State Office Adoptions Contacts
Street Address:
1535 Confederate Avenue
Office 520
Columbia, South Carolina 29201
Mailing Address:
South Carolina Department of Social Services
P.O. Box 1520
Columbia, SC 29202-1520
Phone: 803-898-3956
Fax: 803-898-1209
Foster Care and Adoption Support Program Manager:
Melissa S Lowe (Melissa.Lowe@dss.sc.gov)
803-898-7194
State Office Adoptions Supervisors:
Heather Boyles (Heather.Boyles@dss.sc.gov)
803-898-7727
Supervises: Title IV-E Adoption Assistance Determinations, Initial Adoption Assistance payments, Tax Credit Letters, and SBMA reimbursement requests
Alexis Conrad (Alexis.Conrad@dss.sc.gov)
803-898-7388
Supervises: Statewide Adoption Recruitment Coordinators, Adoption Recruitment activities and contracts, Certified Investigators, Responsible Father Registry, Adoption Reunion Registry, and Post-legal requests
Avery O’Toole (Avery.Otoole@dss.sc.gov)
803-898-7539
Supervises: Adoption Medicaid, Non-Recurring Cost Applications and Payments, Private Adoption Assistance requests, Adoption Subsidy Renegotiations, School letters, Subsidy Extension for 18-21 years old, and Subsidized Legal Guardianship
Regional Permanency Offices:
Upstate Regional Permanency Office
(Serving Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Newberry, Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg and Union Counties)
Catherine Harmon, CWS Upstate Regional Permanency Office Director
714 N. Pleasantburg Dr.
Greenville, SC 29607
Phone: (800) 868-6595
Midlands Regional Permanency Office- Columbia Office
(Serving Lexington, Richland, Fairfield and Kershaw Counties)
Kenya Papillion, CWS Midlands Regional Permanency Office Director
2638 Two Notch Rd., Suite 200
Columbia, SC 29204
Phone: (888) 711-7095
Midlands Regional Permanency Office - Rock Hill Office
(Serving York, Lancaster and Chester Counties)
454 South Anderson Road, BTC
515, Suite 101
Rock Hill, SC 29730
Phone: (800) 922-1537
Midlands Regional Permanency Office - Orangeburg Office
(Serving Aiken, Barnwell, Bamberg, Saluda, McCormick and Edgefield Counties)
2570 St. Matthews Rd
Orangeburg, SC 29116
Phone: (803) 515-1852
Lowcountry Regional Permanency Office
(Serving Allendale, Beaufort, Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton, Jasper and Orangeburg Counties)
Tangela Carr, CWS Low Country Regional Permanency Office Director
3346 Rivers Ave., Suite F
N. Charleston, SC 29405
Phone: (800) 922-1518
Pee Dee Regional Permanency Office
(Serving Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Lee, Marion, Marlboro, Sumter and Williamsburg Counties)
Cynthia Abson, CWS Pee Dee Regional Permanency Office Director
181 East Evans St.
Florence Business and Technology Center-112
Florence, SC 29506
Phone: (800) 763-6637
ICPC State Office
Mainline, 803-898-7532
Tara Williams, Director of ICPC
Tara.Williams@dss.sc.gov
803-898-7640
