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].
Honors the men, women, and units of the Armed Forces and veterans who have been in service to the country in WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
Plans, organizes, and directs structured and affordable leisure times for children, adults, and seniors.
Plans, organizes, and directs structured and affordable leisure time activities for children, adults, and seniors.
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.
If you are a grandparent raising your grandchildren you are not alone. There are approximately 2.5 million grandparents in the US who are solely responsible for the basic needs of their grandchildren. In Cumberland County, 3,783 grandparents are raising their grandchildren. Having someone who understands what you are going through can make a world of difference. The Partnership for Children of Cumberland County hosts a Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Support Group just for this reason. Our support group meets monthly and provides a way for grandparents to share stories and tips, spend times with others who are in similar situations, and learn about services available in the community.
Plans, organizes, and directs structured and affordable leisure time activities for children, adults, and seniors.
The Guardian Ad Litem Program are a group of trained community volunteers, that are court-appointed, to represent and promote the best interests of abused and neglected children in the states court system. With the assistance of attorney advocates and staff supervisors, these volunteers work toward a plan to ensure that the children are in a safe, permanent, and loving home, as quickly as possible.
The Habitat for Humanity-Fayetteville Area provides affordable housing for low-income families in Cumberland, Bladen, and Sampson counties. Volunteers provide funds, land, labor, materials, and administrative assistance to build homes that are sold to low-income families through no-interest loans. Selected families participate in the construction. They also accept donations of money, tools, and new building materials.
Head Start is a federal matching grant program that was initiated in the mid-1960s as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's "War on Poverty." The mission of the Head Start program is to "promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to enrolled children and families" (ACF, 2008). For eligible low-income children, Head Start provides free access to preschools, which are provided primarily in centers and are expected to conform to a specific set of guidelines laid out in the Head Start Program Performance Standards and other regulations (45 CFR 1301-1311, 2006). In addition to early childhood education, Head Start incorporates parental involvement and facilitates access to health care services; most Head Start programs also provide at least one meal to children during the day. The program requirements are flexible to meet the needs of the community, allowing individual programs to determine such program characteristics as the number of hours per day, or months per year, that a participation must attend; curriculum; teacher salary; and mode of delivery (in a home, a school, or a center)
Provides a planned, sequential K-12 program that integrates information about specific health topics, capable of enhancing the quality of life, raising the level of health, and favorably influencing the learning process.
An annual event held in April that celebrates kids' health issues, to include the spirit and minds, as well as the body. These free event features live snakes, the climbing wall, tie-dying, baseball throw, face painting, bubble making, K-9 demonstration, castle bouncer, basketball, and lots of free give-a-ways.
Provides charitable, educational, humanitarian, and social services to the residents of the Cumberland County and surrounding communities.
The Hispanic Affairs Office works with the Hispanic Community throughout North Carolina.
Plans, organize,and directs structured and affordable leisure time activities for children, adults and seniors.
Offers resources for county residents to fill their informational/recreational reading needs; comprehensive collection of books (including foreign language and ESL materials), magazines, audio/video/DVD materials, local newspapers, access to online databa
Includes Hope Mills Lake, 6 baseball fields, 2 tennis courts, 1 basketball court, playground, 0.6 mile walking/bike path, picnic shelters and the community center.
Helps unemployed and underemployed people find jobs or training. Offers classes and seminars for self-improvement and job seeking skills, such as resume writing, interviewing techniques, career planning and communication skills. Books and materials are furnished. Call for class times. Classes include online job search and application skills.
In-School Scouting is an optional coeducational opportunity for separate EC classes that provides hands on scouting experiences during the school day for students with disabilities. The leaders of the troops are the classroom teachers and teacher assistants. The scouts are registered members of Boy Scouts of America and Pines of Carolina (Girl Scouts), and experience modified activities that may lead to earning badges. In the past, the activities have included attending jamborees, enjoying field trips, and participating in Days of Caring.
ESUCP may provide scholarships (when available) for inclusion placement within the Children's Centers.
