The Family Focus Guide helps families and individuals in and around the Fayetteville area find resources in our community.
If you have a service-focused organization that serves families in the Fayetteville, Cumberland County area and would like to be listed, please email us at [email protected].
Community Center
The Salvation Army Community Center emphasizes positive, healthy experiences for at risk youth. We have adopted a three-point focus: Education, Recreation & Sports, and Families. The Community Center provides after-school care for many low income residents. Tuition is based on guardian income. These children are taught stress, character, and leadership development, education, life skills, creativity, fitness and recreation. Resources available to our staff and children include a gym, recreation area, and computer lab equipped with high speed internet service.
Provides information and education about asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, tuberculosis, smoking cessation, prevention programs, and other lung diseases. Scholarships available for children with asthma to attend a week-long summer camp.
Provides free HIV, Sickle Cell, Diabetes, Glucose and Syphilis Testing
Community helps Network is a privately owned agency that initiates, provides and promotes services for people with mental illness and their families with the communities, in order to strengthen their independence, self-esteem and ability to participate in and contribute to community life.
Holistic hospice care during the final stages of life limiting illness to promote dignity and pain free living.
Community resources, referral, support organization& providing advocacy, mentoring, skills and leadership development, awareness and enrichment opportunities. Also provides & skills to empowerment and skill development, provide awareness, enrichment opportunities to enhance and promote good citizenship.
The Community Service Center provides emergency clothing and limited food items for those in need.
Provides remedial instruction to eligible learning-delayed, MR-documented adults 18 years of age or older. Included in the program are lessons in reading, mathematics, social sciences, and consumer education.
Connections of Cumberland County operates the only “walk-in” Day Resource Center with intensive case management specifically designed to serve women and children who are homeless or facing homelessness. Our goal is to assist our clients to become safe and self-sufficient by collaborating with all homeless services possible. We avoid unnecessary duplication of existing services and collaborate to efficiently leverage available services. Our guiding principle is that every child needs a safe and nurturing environment in order to grow to be a responsible, self-reliant adult, and every homeless mother needs shelter in order to improve her life and the lives of her children.
Take New Clients: Tue & Thu Only 9:00am-3:30pm
Outreach mentoring program that offers teens hope and a place for them to belong. Teen Talk features real life circumstances that our teens are facing on a daily basis. These circumstances will be illustrated through skits, singing, praise dancing, and testimonials. Since many of our youth will face the crossroad experience, we want to show them what will happen when they choose the wrong or right road.
Meals on Wheels for adults 60 and over. Minor home repair, in home-aid, telephone reassurance program, Senior companion program and Senior Health Insurance Program (SHIP) which helps to better understand medicare.
Our center offers mediation services to individuals with disputes. Both parties meet with a mediator to discuss the issues and reach a mutually satisfactory agreement. Mediators are trained volunteers who can assist you in determining what steps to take to settle the dispute. The mediator does not determine right or wrong or impose sanctions of the law. All mediation services are voluntary and non-binding.
Offers general domestic and juvenile court information, agency referrals, case management, and specialized court programs for families in litigation. The Access & Visitation Program assists non-custodial parents with visitation issues. Safe Havens Supervised Visitation Center provides supervised visits and monitored exchanges to families with domestic violence issues or where there are concerns regarding child safety.
The Cumberland County HIV/AIDS Task Force functions as a clearinghouse for information and education on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). In conjunction with its other missions, it works to assist family members and significant others with the establishment of a strong HIV/AIDS support network.
This program aids disabled veterans in preparing themselves for work, find employment, and keep it.
A NC DJJDP funded partnership with local law enforcement, Fayetteville Urban Ministry Cumberland County Schools, Community Corrections, and other private and public agencies to reduce youth gang violence and activities throughout Cumberland County.
Program for uninsured, low-income with hypertension, diabetes, asthma, and congestive heart failure.
The mission of Juvenile Detention Centers is to provide a safe, secure, humane environment for staff and juveniles; to provide juveniles an opportunity for behavioral change; and to provide quality services and programs for juveniles based on their individual needs.
Provides clinical and preventive dental services for children from birth to 20 years of age to include:exams, radiographs, hygiene education education, cleanings, fluoride, sealants, fillings, extractions, space maintenance, stainless steel crowns and referrals.Interpreters are available upon request. During the school year, we conduct dental screenings for public school children attending pre-K, kindergarten, secondd grade, exceptional children, and fifth grade classes.
Provides developmental day center services for children with and without special needs, birth through five years old. Children with disabilities receive educational and therapeutic intervention services in an inclusive child care center.
