CALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN
Providing Help, Hope, Hope to Neglected and Abused Children
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Calvary Home for Children provides help, hope, and home to children who have experienced abuse, neglect, and/or abandonment. Often the children we serve have experienced extreme trauma, deplorable living conditions, and drug exposure due to generational cycles of weakened family structure. Through the Calvary Home cottages, staffed by full-time foster parents, Calvary Home seeks to provide a home where sibling groups of multiple ages and genders can live together under one roof while their birth parents seek stable housing and work, and complete their treatment plan with the Department of Social Services (DSS). For children who are unable to reunited with their birth parents, Calvary Home provides a home and family structure until the child is adopted or reaches independence.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Calvary Home Cottages
Calvary Home Cottages is a residential program serving up to 24 children at a time. Calvary Home has 3 ranch style cottages, each with full-time "Mom and Dad" who care for 6-8 children. Every house has its own personality to contribute to our foster neighborhood. Foster parents spend countless hours working with each child's emotional health, spiritual development, education, and after-school activities.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of youth who demonstrate that their school attendance has improved
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Calvary Home Cottages
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Many children who enter the foster care system struggle with school attendance due to family instability. During their time at Calvary Home, school attendance stabilizes for each student.
Number of individuals who are receiving timely health/dental exams
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Calvary Home Cottages
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Foster parents ensure that each child has yearly medical, vision, and dental appointments in addition to appointments made when issues arise.
Number of foster youth living with siblings
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Calvary Home Cottages
Type of Metric
Other - describing something else
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of direct care staff who received training in trauma informed care
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Calvary Home Cottages
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Estimated dollar value of clothing and household goods donations
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Type of Metric
Other - describing something else
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
In 2023 Calvary Home tracked the dollar value of physical donations that were given to Calvary Home.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The mission of Calvary Home for Children is to provide help, hope, and home to abused and neglected children in Upstate South Carolina. In completing our mission, Calvary Home nurtures every child physically, emotionally, academically, and spiritually, so they can break the generational cycle of abuse, neglect, and instability.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Calvary Home hires full-time sets of foster parents to provide loving structure, routine, and consistency for the children in their home. By living full time at Calvary Home, foster parents are able to create a family atmosphere and comradery among the various children and sibling groups. All full-time staff members attend training throughout the year to grow in their knowledge and practice of caring for children who have experienced trauma.
Calvary Home strives to keep life in foster care as normal as possible. Children are encouraged to participate in sports, band, chorus, and other extra-curricular activities. Additionally, Calvary Home also provides Math and English tutoring throughout the school year and summer, life skills training, and counseling.
As part of its program, Calvary Home staff members collaborate to create care plans for each child, and these care plans are reviewed every six months. These plans ensure needed areas of change are addressed, and progress is being made. Calvary Home also conducts yearly life skills assessments for children over 13 to gauge the child’s readiness to enter the world, and what gaps need to be addressed.
Finally, by utilizing volunteer groups to help maintain the beauty of our campus, we are able to redirect funding that would go towards campus maintenance and upkeep to program activities for the children.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Calvary Home has been blessed immensely with the resources for achieving its goals. These resources include:
- 9 dedicated full time staff members
- 5 foster families who have a combined 50 years of experience
- A beautiful 22-acre campus that is home to:
o 5 Foster Homes
o A Vocational Arts Center
o An Administration/Resource Office
o A Solar Field
o Room to grow!
- Community support that includes individuals, churches, businesses, and foundations who unite to provide the funds needed to keep
Calvary Home’s doors open.
- Trauma Informed Training
- Collaboration with the Department of Social Services
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
- In 20 years, Calvary Home has constructed 5 houses, with plans to construct another 4. Currently Calvary Home can provide homes for up to 28 children. When campus is complete, the capacity will be raised to 48 children.
- In 2019, Calvary Home was able to provide home for 11 sibling groups (2 or more children from the same family) on our campus. In 10 of these cases, all of the siblings were able to reside in the same cottage.
- Academic Success:
o In the 2017-2018 School Year, for children who were able to take both the Fall MAP Test and the Spring MAP test, 80% showed
improvement in reading, and 100% showed improvement in math.
o 100% of high schoolers earned all the academic credits they attempted and were promoted to the next grade.
o 100% of middle schoolers were promoted to the next grade
o 60% of elementary schoolers were promoted to the next grade
- 75% of the children who were discharged from Calvary Home between 2017 and 2019 were either reunited with their family or kin, or went to an adoptive home.
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Operations
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CALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN
Board of directorsas of 01/23/2024
Mrs Mary Wallner
Dexter Williams
Daniel Builders
James Wurst
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Dwight Greene
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Mike Settle
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Beth Collins
Educator
Tyrome Philson
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Courtney Ballenger
Beth Collins
Educator
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Not applicable -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Not applicable
Organizational demographics
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