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].
Provides training which teaches families skills and helps motivate them to improve eating and physical activity behaviors to achieve a healthy weight. The training is flexible and families can participate in one to four modules: Eating Smart at Home; Eating Smart on the Run; Moving More Every Day, everywhere; and Moving More, Watching less.
Provides Transitional Housing for women recovering from substance abuse.
Provides twenty-four hour assistance and support to the public for the safety and protection of life, limb, and property through emergency communications (9-1-1 and radio communications).
Provides various clinics including a Child Health Clinic for ages infant to 18 years old; Adult Health Clinic; WIC; Women's Preventive Health; Family Planning; Maternity Clinic; Dental Clinic. WIC and Immunizations have extended hours until 7pm on Tuesday. Care Coordination for Children is a voluntary program available to all children of Cumberland County, from birth to 5 years with special health care, developmental and social needs. Pregnancy Care Management is a voluntary program for high risk pregnant women in Cumberland County. Services provided at no cost to the participants.
Provides various services, including examinations and glasses. Copayment is required.
Provides youth with positive role models by matching youth with adult volunteers in a mentor-protege relationship. Each volunteer is required to spend 4 hours per week for a full year with his or her youth.
Provide therapy and self-help groups on a variety of mental health needs. Specialize in mood disorders, behavior concerns at home and school. We also offer counseling on domestic violence and parenting children with Mental health needs.
9:00-6:00
Other appointment times are available on a as needed basic.
Providing nursing services, personal care services, home medical equipment, pharmacy services, respiratory services, and mental health services.
Public Health School Nurses audit school records for up to date immunization records. Supervise administration of medication by school staff. Provide in school screening for vision and hearing. Provide guidance for overall school health issues and links resources to children and parents.
Reach Out and Read works through medical provider offices to promote early literacy and school readiness with the distribution of new books to children starting at the six-month checkup, and by talking with parents about the importance of reading aloud to their children. Reach Out and Read utilizes the relationship between parents and medical providers to encourage the development of critical early reading skills in young children.
Recounts the social, economic, and political history of southern North Carolina. Comprised of the Museum, the 1897 Poe House, and the Arsenal.
Recruits, screens and trains foster parents to provide temporary care for children who have been removed from their home either by court order or voluntary placement agreements. The goal is for each child to be reunited with their family as quickly as possible. Speakers are available to any community group wanting to learn about foster care. Recruitment/Information Meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month, at 12 noon and 6:30 PM, on the first floor of the CCDSS building. The public is invited.
Recruits work sites for offenders who are ordered by the court to perform community service. Places offenders at government or non-profit agencies only. Provides the sentencing judge with an alternative which allows offenders to repay the community by providing needed services.
Responds to victims of tragedy ranging from single family house fires to entire communities devastated by natural disaster. Chapter volunteers who collect blood in the five counties we serve to help make it possible for countless lives to be saved. Chapter Health and Safety Services instructors train people in first aid, CPR, AED, life guarding, swimming, babysitting, caregiving, and other areas for both individuals and organizations. The Red Cross also is engaged in the global right against AIDS/HIV and is working to reduce transmission and to support those living with this disease.
School counselors facilitate positive school adjustment and educational success through student focused individual - group and family sessions. Personal - social - educational and career domains are addressed in this program
Scream Free® Marriage, a community-based program, is designed to enhance individual's and couples' emotional competency and improve their relationships.
ScreamFree® Parenting, a community-based program, is designed to help parents and caregivers learn how to respond rather than react to children's behaviors and, consequently, create peaceful, healthy relationships.
Serves as a resource and support group for anyone interested in home schooling.
Serves family and friend caregivers who provide care for sixy years and older loved ones in a community setting and provides support to sixty and over grandparents raising their grandchildren. Oversees funding and programs for informational services - counseling services - respite services and some supplemental services.
Serves individuals and families, focusing on mental health, developmental disabilities, substance abuse, and relationship issues. Assists clients in finding community based services rather than institutionalization. Offers case management, CBS counseling, psychotherapy, day rehabilitation, parent/family training, respite, supported employment, supervised living and therapeutic foster care. Spanish Language counseling available.
