Palmetto Care Connections’ Digital Literacy Program, Palmetto Connect, helps close the digital divide for residents in rural and underserved areas to South Carolina by increasing internet access and affordability, digital literacy trainings, and connecting individuals to quality-of-life resources such as telehealth through digital literacy.
Upcoming Digital Literacy Training
Palmetto Connect, Palmetto Care Connections’ free Digital Literacy Program, is designed to help residents in rural and underserved areas of South Carolina build essential technology skills. Participants receive hands-on training on how to use a tablet, navigate the internet, and connect with others through tools like email, video calls, and telehealth.
Upcoming classes will be held on July 24 in Kingstree, July 28 in Hampton County, and July 30 in Bishopville.
Each participant will receive a free internet-enabled tablet with one year of service (while supplies last). To register, call 803-450-1027.
📞 Call 803-450-1027 to sign up
July 24th
Williamsburg County
Kingstree Recreation Department 375 Nelson Blvd, Kingstree, South Carolina 29556
July 28th
Hampton County
Hampton County Library 12 Locust Street, Hampton, South Carolina 29924
July 30th
Lee County
Bishopville City/County Complex 140 N Main Street Bishopville, South Carolina 29010
Digital Literacy Training Resources
Digital Literacy Training
2043
Digital Literacy Training Graduates
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Total Counties Impacted in SC
Testimonials
South Carolina ETV Videos
The class settles in as Carroll Brabham prepares her lesson. It is a literacy class, but not for a spoken language. She looks out at her students, all of whom are older than she.
Thanks to funding from Rural LISC and the South Carolina Department on Aging, PCC is teaching senior citizens in rural and underserved areas of S.C. how to use digital tablets including telehealth technology. Click here to learn more.
Linda McCants, a 62-year-old from Eastover, S.C., suffered for years due to congestive heart failure, a condition in which the heart does not pump blood adequately. She struggled to breath, move and sleep. McCants was no stranger to these debilitating symptoms; her own mother died at the age of 56 from heart failure.
Linda McCants was part of the Digital Inclusion Training last year, part of a LISC grant awarded to Palmetto Care Connections along with funding from the South Carolina Department on Aging. During this class, Linda McCants was issued a tablet where one of the things that she was taught was how to use Telehealth with her doctors.
