Official State Website: http://www.sc.gov

President and Vice President: www.whitehouse.gov

State Representative: http://www.house.gov/

Senators: http://www.senate.gov/

Local Child Abuse Number: 803-898-7318

Children's Rights Foundation:
1-800-329-KIDS
http://www.preventchildabusenow.org/

National Child Traumatic Stress Network:
http://www.nctsnet.org/nccts/nav.do?pid=abt_ntwk

National Crime Victims Center
Contact: Benjamin Saunders
Phone: (843) 792-2945
Email: saunders@musc.edu
Web: http://www.musc.edu/cvc/

Shelters

Area Rescue Mission
Rt. 1, Box 228
Florence, SC 29502
Phone: (803)346-5042

A New Beginning at a Christian Life Center
2225 Old Two Notch Road
Lexington, SC 29072
Phone: 803-356-6093

Crisis Ministries Men's Shelter
573 Meeting Street
Charleston, SC 29403
Phone: 843-723-9477
FAX: 843-577-6667

Crisis Ministries Family Center
49 Walnut Street
Charleston, SC 29403
Phone: 843-723-9477, Ext. 17
FAX: 843-577-6667

Good Samaritan Mission
3371 Cochise Street N.
Charleston, SC 29405
Phone: (803)747-4309

Hannah House
1726 Sumter Street
Columbia, SC 29201-2548
Phone: 803-771-4357

Low Country Shelter Association
4825 S. Highway 41
Mullins, SC 29574

Miracle Hill Ministries
571 West Washington Street
Greenville, SC 29602
Phone: 864-268-4357
FAX: 864-583-9139

Miracle Life Mission
189 North Forest Street
Spartanburg, SC 29301
Phone: 864-583-1628
FAX: 864-583-1628

Project Hope, Community Services & Shelter
1787 Bass Drive
P. O. Box 37
Santee, SC 29142
Phone: 803-854-5231
FAX: 803-854-9301

Women's Shelters

Domestic Violence:
http://www.sccadvasa.org
http://www.sboard.org/resources.htm?

National Crime Victims Center:
Web: http://www.musc.edu/cvc/

South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
P.O. Box 7776
Columbia, SC 29202
(803) 256-2900 Fax: (803) 256-1030
(800) 260-9293 Nationwide
Website: www.sccadvasa.org

National Domestic Violence Hotline:
http://www.ndvh.org/help/help_in_area.html

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence:
http://www.ncadv.org

National Network to End Domestic Violence:
http://www.nnedv.org

Directory of Women's Shelters:
http://wedirectyou.com/womennmr/women.htm

Sounding Board Counseling Center:
http://www.sboard.org then click on shelters in your State

Community Action Program:
http://www.grass-roots.org/usa/scua.shtml
http://www.scacap.org/acafiliates.htm
www.ncaf.org/linkcaas.htm

Head Start Program:
http://www.chtop.org/QICDS/SCPage.htm
http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/resourcekit/HeadStart/southcarolina.html
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/hsb/hsweb/index.jsp
http://www.headstartinfo.org/infocenter/ehs_tkit1.htm

State Listings of Charities

Federal Trade Commission: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/tmarkg/charity.htm

Office of the Secretary of State
Public Charities Division
P.O. Box 11350
Columbia, SC 29211
803-734-1604
http://www.scsos.com/

Offfice of the Attorney General
Charitable Trust Division
P. O. Box 11549
Columbia, SC 29211
803-734-3970
http://www.scattorneygeneral.org/

Search by State

Family and Youth Services:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/fysb/

Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/

Government Grants:
http://www.firstgov.gov/
http://www.grants.gov/
http://www.govbenefits.gov/govbenefits_en.portal

Housing Grants:
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/communitydevelopment/programs/
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ocs/csbg/

Health Care: For the Uninsured
http://ask.hrsa.gov/

Help finding healthcare in your area:
http://www.healthfinder.gov/healthcare/

Emergency Food and Shelter:
http://www.efsp.unitedway.org/EFSP/WC.DLL?EFSP~FundedStates