25 Years ( and counting!) of Restoring Hope
Since 1985 Windwood has provided therapeutic residential services to hundreds of abused, neglected children. That statement doesn't begin to convey what our healing programs have meant to children who never lived in a setting where chaos, violence, and drug abuse were not a daily occurrence . . . that is, until they came to Windwood Farm. Windwood has been a safe haven for abused, hurting children without a reason to smile. Here they gain the confidence to stand tall, break out into joyous laughter, and recapture a glimpse of a childhood denied to them for far too long.
During the past year, we have been working hard to widen our sphere of influence in breaking down the barriers to ending abubse and neglect. We opened a new residential treatment program (PRTF), we were re-accredited by The Council on Accreditation (COA) for maintaining best practice standards of care, we were awarded a state contract to provide Rehabilitative Behavioral Health Services in our community, in homes,and in schools, and we opened Windwood Family Services, an out-patient counseling center located in Mount Pleasant.
Our highly trained staff continues to provide evidence based therapies including Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Treatment(TF-CBT)and Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT).
Our Relatives Raising Relatives program is up and running to assist grandparents, aunts, and uncles who have stepped up to assist in rearing the children of relatives who because of a variety of reasons are not able to independently or adequately parent their children.
Additionally several staff have neen trained to assist families through the South Carolina Benefit Bank and from Charity Tracker.
Our services have been carefully designed by our experienced staff to meet four key goals:
1.To optimize children's emotional and behavioral well-being,
2.To reduce delinquency,
4.To heal and strengthen family relationships, and
5.To decrease the number of children entering state custody by intervening in difficult situations that help families to stay together.
These are ambitious goals, but Windwood Farm has a proven history of success in accomplishing these crucial outcomes with troubled children.
We are also enlisting community support to help us restore hope and bring healing to the lives of children and families threatened and damaged by the devastating effects of abuse.
Please join us in reaching as many troubled, hurting children in our community as possible in the coming year.
History & Background:
25 Years ( and counting!) of Restoring Hope
Since 1985 Windwood has provided therapeutic residential services to hundreds of abused, neglected children. That statement doesn't begin to convey what our healing programs have meant to children who never lived in a setting where chaos, violence, and drug abuse were not a daily occurrence . . . that is, until they came to Windwood Farm. Windwood has been a safe haven for abused, hurting children without a reason to smile. Here they gain the confidence to stand tall, break out into joyous laughter, and recapture a glimpse of a childhood denied to them for far too long.
During the past year, we have been working hard to widen our sphere of influence in breaking down the barriers to ending abubse and neglect. We opened a new residential treatment program (PRTF), we were re-accredited by The Council on Accreditation (COA) for maintaining best practice standards of care, we were awarded a state contract to provide Rehabilitative Behavioral Health Services in our community, in homes,and in schools, and we opened Windwood Family Services, an out-patient counseling center located in Mount Pleasant.
Our highly trained staff continues to provide evidence based therapies including Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Treatment(TF-CBT)and Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT).
Our Relatives Raising Relatives program is up and running to assist grandparents, aunts, and uncles who have stepped up to assist in rearing the children of relatives who because of a variety of reasons are not able to independently or adequately parent their children.
Additionally several staff have neen trained to assist families through the South Carolina Benefit Bank and from Charity Tracker.
Our services have been carefully designed by our experienced staff to meet four key goals:
1.To optimize children's emotional and behavioral well-being,
2.To reduce delinquency,
4.To heal and strengthen family relationships, and
5.To decrease the number of children entering state custody by intervening in difficult situations that help families to stay together.
1.To optimize children's emotional and behavioral well-being,
2.To reduce delinquency,
4.To heal and strengthen family relationships, and
5.To decrease the number of children entering state custody by intervening in difficult situations that help families to stay together.
These are ambitious goals, but Windwood Farm has a proven history of success in accomplishing these crucial outcomes with troubled children.
We are also enlisting community support to help us restore hope and bring healing to the lives of children and families threatened and damaged by the devastating effects of abuse.
Please join us in reaching as many troubled, hurting children in our community as possible in the coming year.
History & Background:
Help, Hope, and Heal - Serving At-Risk Youth and Their Families
Windwood Farm Home for Children, Inc. was established in 1985 as a private, non-profit long-term residential care 
program by a local businessman, Joseph L. Tamsberg, Jr. Since he made his initial donation of this property, previously his family's home, Windwood Farm continues to be utilized as a valued resource in our community.
Govered by a voluntary Board of Directors, representative of the community-area community, Windwood Farm Serves boys from throughout the state ages 6-16.
To date, Mr. Tamsberg continues to assist Windwood Farm in the delivery of our mission: to prevent child abuse and neglect. Through this mission we are building foundations to influence futures.
Since 1985 when the home opened it's doors to six children, Windwood Farm has continued to grow at a steady pace serving over 400 young boys and adolescents in its twenty five year history. Currently Windwood Farm's residential programs are liscensed to serve 26 children at a time, 12 in our group home, and 12 in our psychiatirc residential theraputic facility.
In 1991 a second home was constructed and our school house followed shortly there after in 1997.
Two more major projects were completed on the property in 2005; the addition of another residential home for 12 children, which now houses our PRTF program and administrative offices, and the outpost cabin for our Environmental Education Center, located at the back side of the proerty on Causey Pond.
In March 2011, we opened our out-patient clinic, Windwood Family Services, which is located at 900 Johnnie Dodds Blvd.,Suite 900 in Mount Pleasant.
This clinic provides individual, group, and family therapy services, medication management, and Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) an evidence based program for children ages two through seven and their parents.
Windwood Farm Home for Children is proud to be accredited and/or affiliated with the following organizations: 
