South Carolina – 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 Boys Home - Columbia - residential treatment program for boys 13-19
  
• 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 in Crisis - Summerville - aids abused and neglected children
  
• 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
  
• Coastal Rescue Mission - Loris - shelter for women with children
  
• Colleton Youth Outreach for Victim Assistance - Walterboro
• Collins Home & Family Ministries - Seneca - family support system for children ages 3-18
  
• Community Juvenile Arbitration
  
• 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
  
  
• 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
• 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
  
• Lowcountry Moms' Connection - support group for mothers in the Charleston area
  
• Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas
  
  
• MUMMS Club of South Carolina - Mothers of Multiples Support Club - Chester, Lancaster, York counties
  
• My Sister's House, Inc. - 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
  
• 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
• 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 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