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Arc of South Carolina
806 12th Street. West Columbia, SC 29169
Telephone: (803) 748-5020 Fax: (803) 750-8121
Website: www.arcsc.org
Email address: thearc@arcsc.org
Services Available: Advocacy organization that provides information, training and support to children and adults with special needs, including mental retardation and related developmental disabilities, and their families.
Accept military family members. For more information please call the agency or visit the website.
Dream Riders
An accredited NARHA horseback riding program for people with special needs serving
various types of handicapping conditions.
156 Sandy Hill Road, Lexington, SC 29072.
Telephone: (803) 957-7906.
Website: www.dreamrider.org
Email address: dream2@mindspring.com
Services Available: Serve clients through the use of the horse for the purpose of contributing positively to the cognitive, physical, emotional and social well being of people with special needs.
Organization achieves this by way of therapy, education, sports and recreational/leisure with a focus
on safety at all times.
Professional Staff: Instructors and volunteers.
Area Served: South Carolina.
Eligibility: Individuals with special needs
Accept military family members. Agency is supported by donations and sponsorships. For more information please contact the agency or visit the website.
Family Connection
2712 Middleburg Dr. Suite 103-B. Columbia, SC 29204
Telephone: (803) 252-0914 Toll Free: 1-800-578-8750
Website: www.familyconnectionsc.org
Services available: Support group, training, father’s network, family partner program, advocacy, workshop, respite, and more. Family Connection of South Carolina, Inc. is a network of parents working with community professionals to provide parent-to-parent support and assurance to families with children of all ages who have special needs
Area Served: South Carolina.
Accept military family members. For more information call the agency or visit the website.
SC Association of Independent Home Schools
930 Knox Abbott Drive, Cayce, SC 29033
Telephone: (803) 454-0427 Fax: (803) 454-0428
Website: www.SCAIHS.org
Services Available: Accountability, service, and support for home schooling. Services elementary, middle, and high school programs plus a special needs program.
Area Served: South Carolina.
Eligibility: K-12 grade
Military & Family Life Consultants (MFLC)
Fort Jackson, SC
Telephone: (803) 751-4865
Website: www.familyconnectionsc.org
Services available: A DOD provided program offering support to servicemen and women and their families through the tough times of military life, including deployment, mobilization, reintegration and the resulting issues that affect service members and their families. MFLCs provide short-term, situational, problem-solving counseling for many issues that military families face.
Eligibility: Soldiers and Family Members
Palmetto Children’s Health Initiative
Fort Jackson Road, Columbia, SC 29209
Telephone: (803) 779-4875 Toll free: 1-888-998-4646
Fax: (803) 212-7124
Website: www.palmettoproject.org.
Services available: Statewide initiative to link children under age 18 to an affordable and appropriate medical home.
Area Served: South Carolina.
Eligibility: Ages 18 and younger.
Not TRICARE approved. Fee for services.
Parents Reaching Out to Parents of SC (PRO-Parents)
652 Bush River Road, Suite 203. Columbia, SC 29210-7537
Telephone: (803) 772-5688 Toll Free: 1-800-759-4776
Website: www.proparents.org
Email address: proparents@proparents.org.
Services available: Provides information and training about education to families of children with all types of disabilities.
Point of contact: Mary Eaddy- Director.
Area Served: South Carolina.
Accept military family members. For more information call the agency or visit the website.
PASO’s Program (Prenatal Awareness for Successful Outcomes)
730 Devine Street Suite#108 Columbia, SC 29208
Telephone: (803) 528-4748 Fax: (803) 777-0318
Website: www.scpasos.org
Person to Contact: Margarita Franco
Email Address: margarita@scpasos.org
Area Served: Richland and Lexington Counties
Services Available: Provides free prenatal education. Class is available in Spanish.
Accept military family members. For more information regarding professional staff and other services please contact the agency or visit the website.
SC Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) Division of CSHCN
(Babynet Program)
SC First Steps to School Readiness
BabyNet Program
1300 Sumter St, Suite 100 Columbia, SC 29201
Telephone: (803) 734-0877 or (803) 734-0479 (voice)
Toll free: 1-800-868-0404 Fax: (803)734-1431
Website: www.scfirststeps.org/babynet.html or
http://www.scdhec.gov/health/mch/cshcn/programs/babynet/
Person to contact: Martha Hinson- Babynet Coordinator.
Service available: Provides early intervention program for infants and toddlers less than three years of age with developmental delays or conditions associated with developmental delays including therapies, transportation, assistive technology, nutrition, nursing, social work, evaluations and assessments, speech/hearing/vision services, service coordination and family training.
Eligibility: Children with developmental delays.
Accept military family members. For more information on fees and other services please call the agency or visit the website.
South Carolina Department of Education Office of Exceptional Children
1429 Senate Street, Rutledge Building 808, Columbia, SC 29201
Telephone: (803) 734-8224 Fax: (803) 734-4824
Website: http://ed.sc.gov/index.html
Email address: info@ed.sc.gov or metts@ed.sc.gov
Services Available: The State Department of Education, through local school districts is responsible for ensuring that all children with disabilities, ages three through twenty-one, have available to them a free, appropriate public education. Also responsible for statewide coordination of the planning and implementation of child identification, location, and evaluation efforts (Child Find).
Eligibility: Ages three to twenty-one.
Accept active military family members. Supported by the State Government. For more information please call the agency or visit the website.
South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
1801 Main Street Columbia, SC 29202-8206
(Mailing address: P. O. Box 8206 Columbia, SC 29202-8206)
Phone: (803) 898-2500 Fax (803) 898-4515
Website: www.dhhs.state.sc.us
Services available: Ensures Medicaid eligible children receive Early Periodic Screening Testing and Diagnosis and well child physician visits. Operates the South Carolina Partners for Health initiative to provide the children of working families Medicaid insurance.
For more information about additional types of programs and services please contact organization or visit the website.
SC Spinal Cord Injury Association (SCSCIA)
500 Taylor Street, Suite 403, Columbia, SC 29201.
Toll Free: (866) 445-5509 Telephone: (803) 252-2198 Fax: (803) 376-4156.
Website: www.scspinalcord.org
Email: scscia@att.net
Services Available: Provides advocacy, peers support groups, new injury visit, and education to individuals with disabilities and their families.
Area Served: South Carolina.
Eligibility: Individuals with spinal cord injuries.
Accept military family members. For more information please contact the agency or visit the website.
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