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Provides free and confidential 24- hour emergency services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault; offers crisis and long term counseling, temporary emergency shelter, legal advocacy, referrals to social service agencies, support groups, emotional support, and community outreach programs.
Hours: Mon - Fri 9 AM to 5 PM
Foothills Alliance offers child advocacy, sexual trauma center – emergency room support, law enforcement agencies and court proceedings, counseling and education.
Provides free and confidential 24- hour emergency services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault; offers crisis and long term counseling, temporary emergency shelter, legal advocacy, referrals to social service agencies, support groups, emotional support, and community outreach programs.
Hours: Mon - Fri 9 AM to 5 PM
Hopeful Horizons is a children’s advocacy, domestic violence and rape crisis center. The following services are offered: shelter, legal assistance, court advocacy, adult counseling, children’s counseling, case management services and family support to families on both in-house and outreach basis, mental health treatment, victim advocacy, and forensic interviews, crisis counseling, and law enforcement partnerships and educational programs. Hopeful Horizons’ Legal Department provides survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault with free legal representation. This includes appearances in Family Court for matters related to divorce, custody, visitation, child support, separate maintenance and support and equitable distribution of matters. They also assist with the filing of Orders of Protection and Restraining Orders. Additionally survivors are provided with legal advice and representation in other civil court matters, as well as accompaniment by our legal staff to criminal and bond hearings. Hopeful Horizons serves Allendale, Beaufort, Colleton, Jasper and Hampton Counties.
Hopeful Horizons is a children’s advocacy, domestic violence and rape crisis center. The following services are offered: shelter, legal assistance, court advocacy, adult counseling, children’s counseling, case management services and family support to families on both in-house and outreach basis, mental health treatment, victim advocacy, and forensic interviews, crisis counseling, and law enforcement partnerships and educational programs. Hopeful Horizons’ Legal Department provides survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault with free legal representation. This includes appearances in Family Court for matters related to divorce, custody, visitation, child support, separate maintenance and support and equitable distribution of matters. They also assist with the filing of Orders of Protection and Restraining Orders. Additionally survivors are provided with legal advice and representation in other civil court matters, as well as accompaniment by our legal staff to criminal and bond hearings. Hopeful Horizons serves Allendale, Beaufort, Colleton, Jasper and Hampton Counties.
My Sister’s House offers a 24-hour crisis line, emergency shelter, clothing, transportation, help purchasing medications, education, court advocacy and counseling. Serving Charleston, Dorchester and Berkley counties.
Origin SC’s 16-week program serves individuals who have experienced violence in the home. Treatment is both evidence-based and trauma-informed. Topics covered in the program include: Safety Planning; Power & Control vs. Equality; Cycle of Violence; Effects on Children; Communication Styles; Self-Esteem & Self-Care; Financial Literacy; & Your Rights.
Hours: Mon - Fri 8:30 AM to 4 PM
Available evenings & weekends by appointment.
Pee Dee Coalition is a volunteer organization dedicated to the reduction of sexual assault, family violence, and child abuse and to the needs of its victims.The Coalition now operates in eight counties: Florence, Darlington, Marion, Dillon, Chesterfield, Marlboro, Williamsburg, and most recently, Sumter. Programs and services include: 24-hour crisis intervention help line, emergency shelter, transitional shelter, individual and group counseling, medical, legal, and criminal justice advocacy and accompaniment, referrals and community education. Satellite Centers — county-based centers across the region to provide comprehensive onsite services to victims and their families.
Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands (STSM) offers 24-hour crisis intervention through hotline and hospital response, crisis counseling, individual short-term counseling, group counseling, personal advocacy, and legal advocacy to survivors of sexual assault and abuse and education about sexual trauma issues to the Midlands. STSM also provides the survivor with emotional support and accompaniment throughout the criminal justice proceedings including (but not limited to) assisting the survivor in filing a police report, court accompaniment, assisting survivors with their Victim Impact Statements, and contacting law enforcement on behalf of survivor with survivor’s consent. These services are all confidential and free of charge. Serving Richland, Lexington, Newberry and Sumter counties.
