Originally founded by Reverend Carlise Courtney on “50 cents and faith,” Carolina Children’s Home was chartered as a “Rescue Orphanage” on December 2, 1909. Throughout the Home’s 99 year existence, the Home has never wavered in Reverend Courtney’s goal of serving South Carolina’s children who are victims of extreme abuse, neglect and in some instances abandonment.

The mission of Carolina Children's Home is to enhance the quality of life for children and families. The Home’s primary service is to provide a home for children when they are unable to live with their family. Carolina Children's Home supports this with a range of prevention and treatment programs that are family focused and community based.

Accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children (COA), Carolina Children's Home holds an honor shared by less than 2 percent of all Human Services organizations. This accreditation signifies organizational credibility, integrity and achievement.

One of the largest and most comprehensive residential treatment facilities in the state, Carolina Children's Home offers a broad range of programs that include counseling and therapeutic services that are centered on the needs of the children we serve. From a low management facility to a temporary de-escalation center, the Home’s programs are based on the concept of a continuum of services, which enables the Home to meet all of our residents’ needs without having to shuffle them from one treatment facility to the next, while providing continuity in their lives as well.

Since the majority of the children in the Home’s care are in the custody of the state, Carolina Children’s Home does receive some reimbursement for the care of each child.  Based on the previous fiscal year’s audit, this amount averages to 76 percent of the necessary costs to provide services and programs to each resident.  Accordingly, the Home is very dependent on the continued generosity of individuals, corporations and foundations to assist in its worthy mission of helping needy children, as well as on the success of annual fundraising events like the Children’s Charity Golf Tournament.  In recent years the Home’s operating costs have increased for a variety of reasons, such as rising costs of food, rising costs of repair and maintenance to cottages that house adolescents year-round and rising insurance costs.  In the last three years, numerous group homes in South Carolina have had to close their doors as a result of such severe economic changes, yet Carolina Children’s Home has remained financially able to continue to offer the programs and services it provides thanks to the generosity of many donors.

Please know that 100 percent of the net proceeds raised from the 14th Annual Children’s Charity Golf Tournament will go to support the Home’s day-to-day operations.  These are the toughest type of dollars for Carolina Children’s Home to raise, but extremely important to sustaining the Home’s mission.  Operational dollars support the Home by providing salaries of the wonderful, highly trained staff members who have the most influence in turning around a child’s life.  They pay for the utilities and maintenance of the cottages in which the kids live.  And they pay for whatever else is needed to successfully assist the hundreds of residents who pass through the doors of Carolina CChildren’s Home each year