Presenting 2024 DWTSS Dancers Matt McBride and Karlye Brooke Mainer! They are competing along with eleven other teams to win the 2024 Mirror Ball Trophy Judges Choice award and the Top Fundraiser award.
Dancing with the Statesboro Stars is a night of dancing and performances to raise funds and awareness for Safe Haven, the nonprofit organization that serves adult and child survivors of domestic violence in Bulloch and five surrounding counties.
The 14th annual Dancing with the Statesboro Stars presented by D&R Car Care will be held on Thursday, November 21, 2024. The encore show will be Sunday, November 24, 2024 at 3pm at the Connection Church
Each day leading up to the event on November 9, 2024 we will introduce you to the 12 teams competing.
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Meet Matt
Matt is a twenty-eight-year-old native of Bulloch County. He loves his community and plans to make this his forever home. His parents, Chris and Sandra McBride, have made an
enormous impact on his life. The love his parent have for each other and also showed their children has made him into the man he is today. Matt joined the law enforcement family on January 4 th , 2016, and he plans to retire from the Sheriff’s Office whenever God sees fit. Matt is also part of the National Guard unit, 1-118th FA in Springfield, Georgia, and he was called to serve overseas on a 12-month combat deployment in Afghanistan supporting the United States Special Forces in 2018. Matt and his wife, Taylor, have been blessed with two beautiful daughters, Della Gray (4) and Dylan Kate (3). Being a loving husband and father is now his favorite daily duty.
In his eight years of service as a Sheriff’s Deputy, he has seen numerous domestic violence incidents in our community and knows first-hand how children are affected as well.
Safe Haven Statesboro does an amazing job serving and protecting families involved in domestic violence incidents, and they can count on Matt to support them with whatever it is needed. He is committed to work together with Safe Haven to provide the funding needed to keep serving these children and parents involved in the best way possible. Matt has a strong faith and wants to remind us to pray daily and lean on Jesus Christ. God bless.
Meet Karlye
Karlye Brooke is a twenty-two-year-old Statesboro native. She recently graduated from Georgia Southern University with a degree in Elementary Education. Karlye is now pursuing her Masters degree at Georgia Southern and is employed with the Bulloch County Board of Education as a first-grade teacher at Nevils Elementary. Statesboro School of Dance is where she took lessons for fifteen years under the instruction of Shay Morgan. At SSOD, she was trained in ballet, tap, and jazz. Karlye Brooke continued to teach dance at Statesboro School of Dance through college, and she has also been a part of teaching the Boys and Girls Club for Statesboro School of Dance’s “Faith in Motion” where
students from the club take dance classes each week and perform in the show. Dance has always been a huge part of Karlye Brooke’s life, and she cannot wait to take the stage
again for such a wonderful cause. Safe Haven has created such an incredible event that brings the community together, and she is so excited for the friendships and memories she has made and will continue to make through participating in this event.
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About Safe Haven
Safe Haven is a program of Citizens Against Violence, Inc., a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) corporation. It is the emergency safe house for adult and child victims of domestic violence serving Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Jenkins, Screven and Washington counties. Save Haven is open 24 hours per day/7 days per week. The length of time at the shelter is based on personal plans and progress towards independence.
There is no charge for services provided at the shelter which include:
- Access to a 24-hour crisis line
- Immediate, safe, emergency shelter
- Advocacy by knowledgeable, caring professionals
- Case management services
- Parenting classes
- Family safety planning
- Access to donated clothing and furnishings
- Transportation
- Legal Advocacy
- Childcare
- Community support
- Housing assistance
- Relocation services