Five organizations in South Carolina are receiving grant funding under the Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention program. Children?s Trust administers the federal Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) grants in South Carolina. These grants are funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families.
These programs are innovative, child-centered and family-focused. They work to strengthen families using proven protective factors. The programs are centered in communities where families who need help can access them easily. Currently community based child abuse prevention grants support prevention programs that specifically focus on home visiting and/or parenting education and support.
Ellen Hines Smith Girls? Home:? Family Strengthening Program
Counties served:? Cherokee and Spartanburg
Grant: $57,529
The Family Strengthening program provides an intensive, in-home intervention for families at greater risk of child abuse or neglect. This program will utilize Triple P (Positive Parenting Program) as well as service expansion from Spartanburg to include Cherokee County zip code 29340.
Agency contact:? Chamlee Loscuito, Executive Director, 864-573-9223, ext. 205, chamlee@spglishome.com
Hope Haven of the Lowcountry:? Parent Child Interactive Therapy Expansion
County served: Beaufort, Hampton and Jasper
Grant: $54,931
Hope Haven of the Lowcountry will expand its effective Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Program to prevent child abuse in low- and moderate-risk families. Hope Haven?s PCIT program will focus on prevention and strive to improve the quality of the parent-child relationship, decrease child behavior problems with an increase in pro-social behaviors, increase parenting skills, including positive discipline and decreased parenting stress.
Agency contact: ?Shauw Chin Capps, Executive Director, 843-524-2256, at hope2@islc.net
Julie Valentine Center:? Parents are Essential Program
Counties served: Greenville and Pickens
Grant: $43,435
Julie Valentine Center will continue offering the 24/7 Dad Curriculum through the Upstate Fatherhood Coalition and 13th Judicial Circuit Drug Court while expanding services offered through the Drug Court to provide the Nurturing Parenting Program to mothers who are defendants in drug-related offenses. This program will connect non-custodial fathers and drug defendant mothers with their children in a positive manner, thus improving the child?s self-esteem and opportunity to succeed academically and socially. In addition, the funding expands services to female residents of an area substance abuse treatment facility and to Spanish-speaking families through the Caf? Cultura program in Simpsonville.?
Agency Contact: Shauna Galloway-Williams, Executive Director, (864)331-0560, sgalloway@julievalentinecenter.org
South Carolina Research Foundation: PASOs for Parents
Counties served: Richland and Lexington
Grant: $55,785
PASOs (?Steps? in Spanish) is a community-based organization hosted by the University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health.? This program will serve families with children 0-12 years of age to prevent first incidences of child abuse and neglect among under-served Latino families using the Group Triple P (Positive Parenting Program).? Agency contact: ?Julie Smithwick, Executive Director, (803) 777-5466, julie@scpasos.org
Windwood Farm Home for Children:? Strengthening Families Program
Counties served:? Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester
Grant: $60,552
The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) will target low-income, single parent and teen parents to significantly reduce problem behaviors, delinquency, and alcohol and drug abuse to improve social competencies and school performance. The Parent Session is designed to enhance parenting skills and promote effective parenting styles, while the Child/Youth Session focuses on building youth life skills. Agency Contact: Debbie McKelvey, Executive Director, (843) 884-5342, Deborah.mckelvey@windwoodfarm.org
These applicants were selected through a competitive grant process. Community leaders from across the state participated reviewed and made award recommendations to the Board of Directors of Children?s Trust. Funding was effective October 2012. Grants are for a three-year cycle through September 2015 pending program performance.
Nonprofit, faith-based, and public serving organizations were invited to apply. Consideration was given to those organizations whose mission and programs align with Children?s Trust?s effort to prevent child abuse, neglect and unintentional injuries by promoting healthy, nurturing relationships between children and adults.
According to Sue Williams, Chief Executive Officer of Children?s Trust, ?All these programs impact primary and secondary prevention efforts. The goal is to positively influence parents, guardians, caregivers, and children before abuse or neglect occurs. These funds will also be targeted toward populations who are considered to be ?at risk? because of their life situations.?
Sue Williams adds, ?These programs are important to our children and to our state. They serve as innovative evidence-based, best practice models. We use the work here to inform other prevention partners throughout the state on what is working at the ground level to help keep our children safe. ?
For more information on the Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention grants, please contact Joan Hoffman, Program Coordinator and Chief Operating Officer, at jhoffman@scchildren.org and 803-744-4026.
For more information on the Children?s Trust and its programs, please visit scchildren.org.
Source: http://scchildren.org/blog/2012/11/30/child-abuse-prevention-grants-awarded-across-south-carolina/
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