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	March 29, 2011 SC Healthy Family Formation Coalition E-News!   Ask - Tell Them SC - About Prevention Services On Wednesday, March 30th - Legislators will be bombarded with e-mails begging them to keep funding failed so-called Family Planning services. Family Planning, and their agenda to ‘protect women’ by promoting a sex-without-consequences agenda, has done more harm than good to the women of South Carolina.   Tell Them SC claims to have 8,000 members but less then a hundred so far have signed up to slam elected officials with e-mails demanding they "invest in prevention services" that have “saved the state $180 million every year by preventing teen pregnancies”.   Is Tell Them SC taking credit for all the teens that are abstaining from sexual activity and not getting pregnant or contracting STDs? Where does the $180 million saved - come from?   Legislators need to ASK - TELL THEM SC to define their prevention “priority” services. Do they seek to prevent the sexual behaviors causing the problems? How can they claim they make ‘prevention a priority’?   Family Planning is a forty-year old failed welfare program and a huge part of the $469 million SC spends each year on entitlements to subsidized unwed pregnancies and divorce.    This is $469 million of your hard earned tax dollars picking up the pieces of chaotic family formation.     Do you really want South Carolina to go broke supporting entitlements through failed Family Planning services?   It’s your money. Tell them where to NOT spend it.       Read previous SCHFF articles…    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