Pee Dee Coalition is a volunteer organization dedicated to the reduction of sexual assault, family violence, and child abuse and to the needs of its victims.The Coalition now operates in eight counties: Florence, Darlington, Marion, Dillon, Chesterfield, Marlboro, Williamsburg, and most recently, Sumter. Programs and services include: 24-hour crisis intervention help line, emergency shelter, transitional shelter, individual and group counseling, medical, legal, and criminal justice advocacy and accompaniment, referrals and community education. Satellite Centers — county-based centers across the region to provide comprehensive onsite services to victims and their families.
Pee Dee Coalition is a volunteer organization dedicated to the reduction of sexual assault, family violence, and child abuse and to the needs of its victims.The Coalition now operates in eight counties: Florence, Darlington, Marion, Dillon, Chesterfield, Marlboro, Williamsburg, and most recently, Sumter. Programs and services include: 24-hour crisis intervention help line, emergency shelter, transitional shelter, individual and group counseling, medical, legal, and criminal justice advocacy and accompaniment, referrals and community education. Satellite Centers — county-based centers across the region to provide comprehensive onsite services to victims and their families.
Pee Dee Coalition is a volunteer organization dedicated to the reduction of sexual assault, family violence, and child abuse and to the needs of its victims.The Coalition now operates in eight counties: Florence, Darlington, Marion, Dillon, Chesterfield, Marlboro, Williamsburg, and most recently, Sumter. Programs and services include: 24-hour crisis intervention help line, emergency shelter, transitional shelter, individual and group counseling, medical, legal, and criminal justice advocacy and accompaniment, referrals and community education. Satellite Centers — county-based centers across the region to provide comprehensive onsite services to victims and their families.
Provides free and confidential 24-hour emergency services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault; offers crisis and long term counseling, temporary emergency shelter, legal advocacy, referrals to social service agencies, support groups, emotional support, and community outreach programs.
Hours: Mon - Fri 9 AM to 5 PM
The Florence County Sexual Assault and Family Violence Center is part of the Pee Dee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Assault Crisis Centers. If you have trouble reaching one of the satellite centers, please contact the Florence County Sexual Assault and Family Violence Center at (843) 669-4694 for available services and assistance.
Pee Dee Coalition is a volunteer organization dedicated to the reduction of sexual assault, family violence, and child abuse and to the needs of its victims.The Coalition now operates in eight counties: Florence, Darlington, Marion, Dillon, Chesterfield, Marlboro, Williamsburg, and most recently, Sumter. Programs and services include: 24-hour crisis intervention help line, emergency shelter, transitional shelter, individual and group counseling, medical, legal, and criminal justice advocacy and accompaniment, referrals and community education. Satellite Centers — county-based centers across the region to provide comprehensive onsite services to victims and their families.
Pee Dee Coalition is a volunteer organization dedicated to the reduction of sexual assault, family violence, and child abuse and to the needs of its victims.The Coalition now operates in eight counties: Florence, Darlington, Marion, Dillon, Chesterfield, Marlboro, Williamsburg, and most recently, Sumter. Programs and services include: 24-hour crisis intervention help line, emergency shelter, transitional shelter, individual and group counseling, medical, legal, and criminal justice advocacy and accompaniment, referrals and community education. Satellite Centers — county-based centers across the region to provide comprehensive onsite services to victims and their families.
The Family Justice Center is a collaboration of community partners and agencies working together to provide a safe and welcoming environment for the victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse. Offering emergency shelter, safety planing, court advocacy, case management, child witness assessments, parenting classes and support groups. Serving Georgetown and Horry counties.
Hours: Mon - Fri 9 AM to 5 PM
Compass of Carolina offers: adult counseling; anger management program; child & adolescent counseling; domestic violence intervention: victims’ program & batterers’ treatment program; representative payee program.
The Julie Valentine Center is an organization that provides free, confidential services to victims of sexual and child abuse. Services are extended to the survivor’s families. Services offered include: child advocacy; intervention during rape crisis; adult therapy; programs for caregivers; and education programs.
Safe Harbor provides emergency shelter, 24 hr crisis help line, counseling, support groups and transitional housing services to victims of domestic violence and their children. Serving Greenville, Anderson, Oconee, Pickens Counties.
The Beyond Abuse program offers a 24 hour emergency room on-call support, legal advocacy, counseling and education. Beyond Abuse serves adults who have been a victim of sexual violence and children who have been a victim of child physical and/or sexual abuse and reside in Abbeville, Greenwood and Laurens Counties.
