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SC Family Support, Protection Organizations

• Adoption Coalition for Education and Support
• Aiken Teen Pregnancy Prevention
• Alston Wilkes Society
  
  
• 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
• Child Abuse Prevention Association - Beaufort - provides parents, children and caregivers with necessary skills, knowledge and values to prevent child abuse and neglect
  
• 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
  
• Children's Trust of South Carolina - offers information to parents concerning their child's education
  
• 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
  
• 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
  
• 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
  
  
• Glenn Springs Academy - Pauline - residential center for boys ages 10-21
  
• Governor's Commission on Women
• 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
  
• Hope Center for Children - Spartanburg - working to prevent and help victims of child abuse and neglect
  
• Horry County Teens And Infants Shelter Home - Loris - helping young women in crisis as well as homeless teenage girls that are pregnant
  
  
• Institute for Families in Society - University of South Carolina - seeks to enhance family well-being
  
  
• John de la Howe School - McCormick - residential center for boys and girls ages 12-21
  
• Julie Valentine Center
  
• 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
  – Tell Them - online advocacy to educate young women
  
• Nurturing Center - Columbia - working with abused and neglected children - site best viewed with Internet Explorer
  
  
• Palmetto Place Children's Emergency Shelter - Columbia
• Parents Anonymous of South Carolina
  
• Pendleton Place Children's Shelter - Greenville
• Piedmont Wilderness Institute - Clinton - residential program working with young offenders
  
  
• 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
  
• 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 Blue Ribbon Council - Charleston - raising awareness of child abuse and neglect in the Charleston area
  
• 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 Volunteer Guardian ad Litem Program - voices for children in foster care
  – By county - click on your county for local info
  
• South Carolina Youth Advocate Program - youth programs and services to promote family stability
  
• South Carolina Youth ChalleNGe Academy - Eastover - residential program for at-risk boys and girls ages 16-18½
  
• Southeastern Children's Home - Duncan - residential services for abused, neglected or troubled boys and girls ages 11-21
  
• Standing Against Violence Everyday - Mauldin - provides relief to families and individuals affected by domestic violence
  
• State Office of Victim Assistance - SC Governor's Office
  – South Carolina Victim Assistance Academy
  
  
• Tara Hall - Georgetown - residential school for troubled boys
  
• Teens Before Parents - Spartanburg - educating teens to appreciate their youth
  
  
• Upstate Family Resource Center - strengthening families in Boiling Springs and Chesnee
  
• Upstate Moms - family-friendly events, hot topics in parenting, Q&A
  
  
• The Village Group - youth 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
  
  
• York Place - The Episcopal Church Home for Children