Champion for Change Through Lived Experience

Honors an individual with personal experience in foster care, adoption, or kinship care who uses their voice and experience to inspire hope, strengthen understanding, and advocate for positive change. The recipient helps ensure that lived experience is valued and that children and families feel seen, heard, and empowered.

Champion for Change Through Caregiving

Recognizes a foster, adoptive, kinship, or reunified caregiver who creates felt safety, nurtures connection, and remains committed through both challenges and growth. The recipient responds to the needs behind behavior with compassion, helps children experience belonging, and supports healing within family relationships.

Champion for Change Through Permanency Practice

Celebrates a professional whose work helps children and families experience safety, connection, stability, and hope throughout their permanency journey. The recipient leads with curiosity and compassion, values the voices of children and families, and uses relationships as a foundation for healing and lasting change.

Champion for Change Through a Culture of Care

Honors an individual or organization helping establish a trauma-informed, attachment-based culture of care in South Carolina. The recipient demonstrates a sustained commitment to creating environments where children and families experience felt safety, connection, belonging, and opportunities to flourish.