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• Family Preservation Community Services
  Toll Free: 800-672-2052
  Speak with Caretha Hunter about becoming a therapeutic foster parent. You may be a single or two parent home and have an interest in working with children who have severe emotional, behavioral, and medical problems. Training and 24 hour on-call support is provided.
  
  
• Family Services, Inc.
  North Charleston: 843-735-7802
  Family Services empowers families and individuals through counseling, advocacy and education that will enrich their lives and help them become more independent. Services include Consumer Credit Counseling, Housing Education, and Family Violence Intervention.
  

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SC Family Support, Protection Organizations

• Adoption Coalition for Education and Support
• Aiken Multiple Blessings Club - families with twins, triplets, more
  
• Aiken Teen Pregnancy Prevention
  
  
• Be a Mentor Initiative - Charleston - connects kids with adult mentors
  
• Berkeley Crisis Chaplaincy - Moncks Corner - provides counseling for emergency responders and their families
  
• Big Brothers Big Sisters
  –  Carolina Youth Development Center - Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester counties
  –  Greater Columbia - Lexington, Richland counties
  –  Upstate - Greenville, Spartanburg counties
  
• Boys Home of the South - Belton - residential care facility
  
  
• Carolina Family Services - Greenville - guidance for families with at-risk children
  
• Carolina Youth Development Center - helping at-risk and abused children in the Charleston area
  
• Charleston Area Mothers of Multiples
• Chesterfield County Youth Empowerment Zone
• Child Abuse Prevention Association - Port Royal
• Childcare centers, referrals, resources
• Children's Attention Home - Rock Hill - emergency and long-term residential facility for children birth-17
  
• Children's Chance - helps families who have children with cancer
  
• A Child's Haven - Greenville - therapeutic services for children and their families
  
• Children's Place - Aiken - therapy for at-risk children and their families
  
• Citizens Opposed to Domestic Abuse - Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper counties
  
• Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy - Charleston - pastoral care, counseling for law enforcement and emergency service employees and their families
  
• Colleton Youth Outreach for Victim Assistance - Walterboro
• Collins Home & Family Ministries - Seneca - family support system for children ages 3-18
  
• Compassionate Friends - support and aid for bereaved parents, families
  –  Greenville
  –  Waccamaw Chapter - Georgetown, Myrtle Beach
  
  
• Darkness to Light - Charleston - fighting child sexual abuse
  
• The Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center - provides services for child abuse victims and their families
  
• Dickerson Center for Children - West Columbia - working with physically and sexually abused children
  
• Domestic Violence Assistance - Greenville
  
• Dorchester Children's Center - Summerville - aids abused and neglected children
  
  
• Epworth Children's Home - Columbia - residential home for children ages 4–18
  
  
• Family Connection of South Carolina - support network for families of children with special needs
  
• Family Preservation Community Services - provides a continuum of services for at-risk children and their families
  
• Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina - provides services for single parents and their children
  
• Foothills Family Resources - operates a food pantry, provides monetary help for families in crisis, teaches parenting skills
  
• Foster Care of Spartanburg
  
  
• Glenn Springs Academy - Pauline - residential center for boys ages 10-21
  
• Governor's Commission on Women
• Greenville Rape Crisis & Child Abuse Center
• Growing Home Southeast - working with foster families
  
  
• HALOS - Helping And Lending Outreach Support - helps abused and neglected victims served by the Charleston County Department of Social Services
  
• Helping Hands - Aiken - emergency children's shelter
  
• Heritage Community Services - statewide group promotes sexual abstinence until marriage
  
  
• Institute for Families in Society - University of South Carolina - seeks to enhance family well-being
  
  
• Killingsworth Home - Columbia - transitional home for women recovering from crises
  
  
• Little Steps - Greenville - helping teen parents
  
• Low Country Orphan Relief - Charleston
• Lowcountry Crisis Pregnancy Center - North Charleston
• Lowcountry Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy - works with at-risk children
  
• Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas
  
  
• MUMMS Club of South Carolina - Mothers of Multiples Support Club - Chester, Lancaster, York counties
  
• My Sister's House - agency for victims of domestic violence serving Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester counties
  
  
• New Morning Foundation - works to limit teen pregnancies
  –  TellThemSC.org - online advocacy reaching rural areas
  
• Nurturing Center - Columbia - working with abused and neglected children - site best viewed with Internet Explorer
  
  
• Palmetto Place Children's Emergency Shelter - Columbia
• Parenting Partners - working to prevent abuse and neglect of children in Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland counties
  
• Parents Anonymous of South Carolina
  
• Parentwise - network of parenting services in Beaufort, Florence, Greenville, Lexington, York counties
  
• Pendleton Place Children's Shelter - Greenville
• Piedmont Wilderness Institute - Clinton - residential program working with young offenders
  
• Prevent Child Abuse South Carolina
  
• Promise Land Ministries - Galivant's Ferry - helping troubled youth, needy adults
  
  
• Richland County Court Appointed Special Advocates - volunteers being the voice of children in court
  
  
• Safe Harbor - Greenville - domestic violence shelter
  
• SAFE-Homes Rape Crisis Coalition - Spartanburg
  
• Safe Moves - Charleston - family violence resource center
• Safe Passage - services to assist victims of domestic violence, sexual trauma, child abuse in Chester, Lancaster, Union, York counties
  
• Samaritan's Well - Lexington - women's & children's shelter
  
• Sea Haven - North Myrtle Beach - helping homeless youth in Horry County
  
• Sexual Trauma & Counseling Center - Greenwood - working with adults, children, and families in Abbeville, Greenwood, and Laurens counties
  
• Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands - Columbia
• South Carolina Association of Children's Homes and Family Services
  
• South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
  
• South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families - works to reduce poverty through fatherhood engagement
  
• South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
  
• South Carolina Council on Adoptable Children
  
• South Carolina Volunteer Guardian ad Litem Program - voices for children in foster care
  –  By county - click on your county for local program's website
  
• South Carolina Youth Advocate Program - youth programs and services to promote family stability
  
• State Office of Victim Assistance - SC Governor's Office
  –  South Carolina Victim Assistance Academy
  
  
• Tara Hall - Georgetown - residential school for troubled boys
  
  
• Upstate Moms - family-friendly events, hot topics in parenting, Q&A
  
  
• The Village Group - youth advocacy
• Voices for South Carolina's Children - child advocacy
  
  
• Waccamaw Youth Center - Conway - residential center
• Windwood Farm Home for Children - Awendaw - therapeutic intervention for abused and neglected boys
• WINGS for kids - social and emotional learning after school
  
• WomensLaw.org - legal information for women living with or escaping domestic violence - use links for SC-specific info
  
• Worldwide Marriage Encounter of South Carolina - weekend retreats