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Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect

The Crisis in Child Protection: How the System Developed and How It Should Be Reformed

The Child Protective Services System: Who's In It, and How Can They Be Helped?

Healthy Families South Carolina

Child Abuse and Neglect Information
Prevent Child Abuse America has prepared a set of fact sheets for child abuse and prevention month that can be downloaded from their site. Subjects include things like a description of an approach to preventing child abuse, tips for teachers, information for parents, and resources for communities. For information via telephone, call 1-800-CHILDREN.

South Carolina First Steps
South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness (First Steps) is a comprehensive, results-oriented, statewide education initiative to help prepare children to reach first grade healthy and ready to succeed. First Steps is for children before they enter first grade and their families. Public and private support are combined through county partnerships to enable individual communities to address the unmet needs of young children and their families. For additional information about South Carolina First Steps (click here) go to their Web page.

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