No One Should Wait in a Cubicle.
Lily Pad began with a simple belief: every child deserves comfort, dignity, and care during moments of crisis. What started as one room has grown into a faith-rooted mission creating and maintaining trauma-informed spaces for children and families across South Carolina and Michigan.
How Lily Pad Started
Lily Pad - A Soft Place to Land began with a conversation — and a teenager named Ashlyn.
Ashlyn had been in and out of foster care since she was young. The third time she entered, she sat beside her caseworker's cubicle, exhausted and afraid, listening to her story being told to strangers. That moment moved Jennifer Tice and her husband to ask: ‘what if we could do better?’
What began as a desire to create one safer, softer space quickly became something bigger. Through faith, community partnership, and compassionate care, Lily Pad now partners with Child Welfare (DSS/DHHS) offices, law enforcement agencies, and organizations across South Carolina and Michigan to design, create, and maintain spaces where children, families, and victims can feel supported during their most difficult moments.