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Volunteer Opportunities and Community Service
LCAPN community services are not limited to these organizations. If you would like to recommend LCAPN support another organization, please contact the LCAPN Board.
Windwood Farm Home for Children
Windwood Farm Home for Children is a private, not for profit organization. We provide high management group home services to boys ages 5 to 16. Children at Windwood Farm have been removed from their homes due to physical, psychological, or sexual abuse; exposure to domestic violence; substance abuse or criminal activity in their family; or other unstable home situations. We provide long-term therapeutic residential treatment. In addition an outpatient program is available.
Lowcountry Orphan Relief Children's Fund
This organization provides services and aid to meet the needs of abandoned, abused, and neglected children in the Charleston area. They intervene where government aid ends.
Lowcountry Orphan Relief, Inc. (LOR) is a non-profit organization that provides goods and services to children who have been removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect. We work directly with other non-profits, schools, and government agencies to identify the individual needs of these and other children in low-income situations. LOR intervenes at critical junctures in the lives of these children, with products and services that provide a strong positive impact. From our Children’s Closet, to annual events for children and special projects for local shelters, we are dedicated to meeting the needs of abandoned, abused and neglected children in the Tri-County Area.
Please consider donating one to two hours a month to help with the overwhelming
demands this organization is currently facing.
Contact Information: PO Box
1074, Charleston, SC 29402 Phone (843) 747-4099
Web site: www.LowcountryOrphanRelief.org
Hospice of Charleston
Hospice is dedicated to helping patients, family and friends cope with serious and life threatening illness live each day as comfortably as possible. Although many hospice patients have cancer, hospices accept anyone regardless of age or type of illness.
Hospice of Charleston’s professional, interdisciplinary team includes 2 full-time MDs Board Certified in Hospice & Palliative Care, RNs, MSWs, CNAs, chaplains, and specially trained volunteers providing patients with what to expect, how to cope, and provide access to hospice professionals 24 hours a day.
The July 26th issue of The New England Journal of Medicine article, “Understanding Hospice – An Underutilized Option” highlights although the medical community’s acceptance of hospice as a quality component in the care continuum, many referrals to hospice care come within the last few days of life. Although many hospice patients have cancer, likely because prognostication is more readily determined, all patients with incurable disease are candidates for hospice care. When considering if hospice care for a patient with a non-cancer diagnosis, certain criteria is considered. If a patient has a life-limiting disease and has experienced any of the following: several hospitalizations over the last 6 months; significant weight loss; shortness of breath, even at rest; begun taking pain medications or needs assistance with 3 or more ADLs; hospice care may be appropriate.
Disease specific admission criteria are available from Hospice of Charleston and our staff is happy to provide evaluation visits to confirm hospice appropriateness.
Hospice care is covered by Medicare, Medicaid and most commercial insurance policies. Hospice of Charleston, our community’s first non-profit provider, maintains our mission is to serve individuals regardless of their ability to pay for services.
For additional information please contact Todd Beatty at (843) 303-5627, email, or visit our website at www.HospiceOfCharleston.org.
Water Missions International (WMI)
Water Missions International is a nonprofit, Christian engineering organization serving the water and sanitation needs of people in developing countries and disaster areas. WMI uses low-maintenance, appropriate water technologies for drinking water treatment and distribution, wastewater management, and storm water control. WMI’s mission is to provide sustainable access to safe water and an opportunity to hear the "Living Water" message in developing countries and disaster areas. WMI’s vision is that no person should perish for want of safe drinking water or an opportunity to hear the "Living Water" message.
Clean water is the source of life. It is the foundation for health, education, and viable economies. Through the generous support of individuals, churches, nonprofits, and businesses, WMI has brought relief and hope to more than a million people across the globe.
Learn more about WMI at our meeting Tuesday, September 9 or visit their website (www.WaterMissions.org) for more information.
Palmetto Project
Palmetto Project’s mission is to put new and creative ideas to work solving problems in South Carolina.
The Palmetto Project is a catalyst for innovation. Through special partnerships with governments, businesses, civic groups, schools, and religious organizations, we strive to bring a fresh, entrepreneurial spirit to the challenge of building successful communities in a great state.
It is our view that somewhere in the world, some community is using an innovative approach to solve the very same problems we face in South Carolina. Our job is to study these ideas, learn what makes them work, and adapt them to the needs of our communities.
Please visit www.PalmettoProject.org, to see details on this comprehensive program.
Guardian ad Litem
The South Carolina volunteer Guardian ad Litem program recruits, trains and supervises volunteers who are court appointed to represent and advocate for the best interest of children in court proceedings involving allegations of abuse and neglect.
Anyone who has interest in children and the desire to serve can become a Guardian ad Litem. Volunteers come from all professions and backgrounds, from stay at home mothers to corporate executives. What they share in common is the belief that they can make a positive difference in the life of a child.
Volunteer Guardians ad Litem play a critical role on behalf of abused and neglected children across the state. If you are looking for more information, please contact the GAL office at (800) 277 0113 or (803) 734-1695 or by email.
Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina
Located in downtown Charleston, Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina has been serving the entire state for 113 years. Our mission is to foster the development of healthy babies and strong, competent parents. We value the right of every child to have a healthy start in life, and the right of every pregnant young woman to obtain the education, skills, and support needed to become self-sufficient. We provide education, counseling services, medical care, social support, and a safe haven for low-income, disadvantaged pregnant and parenting mothers in need. After completing our program, our clients have the skills to become responsible parents and members of the community. We all benefit as they become self-sufficient, responsible mothers, and their babies grow up happy, healthy, loved, and safe.
Our website address is www.FlorenceCrittentonSC.org.