A Brighter Future: Ending Child Abuse through Advocacy and Education

There's still time to register for A Brighter Future: Ending Child Abuse through Advocacy and Education.  United Way of the Piedmont, as part of the Spartanburg Community Indicators Project, is partnering with USC Upstate's College of Arts and Sciences to host this seminar, which will focus on protecting our community's children.

According to the Children's Defense Fund (2008), in South Carolina a child is abused or neglected every 49 minutes. The keynote speaker at the conference, Victor Veith, is the Director of the National Child Protection Training Center at Winona State University in Winona, MN. Guest speaker, David Finklehor, is the Director of Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire.

For more information, or to register for "A Brighter Future" please click here