Meg’s House offers emergency shelter, transitional housing, food, clothing, counseling (individual, group), support groups for children, referrals to other social service agencies, legal advocacy, transportation, case management, parenting and basic life skills classes. Serving McCormick, Edgefield, and Greenwood counties.
The Family Justice Center is a collaboration of community partners and agencies working together to provide a safe and welcoming environment for the victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse. Offering emergency shelter, safety planing, court advocacy, case management, child witness assessments, parenting classes and support groups. Serving Georgetown and Horry counties.
Hours: Mon - Fri 9 AM to 5 PM
The Rape Crisis Center provides a 24-hour hotline to address the needs of those who have experienced sexual victimization. Staff advocates offer crisis intervention, emotional support, and information and referrals to survivors and their loved ones. The Center provides community education programs, short-term counseling, therapist-facilitated support groups, and special events to promote a creative means of healing. Services are free and confidential and available regardless of whether the victimization occurred several hours or many years ago.
The Family Resource Center is dedicated to eradicating child abuse, sexual violence, and teen pregnancy in Kershaw & Lee Counties. Serving all victims of violence, including men, women and children, and their non-offending friends and family members. Services include 24-hour crisis hotline; individual & family counseling; hospital accompaniment; legal & personal advocacy; and prevention education/outreach.
The Palmetto Citizens Against Sexual Assault and Children’s Advocacy Center offers: 24 hour On-Call telephone counseling service (available to victims / families), support groups, referrals to long -term counseling and support agencies, medical forensic exams (children), information on legal proceedings, accompaniment service, and Children’s Advocacy Center. Serving Chester, Fairfield and Lancaster counties.
The Beyond Abuse program offers a 24 hour emergency room on-call support, legal advocacy, counseling and education. Beyond Abuse serves adults who have been a victim of sexual violence and children who have been a victim of child physical and/or sexual abuse and reside in Abbeville, Greenwood and Laurens Counties.
Safe Home provides 24-hour services for victims of domestic violence. Serving Abbeville, Laurens and Saluda Counties.
Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands (STSM) offers 24-hour crisis intervention through hotline and hospital response, crisis counseling, individual short-term counseling, group counseling, personal advocacy, and legal advocacy to survivors of sexual assault and abuse and education about sexual trauma issues to the Midlands. STSM also provides the survivor with emotional support and accompaniment throughout the criminal justice proceedings including (but not limited to) assisting the survivor in filing a police report, court accompaniment, assisting survivors with their Victim Impact Statements, and contacting law enforcement on behalf of survivor with survivor’s consent. These services are all confidential and free of charge. Serving Richland, Lexington, Newberry and Sumter counties.
Pee Dee Coalition is a volunteer organization dedicated to the reduction of sexual assault, family violence, and child abuse and to the needs of its victims.The Coalition now operates in eight counties: Florence, Darlington, Marion, Dillon, Chesterfield, Marlboro, Williamsburg, and most recently, Sumter. Programs and services include: 24-hour crisis intervention help line, emergency shelter, transitional shelter, individual and group counseling, medical, legal, and criminal justice advocacy and accompaniment, referrals and community education. Satellite Centers — county-based centers across the region to provide comprehensive onsite services to victims and their families.
Pee Dee Coalition is a volunteer organization dedicated to the reduction of sexual assault, family violence, and child abuse and to the needs of its victims.The Coalition now operates in eight counties: Florence, Darlington, Marion, Dillon, Chesterfield, Marlboro, Williamsburg, and most recently, Sumter. Programs and services include: 24-hour crisis intervention help line, emergency shelter, transitional shelter, individual and group counseling, medical, legal, and criminal justice advocacy and accompaniment, referrals and community education. Satellite Centers — county-based centers across the region to provide comprehensive onsite services to victims and their families.
Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands (STSM) offers 24-hour crisis intervention through hotline and hospital response, crisis counseling, individual short-term counseling, group counseling, personal advocacy, and legal advocacy to survivors of sexual assault and abuse and education about sexual trauma issues to the Midlands. STSM also provides the survivor with emotional support and accompaniment throughout the criminal justice proceedings including (but not limited to) assisting the survivor in filing a police report, court accompaniment, assisting survivors with their Victim Impact Statements, and contacting law enforcement on behalf of survivor with survivor’s consent. These services are all confidential and free of charge. Serving Richland, Lexington, Newberry and Sumter counties.
