CHILDRENS TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Children's Trust will scale its impact and ensure that prevention services and programs are universally available to all children and families across South Carolina.

Lead the Agenda
As a statewide leader, we seek large-scale transformation that benefits children and families.

Stregthen the Network
As an intemediary organization, we work alongside our partners and stakeholders in communities across the state.

Change the Narrative
As an advocate for children, we know there cannot be wide-scale impact without systems level change.

We will:
1. Facilitate financial, policy and systems level change.
2. Build and support a connected network of partners.
3. Enhance the skills, capacity and infrastructure of local partners.

Children’s Trust s the only organization in the state dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. Children’s Trust operates as an intermediary organization, meaning that it helps organizations and communities build capacity, infrastructure, and readiness to promote healthy, strong families through: 1) funding and implementation support; 2) workforce development; 3) partnership engagement and communications; 4) research, evaluation, and data-linking; and 5) policy and finance support to prevent child maltreatment. A unique aspect of Children’s Trust intermediary role is the use of coaches to help organizations and communities build capacity, infrastructure, and readiness for prevention services and initiatives. The coach serves as a link between Children’s Trust and its partners, working to develop or expand infrastructure, skills, and abilities necessary to scale and sustain prevention programs, services, and/or communitywide plans of action to prevent maltreatment and/or improve child and family well-being. This model of coaching is an adaptive process where the coach “guides from the side,” learning with and from community partners to help them frame their own solutions.

Children’s Trust serves as the state affiliate for Prevent Child Abuse South Carolina, Children’s Trust Fund Alliance, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT project, and the National Family Support Network as well as the leader for the South Carolina Adverse Childhood Experiences Initiative. 

Children's Trust program models help both children, parents and the people who work directly with them.
Children's Trust continues to expand its partners and is planning on continuing that growth through new programming such as the support and implementation of Family Resource Centers across South Carolina.

Using proven prevention programs and resources provided by Children's Trust, community partners work with families to build the skills and resources to ensure children grow up happy, healthy and safe.

We do this through support of home visiting, supporting three evidence-based home visiting models - Healthy Famlies America, Nurse Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers in partnership with 16 implementing agencies serving 30 counties.

We do this through our support of the Strengthening Families Program supporting 24 funded sites in 28 communities with an 87% completion rate for families enrolled in the program.

We do this through population county based service delivery in Greenville and Georgetown counties with 140 practitioners trained in the Positve Parenting Program (Triple P).