SCYAP, a leading provider of mental and behavioral health services to children and families in South Carolina, has expanded its services array to include school-based mental health services (SBMHS). Schools play a key role in supporting positive child and adolescent...
The SCYAP Foster Care Program focuses on the power of family. In a foster home, children who have suffered abuse and neglect, have the opportunity to share in healthy family relationships, to experience positive parenting, to learn and practice pro-social skills, and...
Mrs. Hattie Williams has been a foster parent since 1985 – that is over 35 years of opening her heart and home to children in foster care! What led Mrs. Williams to become a foster parent were her own personal experiences of being adopted at a young age. Her adoptive...
You could be that one person who makes a difference in the life of a teenager or a younger child who needs to be accepted and loved. Every day across South Carolina in every community there are teens and children in need of a family to hold them close while their own...
Rebecca Needham-Mortimer is a former foster child who was adopted while in the care of SCYAP in 1995. Now as an adult, Rebecca reached out to SCYAP in June of this year with the sweetest message of gratitude to her Treatment Coordinator at the time and to SCYAP as an...
Being grateful in uncertain times may seem difficult, and understandably so. Teaching lessons of gratitude to your children in these moments may be more valuable now than it ever has been in modern times. Children are watching every move their parents and caregivers...