CASA/Family Systems is a private, not-for-profit organization serving Bamberg, Calhoun and Orangeburg counties whose primary focus is providing support, advocacy, and intervention to individuals and families who have been affected by sexual assault, family violence, and/or child abuse and neglect. Services offered: Sexual Assault Services; Community Domestic Violence Services; Emergency Shelter for Battered Women and their Children; Batterer Intervention Program for Perpetrators of Domestic Violence; Community Advocacy Program; Edisto Children’s Center – A Children’s Advocacy Center.
Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands (STSM) offers 24-hour crisis intervention through hotline and hospital response, crisis counseling, individual short-term counseling, group counseling, personal advocacy, and legal advocacy to survivors of sexual assault and abuse and education about sexual trauma issues to the Midlands. STSM also provides the survivor with emotional support and accompaniment throughout the criminal justice proceedings including (but not limited to) assisting the survivor in filing a police report, court accompaniment, assisting survivors with their Victim Impact Statements, and contacting law enforcement on behalf of survivor with survivor’s consent. These services are all confidential and free of charge. Serving Richland, Lexington, Newberry and Sumter counties.
Sistercare, Inc. offer: HART Program – Sistercare’s Hospital Accompaniment Response Team (HART) is a program that was designed to address the non-medical needs of patients who are presenting with injuries from intimate partner violence; Children’s Counseling Services; Community Support Groups and Individual Counseling Services; Career Development Center; Teen Outreach Program; Community Education and Training; Court Advocacy; Emergency Shelters; 24 Hour Crisis/Service Line; Transitional Housing; Rural Outreach Program. Sistercare offers programs of services for survivors of domestic violence and their children residing in Richland, Lexington, Fairfield, Newberry and Kershaw counties in South Carolina.
Project R.E.S.T., formerly the Safe Homes Rape Crisis Coalition, provides services to victims of domestic in Spartanburg, Cherokee, and Union counties, and victims of sexual assault in Spartanburg and Cherokee counties. Services include: a 24-hour hotline, emergency shelter for up to 60 days for domestic violence victims and their children, hospital accompaniment for sexual assault victims, police and court accompaniment/advocacy, counseling, therapy, case management, assistance in completing protection order petitions, and more.
Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands (STSM) offers 24-hour crisis intervention through hotline and hospital response, crisis counseling, individual short-term counseling, group counseling, personal advocacy, and legal advocacy to survivors of sexual assault and abuse and education about sexual trauma issues to the Midlands. STSM also provides the survivor with emotional support and accompaniment throughout the criminal justice proceedings including (but not limited to) assisting the survivor in filing a police report, court accompaniment, assisting survivors with their Victim Impact Statements, and contacting law enforcement on behalf of survivor with survivor’s consent. These services are all confidential and free of charge. Serving Richland, Lexington, Newberry and Sumter counties.
YWCA of the Upper Lowlands provides 24/7 emergency / residential shelter and safety to domestic violence female victims and their children. Other services include counseling, legal assistance, limited transportation, childcare, and training opportunities for survivor self-sufficiency. Additionally, they provide services for individuals who do not need residential support: 24 Hour Safe House; 24 Hour crisis hotline; Legal Representation Program, Community Services, Victim Trauma Counseling, Victim Online Resources. Through the Legal Advocacy Program, court advocates can help with the following for free: information and assistance related to protective orders, assistance in filing paperwork related to custody, visitation, or child support; accompaniment to interviews with law enforcement and court preparation assistance. Information and referrals to other agencies and resources on the Midlands area also available.
Pee Dee Coalition is a volunteer organization dedicated to the reduction of sexual assault, family violence, and child abuse and to the needs of its victims.The Coalition now operates in eight counties: Florence, Darlington, Marion, Dillon, Chesterfield, Marlboro, Williamsburg, and most recently, Sumter. Programs and services include: 24-hour crisis intervention help line, emergency shelter, transitional shelter, individual and group counseling, medical, legal, and criminal justice advocacy and accompaniment, referrals and community education. Satellite Centers — county-based centers across the region to provide comprehensive onsite services to victims and their families.
Safe Passage, Inc. provides a 24-hour emergency shelter, 24-hour crisis line, advocacy, counseling, and other supportive services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse. Serving York, Chester, Lancaster, and Union counties.
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