CAC Day
As part of Child Abuse Prevention month, April 1st, 2026 was Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) Day in South Carolina. Hundreds of professionals and CAC supporters joined Attorney General Alan Wilson, the South Carolina Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers (SCNCAC), the South Carolina Department of Children’s Advocacy, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, Children’s Trust of South Carolina, and members of the General Assembly for the 15th Annual Children’s Advocacy Center Day both in person and via livestream from the South Carolina State Capitol. You can view the press conference, which was held on April 1, 2026 at 10am, by using the viewer above.
Governor McMaster issued a Governor’s Proclamation declaring April 1, 2026 as Children’s Advocacy Center Day in South Carolina to recognize the valuable contributions that Children’s Advocacy Centers make to protect children and enhance the response to child abuse. In Addition, the South Carolina General Assembly issued a Concurrent Resolution declaring Wednesday, April 1, 2026 as Children’s Advocacy Center Day in South Carolina.
During the CAC Day press conference, SCNCAC presented the 2026 BeHeard4Kids State Leadership Award to Labrena Aiken-Furtick of the Edisto Children’s Center in Orangeburg, SC. The press conference and awards presentation provided information and announcements from Attorney General Alan Wilson and Tom Knapp, SCNCAC CEO, about the statewide response to child abuse in South Carolina and celebrated the work of Children’s Advocacy Centers to protect kids.
The entire press conference and awards ceremony is available for viewing using the viewer above. SCNCAC and our member CACs would like to thank Attorney General Alan Wilson and his staff for hosting the press conference. The CAC Day promotional material and Child Abuse Prevention month flyer are available for download at the bottom of this page.
As part of Child Abuse Prevention Month and in celebration of Children’s Advocacy Center Day, we are highlighting the work of Children’s Advocacy Centers and multidisciplinary teams in the statewide response to child abuse. An important part of child abuse prevention is ensuring that there is an evidence based best practice response to child abuse in South Carolina. We have developed a number of social media posts for Child Abuse Prevention Month and have posted them here. Click on any of the pictures to view it in a large format or to download it to share with your child abuse prevention social media posts. Together we can #BeHeard4Kids during Child Abuse Prevention Month and all year long.
If you are interested in supporting our work as an individual or organization during the remainder of 2026, we invite you to become a BeHeard4Kids sponsor to support our work to empower South Carolina communities and CACs to continue to deliver a best practice response to child abuse. Please use the contact us button at the bottom of this page to let us know if you or your organization is interested in sponsoring our 2027 CAC Day in April of 2027.
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