Alston Wilkes Society - Columbia - provides offenders, former offenders, at-risk youth, homeless veterans, and families in crisis tools to become productive citizens
AMIkids Piedmont - Clinton - residential program working with young offenders
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The Bair Foundation - Charleston, Columbia, Greenville - provides training and support to families becoming foster parents
Barnabas Horse Foundation for Children - Murrells Inlet - provides healing through fellowship with horses for children 4-17 recovering from physical abuse, sexual abuse, trauma
Be a Mentor - North Charleston - connects kids with adult mentors
Beyond Abuse - Greenwood - working with adults, children, and families in Abbeville, Greenwood, and Laurens counties
Big Brothers Big Sisters
This nationwide mentoring program that matches adult volunteers and single-parent children ages 6-16.
– Greater Columbia - Lexington, Richland counties
– Lowcountry - Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester counties
– Upstate - Greenville, Spartanburg counties
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Caleb's Dragonfly Dreams - Myrtle Beach organization provides positive events and activities to abandoned, abused and neglected children that reside in shelters and group homes
Carolina Youth Development Center - Charleston - healing services for children who have experienced physical or sexual abuse, neglect, abandonment, or have severe emotional disorders
Child Abuse Prevention Association - Beaufort - provides parents, children and caregivers with necessary skills, knowledge and values to prevent child abuse and neglect
Children's Attention Home - Rock Hill - emergency and long-term residential facility for children birth-21
– Crossroads - program for youth ages 17-20 who are homeless, unaccompanied, or at risk of becoming homeless providing free housing, clothing, meals, health care, life skill coaching, educational support and more for up to 2 years
Children's Chance - Columbia-based - helps families across SC 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
Compassionate Friends - Greenville - provides support and aid for bereaved parents and families
Cumbee Center to Assist Abused Persons - Aiken, Barnwell, Edgefield - works to support and empower domestic violence and sexual violence victims and their families by providing services, reducing the tolerance of abuse, and advocating for social change
Defenders For Children - Greenville - works to prevent child abuse through projects that raise community awareness, educate adults and children, and increase community involvement
Family Justice Center - Georgetown - helps victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse
Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina - Charleston-based - provides education, counseling services, medical care, social support, and a safe haven for young pregnant and parenting mothers in need across South Carolina
Foothills Family Resources - Slater - operates a food pantry, provides monetary help for families in crisis, teaches parenting skills
Foothills Care Center - Clemson and Seneca - provides education, benevolence, and limited medical obstetrical services
Fostering Great Ideas - Greenville - improves the experience for children in foster care by building dignity, personal relationships, and sense of community
Healing Hurts - Ridgeville - transitional maternity home providing residential services to women of all ages as well as victim advocacy for domestic violence and sexual assault victims
Julie Valentine Center - Greenville - nonprofit organization provides free, confidential services to sexual assault and child abuse survivors and their families
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Killingsworth Home - Columbia - transitional home for women recovering from crises
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Little Steps - Greenville - provides a non-judgmental environment of encouragement and accountability for teen and young parents in the Greenville County area by offering classes, peer groups, one-on-one mentoring, and parent-child enrichment activities
Low Country Orphan Relief - Charleston - meets the needs of abandoned, abused, and neglected children and intervenes where government aid ends
Lutheran Services Carolinas - Columbia - places children in foster and adoptive homes, provides comprehensive services to adults with special needs, aids veterans in regaining their independence, helps refugees acclimate to life in a new country
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My Sister's House - Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester counties - assists victims of domestic violence and their children
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National Youth Advocate Program - North Charleston - partners with various governmental and private agencies throughout the state all working together to improve the lives of children and families
New Foundations Home for Children - Anderson - New Foundations is a private, nonprofit treatment agency caring for emotionally troubled children and their families. Services include Group Homes and the Family Counseling Center of Anderson.
Nurture Home - Aiken - Mental Health America of Aiken County's program to assist single women and mothers who are homeless and often the victims of domestic violence
Nurturing Center - Columbia - working with abused and neglected children
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One Touch Transformation - Florence - nonprofit organization that raises awareness for sexual abuse and supports other organizations that stand against it
Pee Dee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence - Florence-based - works for the reduction of sexual assault, family violence, and child abuse and assists its victims in Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Marion, Marlboro, and Williamsburg counties
Pendleton Place Children's Shelter - Greenville - offers a place of safety and comfort for children hurt by abuse and neglect through prevention, assessment, and intervention
Safe Harbor - Grenville - emergency domestic violence shelter provides counseling, legal advocacy, and transitional housing, as well as community outreach and teen dating violence education in Greenville, Pickens, Anderson, and Oconee counties
SAFE Homes Rape Crisis Coalition - Spartanburg - serves victims of domestic violence and their dependent children in Spartanburg, Cherokee, Union counties
Safe Moves - Charleston - family violence resource center
Safe Passage - Rock Hill - 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
State Office of Victim Assistance - Columbia - SC Governor's Office - provides compensation to victims of crime and train victim service providers
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Tara Hall - Georgetown - residential school for troubled boys
Thrive SC - Mount Pleasant - provides transitional housing and holistic resources necessary to build emotional and financial independence for survivors of domestic violence
WINGS for Kids - Charleston - social and emotional learning after school
WomensLaw.org - legal information for women living with or escaping domestic violence - use links for SC-specific info
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YWCA Upper Lowlands - Sumter - The YWCA Upper Lowlands works with victims of domestic violence and is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. Serves Sumter, Lee, Clarendon, and Kershaw counties.