Providing constructive feedback to leadership to help improve government policies and programs is a worthy endeavor. Most people in leadership positions do value the opinions of people experiencing or close to problems in our system.

Citizen-provided information is often the best and most accurate information a leader can receive. Sometimes it is the only way they can learn about real issues, difficulties, and successes of government initiatives to serve their constituents. We think leaders respond to positive feedback that they believe is accurate and reliable.

Providing your opinion and feedback to leadership could help get WorkWORLD^TM provided free to all in South Carolina. This page provides, as a convenience, key contact information for agencies in your state and members of your state legislature. A different page has contact information for federal agencies.

Additionally, the Achieving Free WorkWORLD in Your State Through Pledges page shows how state agencies, community-based organizations, and individuals can help build a state funding pool to make WorkWORLD free to residents of South Carolina.

If you do contact leadership, tell them why WorkWORLD is valuable to you, and how you use the WorkWORLD program or website. Leadership can be encouraged to visit our explanation page for our new funding structure, so that they can consider the value of working with us to arrange for free distribution of our software to all that want it in South Carolina.

Contact information and agency structures change frequently at the state level. If you find information here that needs to be updated, or if you know of other people and agencies in South Carolina that should be added to the list, please email us at workworld@vcu.edu.

You may also wish to review our new funding structure page which details changes in distribution and other steps we are taking to keep WorkWORLD available for all.

Department of Disabilities & Special Needs
Stan Butkus, Director
PO Box 4706
Columbia, SC  29240
Phone: 803-898-9600
Email: ddsnweb@ddsn.sc.gov

Developmetnal Disabilites Council
Charles Lang, Executive Director
1205 Pendleton Street
Rm 453 C
Columbia, SC  29201-3731
Phone: 803-734-0465
Fax: 803-734-0241
Email: clang@govoepp.state.sc.us

DD Council
John Katzbeck, Chairperson
6905 Cleaton Rd., L-162
Columbia, SC  29206
Phone: 803-783-7761
Email: john.katzbeck@us.schneider-electric.com

Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities, Inc.
Gloria Prevost, Executive Director
3710 Landmark Drive, Suite 208
Columbia, SC  29204
Phone: 803-782-0639
Fax: 803-790-1946
Email: info@protectionandadvocacy-sc.org

Department of Health & Human Services
Robert Kerr, Director
P.O. Box 8206
Columbia, SC  29202-8206
Phone: 803-898-2504
Fax: 803-898-4515

Veterans Affairs
Robert Weaver, State Director of Veterans Affairs
SC
Email: rweaver@govoepp.state.sc.us

Employment Security Commission
Roosevelt Halley, Executive Director
1550 Gadsden Street P.O. Box 995
Columbia, SC  29202
Phone: 803-737-2617
Fax: 803-737-2642
Email: thalley@sces.org

Workforce Investment Board - Employment Security Commission
Samuel Jordan, WIA Administrator
P.O. Box 995
Columbia, SC  29202
Phone: 803-737-2611
Fax: 803-737-2119
Email: sjordan@sces.org

Disability Action Center, Inc.
Kathy Pelletier, Executive Director
1115 Belleview Ave
Columbia, SC  29201
Phone: 803-779-5121
Fax: 803-799-5114
Email: dacdirect1@sc.rr.com

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