The Marine Avenue residential center on the former Charleston Naval Base serves single mothers who lack safe, secure housing while they are completing their education and career training. Residents must be 18 or older with one child, be motivated and have defined career goals. Residents may stay up to two years and contribute a percentage of their income to housing costs. Supportive services include individual counseling, parenting and child development, health education, budgeting and household management.

    Take Charge, an independent living curriculum offered to adolescents about to age out of protective custody, was developed at the request of the Department of Social Services Foster Care Division. This intensive curriculum focuses on the issues and skills necessary for the successful transition from protective custody to financial and emotional independence. The purpose of this program is to provide an understanding of personal choices and the responsibility of decision making as well as the practical aspects of living independently.

    The Nunan Street Project is a collaborative venture with the Humanities Foundation and the Volunteers of America to provide  affordable housing to single-parent families and serves as a cornerstone effort to reclaim the Nunan Street neighborhood. Crittenton has extended the supportive services already offered at Marine Avenue to ten of the families at Nunan Street. Occupancy began March, 1999.

1998 Statistics 

Marine Avenue : 10 client families. 

Take Charge : 8 clients.

Nunan Street : 10 client families