Healthy Learners began serving the students of Allendale County in the fall of 2005. We expanded to begin serving Hampton County in 2021 and Barnwell and Bamberg Counties in 2023. The program serves elementary, middle and high school students in these four Lowcountry counties who lack adequate access to health care. In 2019, Healthy Learners piloted mass vision and hearing screenings for students in Allendale County. These screening events, in partnership with childcare providers, community partners and school districts, allow us to identify children in the Lowcountry with health barriers to learning, then provide access to the health care that they need to thrive in school. Healthy Learners is continuing to use this screen, refer, serve strategy to expand our reach and impact into other rural counties in the Lowcountry.

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Sometimes, a child’s greatest barrier to their success is within their own family. Dashamus, Desaiah, and Damaje Jackson have been friends of Healthy Learners ever since school leadership approached our team in 2017 with concerns that their family had limited...

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Healthy Learners Lowcountry has been serving Allendale County for over 15 years and is truly an embedded member of this rural community. Our staff live, raise their families, attend church and community events in the Lowcountry. These community connections are...

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PROGRAM

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“Working with Healthy Learners and the children here in my own community gives me a sense of pride and honor.”

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Shelley Thomas, RN, ADN

Community Manager Lowcountry

803.530.6785 (call or text)
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“Be a voice, not an echo” – Albert Einstein

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Mason Farmer

Student Services Coordinator Lowcountry

803.521.5274 (call or text)
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“I strongly believe that if I can help someone as I journey through this land from day to day then my living will not be in vain.”

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Gwen Ritter Walker, BA

Student Services Coordinator Lowcountry

803.686.2003 (call or text)
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“Smile and let everyone know that today, you’re a lot stronger than you were yesterday”

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Tiffine Forester, BSW

Student Services Coordinator Lowcountry

803.530.0753 (call or text)
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OFFICE

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Healthy Learners Lowcountry

219 Old Barnwell Road
Allendale, South Carolina 29810

Phone: 803.584.7663
Fax: 803.584.9223

Secure Fax: 833.407.1370*

*for documents containing PHI