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SCYAP School-Based Mental Health Services
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
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...
Meet Mrs. Hattie Williams – Foster and (New) Adoptive Mom of Myrtle Beach
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...
Teens and Younger Children in Your Community Need a Loving Foster Home
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...
Former Foster Child With a Heart to Help
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...
Gratitude in Uncertain Times
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...
Tis the Season to be Grateful
The jokes and memes about Thanksgiving being overlooked circulate relentlessly this time of year and even though they are hilarious, do you know why they are everywhere? Because it is the absolute truth – Thanksgiving does get overlooked. How do we prevent this day...
Meet the Kellys – SCYAP Foster Parents Making A Difference Since 1992
Lonnie and Norma Jean Kelly grew up in Pascagoula, Mississippi. They lived in Los Angeles, California in their young adulthood before settling in Summerville, SC. The Kellys became licensed as foster parents with SCYAP on June 10th, 1992. The Kellys have a blended...
Developing Supportive Communities for Our Children
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. What better time than this month to talk about how we can develop more supportive communities that will in turn help our children? When communities are supportive it creates a ripple effect of helpfulness and...
10 Reasons YOU Want (NEED) to Be a Foster Parent
At SCYAP we wholeheartedly believe every child deserves to live with a loving family. Unfortunately, there are not enough foster families on a state or national scale to meet the need for the number of children who are in foster care to no fault of their own. For this...