The Open Refuge

03/09/2025

Check out Harriet Hancock LGBT Center if you are located in SC and in search of resources.

The Harriet Hancock Center serves LGBTQ+ people of all ages! We offer social & peer-support programming as well as a wide range of events and resources.

11/09/2024

Contact us for limited time, reduced rate, coaching sessions!

01/22/2023

Human Rights Campaign. Thank you Sally Field

Human Rights Campaign shared a post on Instagram: "Ahead of receiving the 2023 SAG Lifetime Achievement Award, Sally Field reminds us of the importance of accepting, loving and supporting LGBTQ+ youth. . . . ". Follow their account to see 5755 posts.

01/12/2022

S811, update... the subcommittee meeting "stayed" the bill and will continue to discuss. I heard lots of concerning testimony from SENATOR JOSH KIMBRELL FROM SPARTANBURG wanting to legalize conversion therapy through this bill. Conversion therapy has been shown to be unethical and damaging in nearly half of the states and numerous countries. Medical associations of all types have supported and encouraged states to BAN conversion therapy.

SC Counseling Association provides a link that will let you easily and quickly send an email to the subcommittee. This will take 2 mins!

https://p2a.co/HOGVb4G

Thank you in advance!

01/11/2022

As a therapist, I am in the fight to ban conversion therapy including the fight of S811. We must speak out!!

01/07/2022

Therapy is like going to the chiropractor. Sometimes things get out of alignment and talking about things with a trained professional can help relieve the pain. -Robb Kornoelje

04/20/2019

Love seeing people that know it is about more than football....

07/10/2017

I speak to people every day that are not eligible for Medicaid and are unable to pay the enormous cost of a nursing home. I cannot imagine this problem getting worse than it already is. However, that is a very real and present threat. We need people to speak up for those you love and care for or those that need a voice when theirs cannot be heard. ACT NOW!

Almost everyone knows someone who relies on Medicaid --a neighbor’s child w/disabilities or Grandma in her nursing home. We must fight to

11/28/2016

Looking forward to discussing Alzheimer's Disease at 9:30 am Monday November 28 on the Coffee… instagram.com/p/BNVtMkQj6mi/

See this Instagram photo by

03/07/2016

Alzheimer's has no prejudice. Nancy Reagan showed America how to be a loving and faithful caregiver.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/06/nancy-reagans-toughest-battle-wasnt-drugs-or-guns-it-was-the-long-long-goodbye-to-the-man-she-loved/

"When it comes right down to it, you're in it alone," the former first lady said, as Alzheimer's disease ravaged her husband's mind.