South Carolina

Technical Assistance:

South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services (SCDPPPS) Sex Offender Management Team, Columbia, South Carolina (June 2005): CSOM staff attended the first meeting of this team and provided a national perspective on effective sex offender management in the community.

Training:

Provided a consultant to assist in the development of an agency sex offender supervision training curriculum and conducted training on the use of the STATIC-99 at the request of the South Carolina Dept of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services in Columbia, South Carolina, October 2005 (12 participants).

OJP Grant Sites:

1999: The State of South Carolina is predominately rural, but encompasses several major urban and suburban areas. In 1999, it had a population of approximately 3,716,400. While several key South Carolina agencies worked together previously to develop comprehensive treatment and supervision practices for juvenile sex offenders, a fragmented system of service delivery still existed throughout the state at the time of this grant. Through an implementation/enhancement grant, the Department of Juvenile Justice formed multidisciplinary teams to provide leadership in creating and maintaining a statewide continuum of treatment and supervision for youth with sex offending and sexual problematic behaviors. The overall goal of this grant was to develop a systematic decision-making process regarding the level of care and treatment needs for this population. Four pilot projects worked toward increasing the number of professionals in the targeted areas who can provide appropriate treatment, providing intensive training and ongoing supervision for treatment professionals and other team members, and building the capacity of the teams to become self-sustaining.