providing assistance for elderly and low-income individuals and families throughout the state
Stephanie Jones, who supervises corporate philanthropy and community affairs for SCE&G, attended a Children's Trust event last year.
"SCE&G is committed to improving the lives and the communities that we serve across South Carolina," Jones said. "We certainly feel that Children's Trust plays a big part in that with their efforts to strengthen families, prevent child abuse and keep kids safe. That's a really vital role in helping improve our communities and the people who live here each and every day."
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Stand with Children's Trust During Child Abuse Prevention Month
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Everyone Has a Role to Play in Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect
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April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, the time to acknowledge the importance of communities working together to prevent child abuse and neglect while drawing attention to the effective solution of prevention.
Children's Trust offers corporate and business organizations the opportunity to stand with us during Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Month. For a $500 donation, businesses will receive a kit of materials that includes pinwheels, lapel pins, a yard sign and a poster.
Learn more about the many activities and ways to participate in Child Abuse Prevention Month.
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Children's Trust, Family Connection Collaborate to Assist Families with Special Needs
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| Innovative International Program Now Available in Communities Throughout South Carolina |
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Children's Trust has funded Stepping Stones Triple P training for 18 practitioners at Family Connection of South Carolina.
These individuals, located throughout South Carolina, are now trained in Stepping Stones and have additional tools and strategies available to help families of children with disabilities.
The practitioners can deliver seminars on parenting children with disabilities as well as work one-on-one with families that may need some additional support regarding a behavioral issue. The Triple P Stepping Stones program has experienced success with many types of disabilities, most especially with children on the autism spectrum.
Families that have children with disabilities and special needs often have greater stressors and less available resources. Programs such as Triple P work to build family resilience, coping strategies, and other protective factors, thereby reducing the likelihood and incidence of child abuse and neglect.
The federal Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention programs administered in South Carolina by Children's Trust provided funding for this initiative.
Backed by more than 30 years of ongoing research,
Triple P (Positive Parenting Program)
is currently used in 25 countries and 38 states. Since Children's Trust added Triple P to its roster of evidence-based programs, it has sought partners to begin implementation across the state.
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School Readiness Tax Credits Play a Big Part in the Early Childhood Common Agenda
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School Readiness Tax Credits (SRTC) are a package of tax credits designed to help promote child care quality and affordability and increase the income and professional development of the early childhood workforce.
Children's Trust, along with the Institute for Child Success and United Way Association of South Carolina, are pushing for these credits as part of the
2017 Early Childhood Common Agenda
in this legislative session.
If you support bringing tax credits to South Carolina, ask your lawmakers to sponsor legislation by completing this form to send a message.
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Save the Date: Prevention Conference Oct. 2-3
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As South Carolina's leader in the prevention of child abuse, neglect and injuries, Children's Trust will host its biennial Prevention Conference on Oct. 2-3 of this year at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. The two-day event is designed to help home visitors, social workers, counselors, program administrators and other child-serving professionals with their work to keep children safe and families strong.
The conference will feature a showing of the film Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope by Karen Pritzker and James Redford.
The 2015 Prevention Conference featured more than 600 attendees, 40 speakers and 30-plus training sessions. The 2017 event promises to continue that tradition and deliver rich content, dynamic speakers and targeted visibility for conference sponsors.
Stay tuned to our website and social media for more details as they become available.
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Video on ACE Initiative Highlights Key Work
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| Melissa Strompolis, director of research and evaluation, leads the ACE Initiative. |
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Children's Trust began its work on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) two years ago with the idea of how a shared better 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.
This
statewide initiative seeks to increase awareness of ACEs in South Carolina, increase local and statewide prevention efforts, and positively impact policy at all levels in the state.
National and state experts gathered at a recent summit to discuss these goals. A new video "Building Well-Being and Resiliency" chronicles the steps being taken to provide a coordinated and collaborative response to improve multiple facets of child and family health and well-being through prevention.
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Children's Trust, home to Safe Kids South Carolina, works in coordination with the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control to provide training and continuing education for child passenger safety (CPS) technicians.
The month of March is filled with a variety of child passenger safety events, including p
ublic car seat safety checks, p
ublic child passenger safety courses (not certification), and c
hild passenger training workshops for S.C. Dept. of Social Services employees.
The month's biggest event will be March 14, when Children's Trust, home to Safe Kids South Carolina, teams up with EdVenture Children's Museum and Kohl's Buckle Buddies to host a car seat safety check from 1 to 5 p.m. in the EdVenture parking lot.
More than 20 technicians and volunteers will staff this event, and parents can call 803-296-KIDS or register online for a time slot to get a car seat checked that day.
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