Budget Period: January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2001
Adult Victims of Sexual Assault
SAFE Homes--Rape Crisis Coalition 1W0201
158 West Main Street Spartanburg, SC 29306
Contact: Lynn Hawkins 864-583-9803
Executive Director Fax 864-583-9611 Email: [email protected] Shelter Repairs
This project will allow for repairs to the plumbing system and interior lighting in the shelter as well as to provide security fencing around the shelter. This project serves Spartanburg, Cherokee, and Union counties.
Alliance for Community Trust 1W0202
25 Mills Avenue Greenville, SC 29605
Contact: Donna Roy 864-467-3633
Executive Director Fax 864-467-3474
Email: [email protected] Adolescent Project and Golden Strip Outreach Program
This project will provide furniture for adolescents to sit on during their support group each week after school. This project serves Greenville County.
Grand Strand Community Against Rape 1W0203
P. O. Box 613
Myrtle Beach, SC 29578
Contact: Shirley Wright 843-448-3180 Executive Director Fax 843-448-3896
Email: [email protected] Emergency Sexual Assault Services
The goals of this project are to install outside motion detector lights, deadbolts, and a door sign so that evening group therapy participants can feel safer upon their approach to, and while in, the building. This project serves Horry and Georgetown Counties.
This project will allow for the counseling of sexual assault victims, presentations to the community regarding sexual assault, the creation of a support group for survivors, and memberships for the therapist to societies which will better enable them to assist their clients with up-to-date counseling strategies. This project serves Kershaw and Lee Counties.
This project allows for the purchase of a laptop computer so that shelter advocates may go into the field and provide community presentations and trainings for professionals, volunteers, and staff. This project serves Beaufort, Jasper, Colleton and Hampton counties.
The goal of this project is to purchase a vehicle to provide safe transportation for shelter residents. This project serves Marion, Chesterfield, Darlington, Marlboro, Dillon, Williamsburg and Florence counties.
Sistercare, Inc. 1W0207
P. O. Box 1029 Columbia, SC 29202
Contact: Nancy Barton 803-926-0505 Executive Director Fax 803-794-0098
Email: [email protected] Community Education, Outreach, and Security
This project provides outreach services to victims of spousal abuse, and also provides a security system for the local domestic violence shelter’s administrative building. This project serves Richland, Lexington, Kershaw, Fairfield and Newberry Counties.
Child Abuse and Neglect Services
Foothills Alliance 1W0208
608 North McDuffie Street Anderson, SC 29621
Contact: Mary Harris Skeen 864-231-7273 Executive Director Fax 864-231-8515
Email: [email protected] Courage Quest: Healing in the Midst of Nature
This project provides a one-day camp for 25 victims of child abuse. The camp will serve as a therapeutic, experiential learning camp for children ages 6-16 who have been physically or sexually abused, with a celebration event in the evening to bring together families, agencies, and victims. This project serves Anderson and Oconee Counties.
Carolina Youth Development Center 1W0209
5055 Lackawanna Boulevard North Charleston, SC 29405
Contact: Bonnie Bella 843-744-5358
CEO Fax 843-529-2933
Assessing Early Development of Abused/Neglected Children
This project seeks to assess children in emergency care for early childhood developmental delays due in part to abuse/neglect. The Center then develops curricula designed for abused and neglected children in the transient setting of the shelter. This project serves Charleston, Berkeley, and Dorchester Counties.
McCormick Children’s Home 1W0210
Route 1, Box 152 C McCormick, SC 29835
Contact: Mamie Lee 803-391-2931
Executive Director Fax 803-391-2933 Children’s Safety and Transportation Program
The goals of this project are to purchase a mini-bus for transporting abused and neglected children to school, appointments, and field trips; to purchase a fence for the playground; and to purchase concrete and mulch to improve the conditions of the playground. This project serves McCormick, Abbeville, Saluda, Edgefield, and Newberry counties.
This project will allow for purchase of a bus so the Victim Advocate at the Police Department may transport victims of crime. This project serves the City of Forest Acres.
This project will provide group treatment for victims of crime such as assault and battery, kidnapping and robbery. This project serves the City of Spartanburg.
The goal of this project is to provide a vehicle to be used to transport victims of crime. This project serves the City of Greer.
Victim Advocate Equipment
This project will allow for the purchase of a vehicle, computer, and other start-up equipment for the Victim Advocate at the Police Department. This project serves the City of Summerton.
