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].
Newcomer information about Fort Bragg and the surrounding area; welcome packets/worldwide installation information (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines).
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.
Plans, organizes, and directs structured affordable leisure time activities for children, adults, and seniors.
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.
Provides services to strengthen and facilitate the educational process by identifying, modifying, and removing barriers to learning with a focus on the areas of: homelessness, child abuse and neglect, academic and behavior concerns, attendance, health concerns, substance abuse, family violence, mental health concerns, and family crisis.
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.
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Other appointment times are available on a as needed basic.
The Easterseals UCP Dorothy Spainhour Child Development Center provides quality early care and education services for children from six weeks to 5 years old. Although Easterseals UCP is known for its work with children with disabilities, this children’s center provides an inclusive program for typical learners as well as children with special needs. Our center is licensed through NC Division of Child Development Early Education as a 5 star center with special Developmental Day Certification. This program is also an NC Pre-k site for Cumberland County.
Special Assistance provides a cash supplement to individuals to help pay for room and board in an adult care home or group home.
Long Term Care provides a cash supplement to individuals to help pay for room and board in a long term care/skilled nursing facility.
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
The Resource Center houses several Cumberland County agencies including Cumberland County Department of Social Services, Cumberland County Mental Health, Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office and Cumberland County Workforce Development. The Employment Security Commission (321-6460) representative is there 2 days per week.
