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South Carolina is considering a plan to offer child-care services to some state workers, a move the Department of Social Services says may be for the first time ever.

A lack of affordable and accessible childcare is a leading cause for many young parents to leave the workforce.

The State of South Carolina is considering a plan to offer on-site childcare services to some state workers, a move the Department of Social Services says, to its knowledge, would be for the first time ever.

The State of South Carolina is considering a plan to offer childcare services to some state workers, a move the Department of Social Services says, to its knowledge, would be for the first time ever.

As the statewide organization working to prevent child abuse and neglect, Children’s Trust gets the frequent question – how do you prevent child abuse and neglect? With more than 14,000 children in founded cases of child maltreatment in 2023, it can seem like an insurmountable task.The answer is simple: we work to ensure families have the tools, knowledge and resources to help kids thrive. We want kids to have childhoods filled with hope, happiness, good health and play. The pinwheel represe...

Today is Saturday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2024. There are 360 days left in the year.

South Carolina parents struggling to secure adequate child care may face additional hardship soon as billions of dollars of federal stabilization funding is poised to expire Sept. 30, experts say. The potential loss to the Palmetto State is staggering — up to almost $900 million a year.

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Broad leadership experience to benefit one of the world’s leading women’s leadership organizationsNEW YORK, June 11, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Association of Junior Leagues International (AJLI) today announced that Dona Ponepinto has been named President-Elect of the prominent women’s leadership organization which has more than 125,000 members in 295 independent Junior Leagues in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the UK. Ms. Ponepinto, a member of the Junior League of Tacoma, ...