Statewide Chair Mary McLellan Heritage Community Services Regional Chairs Mariscia Cooper (Pee Dee) Charlie Lybrand (Lowcountry) Lenna Neill (Upstate) Rev. Randy Riddle (Grand Strand) Dr. Roger Rollins (CSRA) Charlotte Valentine-Green (Ace Basin)   Advisory Council Eugene Bacote Darlington School District Dr. Vera Bailey Hilton Head Preg. Care Center Pamela Berry Colleton Fire and Rescue Dr. Vonda Calcutt Lowcountry Ctr. Diabetes Sen. Chip Campsen Charleston/Berkeley Rev. Chuck Coward Charleston Outreach Robin Crosby Colleton County Ligure Ellington Ret.Capt. Charleston City Police Dr. Randy Goings Chiropractic Physician Faye Hill Lowcountry Pregnancy Center & SC Association Pregnancy Care Centers WC Hoecke Fatherhood Practioner Leroy Lewis Upward Bound at Cof C Norman L. Moore, Jr. Colonel, USAFR(Ret) Cyndi Mosteller Comm. for Higher Education Alexia Newman Carolina Pregnancy Center Fred Payne Marriage Savers of Upstate Jerry & Barbara Seymour R& R Marriage Min. Ronald Shoupe Colleton County Dr. A. V. Strong A Better Way, Inc. (Gang Out) Dr. Robert Thomas Pulmonary Medicine Pastor Phil Thrailkill St. Luke UMC Hartsville Kelly Walker Upstate Fatherhood Coalition	August 3, 2010 SC Healthy Family Formation Coalition E-News!   Heritage Keepers® is building an Army of Grassroots Advocates so that abstinence life-skills education is taught to our youth, as state law mandates.   Over the past few years, Heritage Keepers® lost almost 60% of its SC staff, including 2 regions.   Ideology and public policies, contrary to abstinence-outside-of -marriage education, accelerated cuts to the point that now only a skeleton crew remains in 3 regions of the state.   Contracts were cancelled and funding streams diverted to promote ‘Safe Sex’, which means less staff to teach Heritage Keepers® to a growing waiting list.    SC Parents and Schools want Heritage Keepers® Public demand for Heritage Keepers® has increased beyond what their funding can support.  Heritage Keepers® cannot serve most of the over 11,000 students now waiting to learn how to avoid teen pregnancies and disease, and pursue success.    While Heritage Keepers® has access to students in some school districts, without funds the abstinence message is essentially censored. The so-called comprehensive sexual education agenda has plenty of funding to drown out the abstinence message.     Attention!  We Need All SCHFF Members!       More details to come!  Let your friends and colleagues know so that they can also attend!     Follow the SC-HFF Coalition on Twitter! Join the Heritage Keepers® Facebook Cause
	The South Carolina Healthy Family Formation Coalition (SC HFF Coalition) is organized and staffed by Heritage Community Services. The SC HFF Coalition promotes child and family well-being by providing opportunities for statewide communication about such issues as: adolescent pregnancy, unwed childbearing, fatherlessness, sexual exploitation of our youth, dating violence and domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, gang activity and youth violence.    Coalition members support healthy family formation initiatives that integrate character-based life skills, teen pregnancy prevention with an emphasis on abstinence-centered education, and the importance of fidelity-within-marriage.   Together we can impact our culture so that forming healthy families becomes a norm, rather than the exception, for South Carolina. Please, forward this E-News to interested friends, family and colleagues and ask them to consider joining the Coalition. Join/Subscribe Unsubscribe PRIVACY POLICY: Information you share will never be sold, rented, or given to any third party. Contact Mary McLellan , Statewide Chairman (843)654-7740 ext.122