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Heritage Outreach & Great Expectations Program

Heritage Outreach & Great Expectations Program’s mission is to expand our educational program for individuals with Intellectual Disabilities & Related Disabilities (ID&RD).  We serve individuals from many ethnic backgrounds. Our outings and future activities/experiences are designed to educate all of them. Many of the consumers have direct lineage to ancestors who have lived South and North of the Broad River for several generations. To help them and other individuals with disabilities better understand and celebrate this heritage we provide: 

1. Educational programs, theater, musical performances, art, guest speakers and other cultural events 

2. Visits to numerous local museums and historical sites such as Penn Center, the Santa Elena Museum, Mitchelville Freedom Park, Spanish and revolutionary forts and archeological sites in our area. 

3. Trips to local farms to learn about the agricultural history of the low country.

4. Gullah cooking, cast netting for shrimp and lowcountry basket weaving design and development.

5. guest speakers like Dr. Emory S. Campbell and other educators to speak directly to our consumers

The above are just a few of the activities in which consumers can participate as observers & and also be involved in a learning environment where they can become aware of what the local heritage means to them. 

This program mission is to provide economic assistance to those families within Beaufort County who are in dire need of financial help to purchase items for family safety and health. Each year we have help families for them to:

1. Removal of bed bug infestations

2. Purchase weighted blankets

3. Easy Lift Chairs (for assisted living homes for an individual to be able to lift a person who has fallen to a sitting position).