Florence County Sheriff’s Office 1W0221
6719 Friendfield Road Effingham, SC 29541
Contact: Michael D. Illes 843-665-2121 Operations Support Director Fax 843-665-4811 Criminal Domestic Violence Support
This project allows travel costs for the Victim Advocate at the Sheriff’s Office so he or she may attend state and national conferences on Criminal Domestic Violence. This project serves Florence County.
Columbia College Police Department 1W0222
1301 Columbia College Drive Columbia, SC 29203
Contact: Mark Fallaw 803-786-4139
Chief of Police Fax 803-253-6283 Criminal Justice Training
This project allows travel costs for the Victim Advocate at the Police Department so he or she may attend state and national conferences on Victim Advocacy. This project also allows the purchase of a computer for the advocate. This project serves Richland County.
Training
SC Office of the Attorney General 1W0223 PO Box 11549
Columbia, SC 29211
Contact: Russell Brown 803-734-4139
Grants Compliance Manager Fax 803-253-6283 Criminal Justice Training
This project will provide two 2-day statewide seminars for Summary Court Judges and six 2-day training seminars to the SCDPPPS staff regarding domestic violence. Seminars and training will cover all five SCDPPPS regions throughout the state. This project serves the entire state.
South Carolina Victim Assistance Network 1W0224
1900 Broad River Road, Suite 200
Columbia, SC 29210
Contact: Veronica Swain 803-750-1200
CEO Fax 803-750-3003
Email: [email protected] Regional Resource Roundtables
This project provides training to local, county, regional, and statewide victim assistance professionals on current victimization laws and victim agency coalition building through six roundtables throughout the state. This project serves the entire state.
Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists (ATSS) 1W02225 7338 Broad River Road
Irmo, SC 29063
Contact: Ritchie Tidwell 803-781-1096
Director Fax 803-781-3899
ATSS Victim Impact Project
The goal of this project is to provide three professional development training seminars for victim assistance providers addressing service, response, and treatment to crime victims, and the publication of 12 victim ‘self-help’ resources providing education and information to victims and their families. This project serves the entire state.
SC Commission on Prosecution Coordination 1W0226
P.O. Box 11561 Columbia, SC 29211
Contact: Paula Calhoon 803-343-0765
Project Director Fax 803-343-0766 Training for Working with Underserved Populations
The goal of this project is to provide three trainings to victim assistance professionals providing information on how to better serve victims and witnesses in underserved populations such as:
vulnerable adults, people with disabilities and special needs, children and Hispanic persons. This project serves the entire state.
Previously Underserved
SC Office of the Attorney General 1W0211 P.O. Box 11549
Columbia, SC 29211
Contact: Russell Brown 803-734-4139
Grants Compliance Manager Fax 803-253-6283 Elder and Vulnerable Adult Abuse
This project educates elderly and vulnerable adults, law enforcement, prosecutors, long-term caregivers facility staff, and other agencies on consumer fraud and financial exploitation by con-artists. This project serves the entire state.
This project seeks to close the language barrier with the growing Hispanic population in Abbeville, Greenwood, and Laurens Counties by providing an on-call interpreter who will assist sexual assault victims. This project serves Greenwood, Laurens and Abbeville counties.
The goal of this project is to provide training and education to 11 counties in the Lowcountry regarding victimization. Topics discussed will include child abuse and neglect, elder abuse, and domestic violence. This project serves Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Georgetown, Hampton, Horry, Jasper, Marion and Williamsburg counties.
The goal of this project is to develop a Community Resource Manual and Child Safety Plan Brochure to be distributed to the community. This project serves Orangeburg and Calhoun counties.
SC Department of Natural Resources 1W0215
1000 Assembly Street, Dennis Building
Columbia, SC 29202
Contact: Van McCarty 803-734-4002
Project Director Fax 803-734-3962 Statewide Victim Assistance Office
This project provides start-up equipment for a statewide Victim Advocate and nine volunteers for the Department of Natural Resources. This project serves the entire state.
Palmetto Legal Services 1W0216
2109 Bull Street Columbia, SC 29202
Contact: Johnny Simpson 803-799-9668 Executive Director Fax 803-799-9420 Legal Services for Elder Abuse Victims
The goal of this project is to provide community education to the elderly of the potential of economic exploitation and fraud, as well as connecting victims of these and other forms of elder abuse to the proper agencies where they may receive help. This project serves Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg and Calhoun counties.