Striving to improve the quality of medical assessments for child abuse and neglect
Background
In 2003, the South Carolina Children’s Hospital Collaborative and the South Carolina Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers formed an alliance to address the shortage and training of clinicians specializing in the medical assessment of child abuse and neglect and the variance in quality and delivery of these services.
In December of the same year, the University of South Carolina School of Medicine,
Department of Pediatrics, on behalf of these organizations, obtained a 3-year
grant from the Duke Endowment to fund the initial stages of a statewide program
to focus on these concerns. This program is known as the South Carolina
Children’s Advocacy Medical Response System (SCCAMRS).
In July 2007, the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, recognizing
the complexity of medical services required for the assessment of child maltreatment
and the need for the continued enhancement of the quality and availability of
such services, added their collaboration and support to the SCCAMRS framework.
Mission
Our mission is to provide and administer a comprehensive resource system to assist the state's children's and community hospitals, the South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers, and other multidisciplinary abuse assessment facilities with the development of a consistent quality standard of care and practice in the delivery of medical services for allegations of maltreatment by enhancing the knowledge and skills of healthcare professionals and sexual assault nurse examiners in the field of Child Abuse Pediatrics.
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Bare Facts of Child Abuse and Neglect in South Carolina (PDF)
