Welcome to Connie Maxwell Children’s Home!

Connie Maxwell is a home for some children who have been abandoned, abused , or neglected and some who have been placed by loving caregivers going through difficult situations.  In either case, children have a safe, secure, loving environment at Connie Maxwell. In addition to the main campus in Greenwood, Connie Maxwell Children’s Home provides residential care and family support through satellite locations in Chesterfield, Mauldin, Orangeburg and Florence as well as referral services in Summerville. Each year more than 200 children of diverse needs and backgrounds call Connie Maxwell home.  Some children stay as little as a few months, others for many years.  Some arrive alone, others with siblings.  Most are between the ages of six and eighteen.  Children who remain through high school graduation receive financial support for college.

Become a family for a child through Foster Care

Thank you for your interest in foster care!

There are many different reasons that one may be interested in foster care.  You may know a particular child that you would like to foster; you may know generally of the need for temporary homes for children; or your children may have left home and you want to share your home and family with another child or children.  But whatever your reason, we’re glad you have come to us about fostering.

But, even though you are interested in foster care, you may not be sure that you really want to take a foster child into your home.  That’s a big decision.  You will want to know a lot more about foster care before you commit yourself. 

The better informed you are and the more you know about what to expect, the better decision you’ll be able to make.

Foster care is planned.  When a child is placed in a foster home, the placement is part of a larger plan to protect the child and make the child’s life better.  There are special things that are supposed to happen as a result of the child’s being there.

Foster care is temporary.  Even though some children stay in foster care for a long time, the intent is for foster care to be short-term.  We want the child to get back to his/her own home or another permanent home as soon as possible.

The commitment to become a foster parent is a serious decision. Since children need security, you need to be prepared to stick with a child who is having behavioral or emotional problems due to the separation from his/her family or from trauma experienced in his/her home.  Bouncing a child from one foster home to another every time the child acts out is not helpful. Often a child will act out in order to gauge the level of commitment of a foster parent, since adults in his life have often let him down.  If you can stick it out, the acting out may decrease or cease as the child feels that you will love him no matter what.  You will never be given a child you strongly feel you cannot work with.

To learn more contact Phil Russell at 843-871-4673 or email Phil by clicking on his name; or contact Brooke Thompson at 800-868-2624 or email Brooke by clicking on her name!

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