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• Aiken Youth Empowerment - Aiken - sex education promoting healthy decision making
  
• 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
  
• Caring Friend of Myrtle Beach - Myrtle Beach - support and aid for bereaved parents, families
  
• Carolina Family Services - Greenville - provides guidance for families with at-risk children
  
• Carolina Youth Development Center - Charleston - healing services for children who have experienced physical or sexual abuse, neglect, abandonment, or have severe emotional disorders
  
• Center for Child and Family Studies - USC, Columbia - assists parents of 3-7 year olds who show challenging behaviors
  
• 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-21
  – Crossroads - program for homeless, unaccompanied and at-risk youth 17-20 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
  
• Children's Trust of South Carolina - Columbia-based - offers information to parents concerning their child's education
  
• 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 - 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
  

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• Darkness to Light - Charleston - fighting child sexual abuse
  
• Dee Norton Child Advocacy Center - Charleston - provides services for child abuse victims and their families
  
• Defenders For Children - Greenville - works to prevent child abuse through projects that raise community awareness, educate adults and children, and increase community involvement
  
• Dickerson Children's Advocacy Center - West Columbia - helps physically and sexually abused children ages 0-18
  
• Domestic Violence Assistance - Mauldin - provide household furnishings to domestic violence victims and their children
  

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• Epworth Children's Home - Columbia - residential home for children ages 4–18
  

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• Family Connection of South Carolina - Columbia-based - support network for families of children with special needs
  
• 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
  

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• HALOS, Helping And Lending Outreach Support - Charleston - helps abused and neglected victims served by the Charleston County Department of Social Services
  
• 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
  
• Helping Hands - Aiken - emergency children's shelter
  
• Helping Hands of Clemson - foster home and emergency shelter for abused and neglected children
  
• Heritage Keepers - Charleston-based - statewide group promotes sexual abstinence until marriage
  
• Hope Center for Children - Spartanburg - working to prevent and help victims of child abuse and neglect
  
• Hopeful Horizons - Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper counties - children's advocacy, domestic violence and rape crisis center providing safety, hope and healing to survivors through evidence-based therapy, outreach, prevention and education
  

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• Institute for Families in Society - Columbia - initiative of USC that seeks to enhance family well-being
  

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• 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
  
• Lowcountry Crisis Pregnancy Center - North Charleston - provides medical services, referrals, and assistance with unplanned pregnancies
  
• Lowcountry Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy - Greater Charleston area - works with at-risk children
  
• 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.
  
• New Morning Foundation - Columbia - works to limit teen pregnancies
  – Tell Them - online advocacy to educate young women
  
• 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
  

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• Palmetto Place Children's Emergency Shelter - Columbia - helps abused and neglected children and unaccompanied teens
  
• 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
  

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• Richland County Court Appointed Special Advocates - Columbia - volunteers being the voice of children in court
  

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• 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
  
• Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands - Columbia - rape crisis center helping children and adults
  
• South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy - Columbia-based - combating high rates of teen pregnancy in SC
  
• South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families - Columbia-based - works to reduce poverty through fatherhood engagement
  
• South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault - Columbia-based - statewide coalition made up of 23 domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy programs in SC
  
• South Carolina Volunteer Guardian ad Litem Program - voices for children in foster care
  – By county - select your county from pull-down menu
  
• 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
  
• Specialized Alternatives for Families and Youth - services for youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems
  
• 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
  

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• Upstate Family Resource Center - Boiling Springs - strengthening families in Boiling Springs and Chesnee
  

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• The Village Group - Georgetown - youth advocacy through literacy, recreation and community involvement
  

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• Waccamaw Youth Center - Conway - residential center for abused, neglected, and abandoned youth ages 12-21
  
• Windwood Family Services - Awendaw - therapeutic intervention for abused and neglected boys
  
• 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.