Mrs. Hattie Williams has been a foster parent since 1985 – that is over 35 years of opening her heart and home to children in foster care! What led Mrs. Williams to become a foster parent were her own personal experiences of being adopted at a young age. Her adoptive...
You could be that one person who makes a difference in the life of a teenager or a younger child who needs to be accepted and loved. Every day across South Carolina in every community there are teens and children in need of a family to hold them close while their own...
Rebecca Needham-Mortimer is a former foster child who was adopted while in the care of SCYAP in 1995. Now as an adult, Rebecca reached out to SCYAP in June of this year with the sweetest message of gratitude to her Treatment Coordinator at the time and to SCYAP as an...
Being grateful in uncertain times may seem difficult, and understandably so. Teaching lessons of gratitude to your children in these moments may be more valuable now than it ever has been in modern times. Children are watching every move their parents and caregivers...
The jokes and memes about Thanksgiving being overlooked circulate relentlessly this time of year and even though they are hilarious, do you know why they are everywhere? Because it is the absolute truth – Thanksgiving does get overlooked. How do we prevent this day...
Lonnie and Norma Jean Kelly grew up in Pascagoula, Mississippi. They lived in Los Angeles, California in their young adulthood before settling in Summerville, SC. The Kellys became licensed as foster parents with SCYAP on June 10th, 1992. The Kellys have a blended...
