Needs From: Lowcountry Volunteer Connections

Antioch Educational Center has offered free legal services to members of low-income families, for the last four years.

Through this program, AEC has been able to provide non-criminal services such as assistance with cases dealing with family and elder law, landlord tenant disputes, expungements, wills, Power of Attorney, Medical Do Not Resuscitate Orders, employment issues and more. AEC also offers this service as an "Office Without Walls Project," in addition to regular hours inside of AEC's facility.

With the "Office Without Walls Project," AEC goes to different locations such as senior centers, Head Start Locations, low-income housing community rooms, and more to better identify and then serve those in need of this valuable services.

This program is in partnership with the University of South Carolina Law School, Lowcountry Legal Volunteers and South Carolina Legal Services. This program has served an average of 100 people per year over the last four years.

This program needs volunteers to set up appoints and implement evaluations.

this is a nine-year-old program that takes average students, during their first year of school, and provides a daily afterschool venue where the basic areas of study are offered while also inserting public speaking, leadership, and other skills that will help to lead to a very successful lifestyle. This dynamic program also includes one weekend of travel each month as well as a full week of national and international travel during the summer months. Although suspended during the height of COVID, students enrolled in this program have already visited places such as Mexico, Canada, Seattle, Washington DC Baltimore, Atlanta, and Miami…just to name a few. Because of its many advantages, this program is limited to no more than 25 students at any given time.

This program needs teacher assistants, food preppers, reading instructors and chaperones.

 This is an innovative program that allows 50 students to receive on the job training at one of many nonprofit or governmental agencies in Jasper County This year, 2022, marks eight years that this on-the job training program has been offered to Jasper County’s high school juniors and seniors. This unique program offers many opportunities such as financial literacy training, CPR Certification, and opportunities to travel to several state universities and colleges. 3 – AEC’s Programs Each student receives all of this and more while receiving a competitive salary that is deposited directly into their bank account every two weeks.

This program needs volunteers to oversee participant selection, visit employment sites, event planning and oversee performance incentives.

This program graduated its first class in November of 2014. This year, which marks eight years, is when AEC will graduate its 20th group of Certified Nursing Assistants. Although suspended for one full year during the height of COVID, this valuable program still will have graduated an estimated 140 students by the end of May 2022. These individuals are gainfully employed helping to filled what remains a huge void in our medical/health field in our region. This six-week program is in partnership with the Bargain Box, First Pres (HHI), Coastal Carolina Hospital and NHC (Bluffton). AEC will graduate its 17th class on March 4, 2022. AEC will start two new classes in March. One evening class (that will run from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday) and one weekend class (that will run from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday) that are both full with a waiting list of nearly 50 students. All classes are tuition free. Students are financially responsible for supplies, uniforms, and books.

This program needs volunteers for filing, telephoning, emailing, and texting students, taking of applications, printing of medical training catalog, tracking of alumni, inventory, and oversee student acceptance/interviews.