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 parenting education and other countywide drug prevention resources to children and families. Is available to provide after-school drug prevention programs, parenting skill development, and tobacco cessation/prevention. Coordinates the county-wide Red Ribbon Campaign, and serves as the county prevention coalition for children and families.
Color Me Healthy is an educational program designed for children ages 4 and 5 years old to teach them the importance of exercise and eating healthy. Local training is available for child care providers. Teaching materials are provided once the training is complete which teaches creative and effective ways to use the program in their facility.
Color Me Healthy is an educational program designed for children ages 4 and 5 years old to teach them the importance of exercise and eating healthy. Local training is available for child care providers. Teaching materials are provided once the training is complete which teaches creative and effective ways to use the program in their facility.
COLORS is a council working together to assist families in the Fayetteville area who may have concerns about the development of their children birth to five years. COLORS facilitates access to a comprehensive system of early intervention services for children birth to five years.
Meeting Dates and Times: We meet the first Thursday of every month (except July) at 8:30 AM at the Children’s Developmental Services Agency of the Cape Fear. Parents of children with special needs and professionals are welcome to attend.
If you have concerns regarding your child’s development, see contact information below:
If your child is under 3 years old............. ............ Call 910-486-1605 Child Service Coordinator
If your child is 3 to 5 years old............................ Call 910-484-6761 Early-In, Cumberland County Schools
For a child under 3 years of age who is a military dependent and living on post ............Call 910-907-3347 Educational & Developmental Intervention Services
For a child 3 to 5 years of age who is a military dependent and living on post ............................................. Call 910-907-0252 Fort Bragg Schools
Provides programs for youth to help with social, physical, and educational development. Offers tutoring, competitive reading programs, education field trips, and a recreational program during the summer months.
Provides services to the deaf and hard of hearing, by providing interpreter assessment and training, outreach and educational services in the community, advocacy services, information and referral services, and communication support services. There are seven regional resource centers throughout the state.
Provides home and community based services to medically fragile children who because of their medical needs are at risk for institutionalization in a nursing home. They are a bridge between family, needed services, Department of Social Services, Division of Medical Assistance, physicians and therapists.
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.
Helping individuals, families, and communities put research-based knowledge to work to improve their lives.
The Café is designed to meet the needs of the homeless and less fortunate in our city. The Café is open every Wednesday from 10 am until 12 pm Come to the Café for free hot meal great fellowship, prayer and encouragement from Evans Ministries.
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.
