Image: Palm Beach Post.
Image: Palm Beach Post.
Today, she has grown the agency’s programming in sites across Lake Worth, providing tutoring, homework assistance, computer training, mentoring, conflict resolution, music dance, field trips, and family support services, such as mental health counseling, health education, case management, and a weekly education program broadcast in local radio station and Tele Ibo to more than 400 children ages 3-18. Reggie, the chief executive officer of For The Children, developed the vision for the organization when her previous nonprofit employer, which had provided some after-school services, dissolved. She was determined to continue providing structured after-school activities to keep youth off the streets, out of trouble and from failing school.
In addition to For The Children, Reggie, a native of Haiti, created the Haitian Citizen United Taskforce in 2002 to empower Haitian-Americans and immigrants through naturalization, voter registration, get-out-to-vote efforts and public forums with elected local, state and federal public officials. In 2003, Reggie founded the Tribune, a one-hour Saturday afternoon radio program to educate the community in areas including childrearing and family issues, immigration and law. Guests are interviewed in English, Creole and Spanish.
Reggie’s business sense and determination to help children and their families has enabled her to gain the support of the business community in creating a program that has grown and become an admired model of quality in child care in our area.
In addition, Reggie has been involved with the Lake Worth Kiwanis, SACC, FASSA, Palm Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition, and as an Academic Advisor Committee member of the Palm Beach County School District. Plus, she has received several awards for her work, including the South Conference Women’s Missionary Society and the Dr. Martin Luther King Leadership Award.
