Charleston VETS

Charleston VETS promotes independent living by requiring veterans to conduct independent living responsibilities such as cooking, cleaning, washing, and care-taking. CHEP encourages residents to work together as a group and share responsibilities for community living.

Since Charleston VETS offers individual apartment units, the living arrangement accommodates male, female and transgender veterans along with:

Veterans with various disabilities
Veterans with service dogs

Freedom House

Freedom House offers individual housing units, in the same community as veterans in the “traditional” program. These individual homes represent complete independent living. This program provides a continuum of care, while allowing an opportunity to reinforce and fully develop earlier skills around attitude, recovery, and treatment.

Veterans participating in the Freedom House program are required:

to pay rent commensurate with market rates
design a workable budget
be employed or receive financial support in order to meet all financial obligations
be completely self-maintained
remain substance free

Freedom House is an innovative model that allows a veteran with freedom within the bounds of sobriety and recovery and clearly builds on the veteran’s own successes.

Program Referral

All program participants are referred by the Veterans Administration’s Community Resource and Referral Center (CRRC), in North Charleston, SC. Program participants are admitted in accordance with cost-effective Housing First guidance, a successful intervention for people who have been homeless and/or and have complex disabilities.

Are you a veteran in need? Please contact the Veterans Administration’s Community Resource and Referral Center (CRRC) at: 843-789-6804.

Staff

Jordan Freund
Supportive Housing Manager

Michael Strong
Supportive Housing Case Manager

Joe Towles
Supportive Housing Case Manager

Rita Pasley
Supportive Housing Case Manager