Palmetto Early Intervention Service was founded in 2012 by Vickie Phillips.  Vickie worked with the Charles Lea Center group homes during her last two years in college in order to gain more experience working with special needs individuals.  She quickly fell in love with all of the special needs individuals and realized how important it is for special needs individuals to have someone that they could look up to for help and support.  After obtaining her degree in Psychology from the University of South Carolina Upstate in 1992 she pursued a job at the Charles Lea Center as a service coordinator assisting individuals and families.  She helped to connect them to other services within the community to enhance their support system.  While at the Charles Lea Center she developed a special passion for children with special needs and was working with a case load of almost 70 kids.  After several years of working at the center, she decided to take a position working with the Department of Social Services where she could further her passion for helping children with special needs in the foster care system.  Vickie then took some time to further another career in real estate and she was successful for over 10 years but always missed working with children. Vickie decided to go back and work for an early intervention company to gain more experience with the Early Intervention Program.  After the death of her husband in a motorcycle accident, she decided to adopt her first and only child, Hope.  Vickie then decided to open Palmetto Early Intervention Service as a way to provide for her child and use her experiences in life doing what she enjoys.  Vickie, with the support of her sister, Angie, manages 8 Early Interventionists/Service Coordinators.   We are currently providing services to children in the Spartanburg area and have recently branched out to service children in the Greenville and Cherokee Counties.