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Telecare Providers
Phone Reassurance Providers and Funding Sources
State Of South Carolina
The following is a list of South Carolina private organizations or state agencies that provide grants and funding for community programs. Also, we have listed automated and volunteer based programs that we found in the state of South Carolina.
DSC provides a Telephone Reassurance phone system that automatically calls elderly households checking to ensure they are OK. DSC also provides individual calling services for home alone children.
There are many communities that provide telephone reassurance programs (both volunteer based or automatic calling programs). These communities also refer to their programs as "Are You OK?"® and RUOK.*
Contact DSC to learn more about our automated phone systems. DSC welcomes the opportunity to discuss our telephone reassurance program and services. Also, if you are a South Carolina based community and/or organization that provides a Telephone Reassurance program and would like to be listed here, please feel free to contact us.
South Carolina Automated Telephone Reassurance Providers
The following organizations provide Telecare programs for the elderly within their South Carolina communities. These programs are both automated or volunteer based community services.
South Carolina Volunteer Telecare Providers
- AllCare Living Services, Inc. - Summerville, South Carolina (843) 832-9888
- Cherokee County Sheriff's Department - Gaffney, South Carolina (864) 489-4722
- Comfort Keepers, Beaufort County - Bluffton, South Carolina (843) 757-7731
- Comfort Keepers, Berkeley County - Goose Creek, South Carolina (843) 574-7474
- Comfort Keepers, Charleston - Goose Creek, South Carolina (843) 574-7474
- Comfort Keepers, Florence - Florence, South Carolina (843) 656-1056
- Comfort Keepers, Greenville - Greenville, South Carolina (864) 268-8993
- Comfort Keepers, Greenville West - Mauldin, South Carolina (864) 234-4949
- Comfort Keepers, Horry - North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (843) 249-9200
- Comfort Keepers, Myrtle Beach - North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (843) 249-9200
- Comfort Keepers, North Augusta - North Augusta, South Carolina (803) 279-7100
- Crisis Ministries, Anderson - Anderson, South Carolina (864) 226-0297
- Home Helpers, Lake Wylie - Lake Wylie, South Carolina (803) 831-9929
- Lowcountry Companions - Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (843) 856-2582
- Mental Health Assoc., Piedmont - Spartanburg, South Carolina (864) 582-3104
- Project HOPE - Columbia, South Carolina (803) 576-3183
- Kingstree Police Senior Citizens Watch - Kingstree, South Carolina (843) 354-5435
- Spartanburg Regional 55+ - Spartanburg, South Carolina (864) 585-6245
- Medical University of South Carolina - Charleston, South Carolina (800) 677-1166
- Faith in Action of the Salvation Army - Aiken, South Carolina (803) 648-0461
- Anderson Interfaith Ministries - Anderson, South Carolina (864) 226-2273
- Piedmont Emergency Relief Center - Piedmont, South Carolina (864) 906-7351
- Networks of Summerville - Ridgeville, South Carolina (843) 835-2275
State Of South Carolina Potential Funding Resources
The following private and public groups are potential providers of funding for phone reassurance programs in South Carolina communities.
To obtain current information about specific South Carolina agencies and foundations that provide funding for phone reassurance commonly referred to by many community organizations as RUOK programs or Telephone Reassurance programs, please contact the respective grant provider listed below..
Note: DSC obtained the following names of foundations from public records. There is no assurance that these foundations provide funding for your specific telephone reassurance program or community notification system.
This information is provided to help you research funding for your project using community grants.
Phifer/Johnson Foundation
The Fullerton Foundation, Inc.
Wardle Family Foundation
Sonoco Foundation
Daniel-Mickel Foundation
The Ceres Foundation, Inc.
The Bailey Foundation
Liberty Corporation Foundation
Youths' Friends Association, Inc.
TSC Foundation, Inc.
The W. Hayne Hipp Foundation
Community Foundation of the Lowcountry
Ellison S. & Noel P. McKissick Foundation
The Roe Foundation
Jayvee Foundation
The Jimmy and Marsha Gibbs Foundation
The Fat Cat Foundation
Lipscomb Family Foundation
Hopewell Foundation, Inc.
The Byerly Foundation
J. E. Sirrine Textile Foundation, Inc.
The Self Family Foundation
Rose & Walter Montgomery Foundation
The Spartanburg County Foundation
Post and Courier Foundation
Drs. Bruce and Lee Foundation
Norman J. Arnold Foundation
Inman-Riverdale Foundation
William Barnet III Foundation Trust
Community Foundation of Greater Greenville, Inc.
Carolina First Foundation
The Community Foundation Serving Coastal South Carolina
J. M. Smith Foundation
Central Carolina Community Foundation
Robert S. Campbell Foundation
Mary Black Foundation, Inc.
The Arkwright Foundation
The Springs Close Foundation, Inc.
AVX/Kyocera Foundation
The Abney Foundation
* "Are You OK?"® and RUOK® are registered names of Northland Innovation Corporation. The terms "RUOK" and "Telephone Reassurance" are commonly used on many community websites that offer both automated and volunteer based telephone reassurance programs.
For a comparison with our CARE system, please visit our RUOK vs CARE web page.
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