Growing Home Southeast and its affiliates are making headlines delivering services that help support youth and strengthen families within the community. Click on a news link below for additional details. For media information contact us at (803) 791-5513.

 

May, 2010

May 1- Belk Charity Day Sales (Belk Stores Nationwide)

May 3- Percent Night at The Village Idiot (Devine St. Columbia, SC)

 

September, 2009

David White makes the front page of the Greenville News Community Section

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20090916/CITYPEOPLE/909160303/1062/White-s-priority-is-matching-parents-with-foster-kids

 

May, 2009

3rd Annual Walk for Foster Care took place on May 2nd in Downtown Columbia

The Walk was broadcast on WACH Fox and WIS TV

 

June, 2008

The United Way of the Midlands awards $24,000 to Leaphart Place

 

May, 2008

The Duke Endowment awards $290,000 to Leaphart Place

 

April, 2008

2008 Walk for Foster Care broadcast on Channel 10 NBC Saturday Morning

 

January, 2008

Construction continues on Leaphart Place

"Breaking ground and making our dream a reality"

Watch the progress (click below to view)

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September, 2007

Reaccredited by COA

 

December, 2006

Our new Reintegration through Treatment Foster Care Program (Rtfc) provided services to 10 youth and their families

September, 2006

SC HOME Program Awards Growing Home Southeast $300,000

June, 2006
Growing Home Southeast Becomes a Certified United Way Agency

Growing Home Southeast recently successfully completed the process of becoming a certified United Way agency. As A partner with United Way of the Midlands, GHSE will have the opportunity to submit proposals for funding on a competitive basis along with other opportunities open to the non profit community in the Columbia area.

SC Housing Trust Fund Awards Growing Home Southeast $249,584

Growing Home Southeast received additional funding for our supportive housing project. This funding, along with the HUD grant, puts us closer to developing Leaphart Place, our supportive housing project.

HUD Awards Growing Home Southeast $236,250

HUD awards Growing Home Southeast $236,250 to develop a unique community for youth that are transitioning out of foster care with no safe place to live. In partnership with the Midlands Area Consortium on Homelessness (MACH), the SC Department of Mental Health and Nehemiah Community Development Corporation, a supportive housing site will be developed in West Columbia, South Carolina where young people will receive a variety of support services to further the development of the life-skills necessary to live successfully as adults within their communities.