Helping Hands Children’s Home opened its door in 1984. Our mission is to provide the children placed in our care with a safe place to live as well as food, clothing, access to an education, healthcare, and counseling. The Program accepts abused and/or neglected boys who have been taken into care by the SC Department of Social Services. We are licensed to care for boys from through-out the state but the majority of the children come from Anderson, Greenville, Oconee and Pickens Counties. Our current license grants us to care for boys from age 7 to age 21. The boys may be with us as little as over-night or up to a year or more. The Shelter can care for up to 32 boys at a time and has cared for more than 8,550 children since opening the doors. The Program has an annual operating budget of $989,000. Over 50% of the children that find shelter at Helping Hands are here due to neglect that is often a direct result of parental substance abuse. Many of the children test positive for exposure to drugs. All of the children have been victims of neglect and/or abuse (physical abuse, sexual abuse and/or mental abuse)
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