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].
The C.A.R.E. Clinic (Compassion, Assistance, Referral, and Education Clinic), provides free basic primary health care for uninsured Cumberland County adults who have limited incomes. The services include primary medical care, dental extractions, chiropractic care, limited pharmacy services, routine laboratory test, social services, education, and referrals to other resources in the community.
Clinics are held every Tuesday and Thursday and the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, beginning at 4:00pm.
Carolina Collaborative Community Care offers care management and disease management services to improve health outcomes and reduce Medicaid care cost. Serving Carolina Access Medicaid patients and their medical providers located in Cumberland County. To receive services, clients must be a Carolina Access Medicaid enrollee.
ABCD is an intervention in primary-care physician offices.[1] An ABCD staff person provides technical assistance and/or support to deliver high-quality comprehensive primary health care, including medical professionals’ use of standardized, validated, developmental and behavioral screening tools. If a developmental disability, delay, or other concern is identified through the screening process, a referral is made to connect the family with the services and resources needed for their child.
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.
The Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care is the two-state association representing over 100 hospice providers in North and South Carolina. The organization provides support to local hospice programs through technical assistance, education, and advocacy in the state legislatures, state regulatory bodies, and Congress. Hospice care is currently available in every North and South Carolina county. In 2010, more than 70,000 patients and their families were served in the Carolinas.
Emergency assistance includes food - rent - utilities - local bus passes - baby clothes, and other items. Family support casework management and psychosocial counseling are also available.
Food Pantry Hours: Mon. - Thurs. 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Emergency assistance includes food - rent - utilities - local bus passes - baby clothes and other items. Family support casework management and psycho-social counseling is also available.
Catholic Charities provides professionally-trained bilingual clinical counseling services to individuals, couples, and families.
Catholic Charities provides tangible assistance to alleviate food insecurity for those who seek out assistance
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Marie’s Baby Closet features items for babies and small children such as diapers, clothing from 0-5T for boys and girls, formula, baby blankets, baby food, coats, and much more.
The Center for Economic Empowerment and Development is a Lease to Home program. The C.E.E.D is an innovative program focused on assisting people in transitioning from homelessness to home ownership. The main purpose of this program, is to offer individuals and families from all backgrounds, an affordable and safe place to live. This includes rentals as well as the opportunity to become homeowners.
The Lease to Home Program is an innovative program focused on assisting people in transition from homelessness to home ownership. The main purpose of this program is to offer individuals and families from all backgrounds an affordable and safe place to live.This includes rentals as well as the opportunity to become home owners.
The New Choices Program is designed to help displaced homemakers make the often difficult transition from the home into the work force. It provides individuals with job skills and education to promote confidence and economic self-sufficiency.
The Women's Business Center (WBC) provides technical assistance and support to women entrepreneurs who are looking to start or expand their small businesses. We provide assistance to women in the phrases of small business:start up assistance,, education/training, finance, management and marketing.
Provides developmental child care in three delivery systems: center based, home based, and alternative child care options through Supplemental Programs and Services. Child care provisions can be made for children from four weeks of age to 12 years for full day, part day, hourly, extended, long term and special needs care. Programs are offered in eleven development centers: Alexander, Bauguess, Cook, Eagle, Fernandez, Loredo, Maholic, Prager, Rodgers, Rodriguez and Stout.
Provides after school programs and recreational activities for military dependents and those who are military affiliated. Call for hours of operation.
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.
Joining hands with community partners we provide a safe and child-friendly Center that supports the prevention, investigation and prosecution of child abuse. We provide forensic interviewing services, and victim family advocacy to referred clients. We provide prevention programs to professionals and the community at-large such as
Annual Community Prevention Breakfast
Community Pinwheel Campaign
Human Trafficking Awareness Forum
Launching Hope
Partner in Prevention (PIP)
Professional Educational Trainings for Child Abuse Investigators
Stewards of Children Training
The City of Fayetteville Community Development Department operates a network of Neighborhood Resource Centers located throughout the city. The centers are in low to moderate-income communities to give citizens convenient access to resources. The primary focus is to provide the adult job seeker 18 years and older with educational tools and special training that will enhance employability.
