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].
Financial assistance to families who qualify.
Fri 8:00am - Noon
After-hours appointments available
Plans, adminsters, and advocates services for young children and their families. Provides funding for programs and services for young children under six years of age and their families, and access to high-quality and affordable childcare, health care, and other critical family services.
Friday 8-12 Noon
PFC Family Resource Center creates a collaborative relationship maximizing community resources that meet the needs of children and families which include better access to services, information, resources, and needs identified in studies conducted by the Partnership for Children (PFC) and other community efforts. Our Information Referral Assistant (IRA) is available to answer telephone calls for each agency and provides information related to those agencies as a point of contact; whenever possible, greets and assists visitors. Office equipment is available to our partners & non-profit agencies at a competitive price.
Provides affordable leisure activities for youth, adults and seniors.
We are a community of over 200 full time associates. Our services are provided by licensed professionals all of whom have a Master’s Degree level education. Treatment team’s help families map a positive path for their lives and develop nurturing relationships at home and in the community that can support them in life. The team supports the family by: reducing behavioral symptoms, helping to identify and set positive goals, strenghtening parenting skills, teaching communication skills, anger management skills and providing 24/7/365 crisis support.
Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina (PCANC) is the only statewide organization dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. Through investment in innovative programs proven to prevent child maltreatment before it occurs, PCANC helps North Carolina's communities decrease factors that put children at risk for abuse and increase factors that encourage children to thrive. Through our offices in Raleigh, we serve every community in North Carolina.
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.
Provides assistance to eligible applicants whose residence was damaged during Hurricane Matthew. Services include grants to repair or rebuild houses and mobile homes, grants to completely replace mobile homes, reimbursement for money previously spent on repairs, homeowner buyout for unsalvageable homes, relocation assistance, and assistance for landlords with damaged rental properties.
Our youth program focuses on academic and character education to help reduce juvenile delinquency. Our adult program focuses on vocational and character education to help reduce recidivism.
Provides institutional group care for displaced and broken-home children between the ages of 0 and 21 years old. Social worker and ministerial counseling services are available. Students attend public school and private on-campus school. Transitional Living Program- that teaches children how to prepare for life on their own. Mothers and Babies Program, Maternity Home, and Adoption Services.
Offers care for before and after school with options for before school only or after school only. Separate SAS camps are operated during winter and spring breaks for those who normally do not require daily before and after school care. During the summer, SAS operates a full day camp option in ten one-week sessions and eight one-week half day sessions.
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.
The City of Fayetteville Community Development Deparmtne operates a network of neighborhood resource centers located throughout the city. The centers are in low to moderate income communites to give citizens convenient access to resource. The primary focus is to provide the adult job seeker with educational tools and special training that will enhance employability.
Distributes food to non-profit organizations that deal with the needy, including church pantries, soup kitchens, child-care providers and senior-citizen programs. Accepts donations of food.
The SECOND STEP early learning program is designed specifically for multiple-age early learning classrooms. The program is taught through 28 weekly themes, consisting of short activities to be done throughout the week. The activities build on each other to develop children’s self-regulation skills and social-emotional competence.
Employment Source provides vocational training and employment programs for adults with disabilities. They operate an in-house work facility that employs disabled adults, and also place individuals in meaningful employment with local businesses and government agencies in the community. They provide vocational evaluation, job placement, job seeking skills classes, and counseling. Job training areas are in hand assembly, packaging, groundskeeping, janitorial, clerical, industrial welding, and retailing. Workshop items are for sale at the thrift store. Also accepts donations of used computers. Donating an old monitor costs $10, to offset costs of disposing lead in the monitors.
Smart Start is a comprehensive public-private community-based initiative to help all North Carolina children enter school ready to succeed. Created in 1993, the primary focus of Smart Start is to provide families with access to high-quality childcare. The program is predicated on the notions that (1) the first six years of life are the most critical; (2) better quality childcare programs can increase a child's ability at school entry; and (3) a child's ability at school entry can often predict later academic success. Currently, 81 local partnerships, encompassing all of North Carolina's 100 counties, have begun implementation of Smart Start to assure that children in their communities begin school healthy and ready to succeed.
Smart Start's approach allows communities to make decisions and plans that are specific to the needs of their young children and families. All Smart Start programs are based on three core areas: (1) child care and education; (2) health care and education; and (3) family support and education. The individual services provided by each site under these core areas are tailored to each community depending on its specific needs, goals, and priorities. As such, the full range of services is not likely to be available at all sites.
Plans, organizes, and directs structured and affordable leisure time activities for children, adults, and seniors.
