Statewide News

In 2022, Children’s Advocacy Centers in South Carolina provided services to 12,897 children. This represents a 16% increase over children served in 2021. To better understand these numbers, it helps to look back several years to when reliable statewide service numbers for Children’s Advocacy Centers became available. In 2009, South Carolina Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) provided services for 6,386 children and the 12,890 children served in 2022 represent a 102% increase since 2009. Children’s Advocacy Centers are an integral part of the statewide response to child abuse in South Carolina and the SCNCAC Development Plan has helped to ensure…

April is Child Abuse Awareness month and April 5th, 2022 is Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) Day in South Carolina. Many professionals and CAC supporters will join Attorney General Alan Wilson, the South Carolina Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers, Children’s Trust of South Carolina, and Silent Tears for the 11th Annual Children’s Advocacy Center Day. You can join us in person or via livestream from the South Carolina State Capitol. The news conference and presentation will provide information and announcements from Attorney General Alan Wilson and SCNCAC about the statewide response to child abuse in South Carolina and celebrated the work…

Columbia SC – On September 9, 2021, leaders from Children’s Advocacy Centers across South Carolina attended the signing of the South Carolina Child Abuse Response Protocol Act. This legislation ensures all children will have access to the best practice and trauma informed services services Children’s Advocacy Centers and multidisciplinary teams provide regardless of where they live in the state. “Although over 10,000 kids received forensic interviews, forensic medical exams, mental health and other services from Children’s Advocacy Centers last year, we know that some child victims of abuse did not have access to these services”, said Tom Knapp, SCNCAC Executive…

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Governor Henry McMaster was joined today by Lieutenant Governor Pamela S. Evette, members of the General Assembly, and children advocacy leaders for a ceremonial bill signing of S.229, the Child Abuse Response Protocol Act. The act establishes a statewide protocol to effectively and efficiently respond to child abuse cases. The legislation formalizes the use of Children’s Advocacy Centers and Multidisciplinary Teams in the statewide response to child abuse and will help to ensure that all children have access to the trauma informed evidence based services that Children’s Advocacy Centers provide regardless…