Author: Tom Knapp

Problematic Sexual Behavior – Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy™ (PSB-CBT™) is a comprehensive family-based clinical treatment intervention for children and adolescents with problematic sexual behaviors. The PSB-CBT™ models were developed and tested at the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. SCNCAC has worked with Project BEST to provide training and support for this model at a number of CACs in South Carolina. A number of CACs are offering the PSB-CBT model and SCNCAC continues to work with stakeholders and CACs to increase the capacity of the model across the state. SCNCAC…

The South Carolina Child Abuse Response Protocol Act helps to ensure that all children in South Carolina have access to an evidence based and best practice response to child abuse to help provide healing and restore hope during the most difficult time in their young lives. This legislation requires that in the investigation of a known or suspected crime against a child, a multidisciplinary team must follow the Protocol as developed by the SC Children’s Justice Act Task Force and the South Carolina Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers. Often times in an initial response to child abuse, it is necessary…

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…