LOCATIONS

Below you will find a brief synopsis and contact information for each of the networked Parent Resource & Information Centers, including the main administration office. Feel free to contact any of the centers for further information including details about the services that they offer. Click on an area of the map to jump to the offices that serve you. If there is no office in your area, contact the home office.

HOME OFFICE

PO Box 11644
Columbia, SC 29211
803-744-4029
Fax: 803-744-4020
www.scparentwise.org

CATAWBA REGION

Fort Mill Family Resource Center
http://www.fort-mill.k12.sc.us/group_profile_view.aspx?id=2674ce29-808f-4369-a1b5-4b86bb533729

A variety of programs, materials and services are provided to enable parents to prepare their children for successful school experiences. Programs provide education and support through home visitation, parent-child time and workshops.

513 Bank St.
Fort Mill, SC 29715
803-548-1754
E-Mail: durhamj@fort-mill.k12.sc.us
Julie Durham, Director

Bright Beginnings / Clover Family Resource Center

Bright Beginnings is a free parenting and family literacy service offered through the Clover School District. We empower families with young children for success with learning!

We also support parents in their role as their child's best first teacher and promote the growth and healthy development of family members.

604 Bethal Street
Clover, SC 29710
803-222-8050
E-Mail: feemstern@clover.k12.sc.us
Nina Feemster, Director

ParentSmart Parent Center
http://www.parentsmart.org

The Rock Hill School District embraces a mission, which states that working together with student, home & community, ensures that all students have the skills, knowledge & desire to become life long learners & succeed in a changing world. Because adults can enable students to fulfill their potential by developing positive relationships with them, it therefore is the philosophy of the district that a parent is the child's most important teacher. Families need empowerment to develop greater skills. The Parent Education Partnership will provide leadership, education & support for the implementation of quality programs that enable families to become their child’s best first teacher.

217 Orange Street
Rock Hill, SC 29730-5359
803-981-1557
E-Mail: chunt@rock-hill.k12.sc.us
Cindy Hunt, Coordinator

Parenting Partnerships / York Family Resource Center
http://www.york.k12.sc.us/officeparenting.htm

York School District provides a parent education / family literacy program for parents. The program supports parents in their role as their child’s first teacher and enables them to prepare their children for school success. Parents are supported through home visits, workshops, agency and community referrals, a parent information resource center, adult education, literacy classes and a health clinic. Services are provided to parents at no cost.

37 Pinckney Street
York, SC 29745
803-684-1504
E-Mail: psanders@york.k12.sc.us
Penny Sanders, Coordinator

LOWCOUNTRY REGION

F.A.C.E.S. Beaufort
http://web.beaufort.k12.sc.us/education/dept/dept.php?sectionid=1306

An intensive, ecological, community based effort focused to improve lives of preschool children so that they may take advantage of educational opportunities. Provides education, support, training and intensive community based management to parents and families. Works to improve the effectiveness of parents as the primary teachers of their children.

P.O. Box 309
Beaufort, SC 29901
843-521-2399
E-Mail: kb3668@beaufort.k12.sc.us
Kay Newsome, Director

Charleston County School District
District 20 Family Resource Center

The goal of the Center is to improve student achievement by engaging and involving parents in the education of students attending the downtown area schools. The Center provides No Child Left Behind information on parental rights and options; training and resources to assist parents in understanding school report cards, student assessment results and learning standards; parent education services through home visits using Parent-Child-Home curriculum; an instructional material lending library for grades K-12 and; monthly parenting sessions on a variety of topics pertaining to child development and student learning.

244 President Street
Charleston, SC 29403
843-937-6401
E-Mail: Karen-williams@charleston.k12.sc.us
Karen Williams, Community Liaison for Parent Involvement

MIDLANDS REGION

Lexington Parent Information and Resource Center
http://www.edline.net/pages/Lexington_County_SD_One/Parenting_Center

A program that serves parents with children between the ages of birth to five years old with parent-child home visitation. Home visitation program to Latino families. Other services include, weekly and monthly parenting workshops for mothers and fathers, monthly newsletter in English and Spanish, workshops, materials, referrals and consultation to parents and parent educators.

2431 Augusta Highway
Lexington, SC 29072
803-808-1462
E-Mail: sbozard@lexington1.net
Clare Hodge, Director

PEE DEE REGION

The Pee Dee Alliance
Florence School District 1 Parent Center
http://www.fsd1.org/parentchild/default.htm

An innovative, home-based, literacy and parenting program serving families challenged by poverty, low levels of education, language barriers and other obstacles. Prepares children to succeed in school and is a proven tool to prevent high school dropouts. Uses a family literacy model, integrating parenting, early childhood education and adult education and literacy to provide comprehensive, long-term educational services to parents and children.

Mailing Address:
319 Dargan St.
Florence, SC 29506

Physical Address:
111 W. Laurel St.
Florence, SC 29506

843-665-2085
E-Mail: dbailey@fsd1.org
Diana Bailey

UPSTATE REGION

Greenwood Community Children’s Center
http://www.greenwoodchildren.org/index.html

The Greenwood Community Children's Center developed out of a growing awareness among pediatricians that many of their patients have serious problems that are not specifically medical—such as problems resulting from dysfunctional families, violence in the community, absence of a father, or an inexperienced teenage mother with no emotional support from a mentor. The Children's Center has an extensive family education and home visitation program staffed by 11 professionals. There is extensive collaboration with other social service agencies and medical service providers that makes Greenwood Community Children's Center unique.

113 Liner Drive
Greenwood, SC 29646
864-941-8170
E-Mail: sbaggett@greenwoodchildren.org
Sally Baggett, Executive Director

The School District of Greenville County Family Learning Programs
http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/district/schools/early.asp

Center

Provides parents with information, materials and services to help them prepare their children for school and success. Supports parents in being the first and most important teachers of their children.

111 Laurens Road
Greenville, SC 29607
864-241-4803
E-Mail: ghayes@greenville.k12.sc.us
Gail Hayes, Family Learning Project Director