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The Reid House of Christian Service is a private, non-profit, multi-service community organization established in January 1950 under the auspices of the Seventh Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The center provides services for persons of all religious faiths and nationalities. The community programs include (click each item to view more information on that particular service):
| Adoption & Foster Care Services |
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In July 2000, Reid Center started a foster care recruitment program to find prospective families to become foster parents. We are now recruiting in Berkeley, Beaufort, Charleston and Georgetown Counties. The Women's Missionary Society of the Seventh Episcopal District of the AME church has joined our efforts to find loving and secure homes for waiting children. Reid House African American Adoption Center serves persons of all ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds to meet the needs of our children.
The family recruitment program reaches out to families and children in the entire state of South Carolina. The Adoption Center provides services, which include recruitment, assessment, and approval of adoptive families, as well as post legal services and respite.
Reid House African American Adoption Center works in conjunction with the South Carolina Department of Social Services and member agencies.
Services include:
- Recruitment of families to become adoptive and foster parents
- Information on the availability of public, private, and faith-based adoptive and foster care services.
- Respite and support for adoptive and foster care parents.
- A network of volunteers and information services to increase public awareness of adoptive and foster children and family recruitment.
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| The Reid House has expanded its adult day care servcies to now include adult day care health services. These services provide supervised day care to persons with Alzheimer's disease, related dementia, 65 or older, and handicapped adults to assist them to live with dignity and vitality by proving structured supervised activities in keeping with their functional level.
Activities Include:
- Case Management
- Therapeutic Recreation Activities
- Health Care Services
- Intergenerational Activities
- Meals and Transportation
- Field Trips
- Exercise Programs
Service Hours:
- Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
- Daily nursing services performed by a registered nurse
- Medicaid payments accepted
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| Health Education / Prevention Services |
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| The Peer Teen Program, sponsored by Reid House, empowers teens to train other teens about HIV/AIDS. Youths are trained and certified by the American Red Cross to be HIV/AIDS instructors. The training is generally held three Saturdays and is directed toward youth 13-19 years of age.
Once a youth completes training, he or she is required to conduct at least three workshops per year co-facilitated by a certified adult in the field of HIV/AIDS.
Life Saver Parties
Life Saver Parties (educational sessions) are held in private residential settings for adult men and women. They receive valuable information regarding HIV/AIDS and are provided with information concerning safer sex practices. Adults are allowed an opportunity to talk freely about their views on HIV/AIDS.
Street Outreach
Reid House Street Outreach Program includes beauty, barber shops and community centers that serve as sites for distribution of pamphlets, brochures, condoms and information on available support services.
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