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].
Concerts. Please see our website for schedule and ticket prices.
FTCC offers a comprehensive educational program, including over 150 programs of study. In addition, FTCC offers a variety of college transfer programs for those who are pursuing a baccalaureate. Their laboratories are equipped with the latest technology, and outstanding faculty and staff. They are here to assist you in reaching your educational goals. FTCC provides extensive support services that range from academic advising and counseling, to securing financial aid, to assistance in job placement, when you graduate.
Provides excellence and value in health care and benefits by providing services that are both patient centered and evidence based. Care is delivered by engaged, collaborative teams in an integrated environment that supports learning, discovery and continuous improvement.
The Fayetteville Vet Center is a community based Readjustment Counseling Service for Combat Veterans, Active Duty Service Members, and their family members. The goal of the Vet Center program is to provide a broad range of counseling services to include post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, anger management, bereavement, marriage & family counseling, and military sexual trauma.
Appointments are available, but walk-ins are accepted. We can be reached at 910-488-6252 or our 24-hour Combat Call Center at 1-877-WAR-VETS (1-877-927-8387). Veterans and Active Duty Service Members do not need to be referred, they can self-refer and walk on in for an initial assessment. The Vet Center is a fully confidential program.
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Services 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 and family training - respite - supported employment - supervised living and therapeutic foster care. Spanish language counseling available.
Visits various locations with fire engines. Sets up displays for groups of 50 or more, ages 4 years old and above.
Provides tours of the fire station. Participants will see the equipment and facilities, and hear a fire safety message. Limited to groups of 50 or less and advance notice is required.
The Food and Nutrition Services Program is a federal program that provides a monthly allotment of food stamp benefits issued via Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards (which are similar to ATM cards). The Foods and Nutrition Services Program is an entitlement program, so all eligible individuals and households can receive assistance. Food Stamp benefits may be used to purchase most food items at participating authorized retailers.
Recruits, screens and trains foster parents to provide temporary care for children who have been removed from their home either by court order or voluntary placement agreements. The goal is for each child to be reunited with their family as quickly as possible. Speakers are available to any community group wanting to learn about foster care. Recruitment/Information Meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month, at 12 noon and 6:30 PM, on the first floor of the CCDSS building. The public is invited.
Provide services that help families become self-sufficient.
Fuller Performance Learning Center (FPLC) offers a non-traditional approach to education. The FPLC's business-like environment challenges students to complete courses at an accelerated pace using an online, computer-based curriculum. The FPLC also offers unique experiences such as job shadowing, performance base learning, mentoring, and service learning.
Family therapy offered to Cumberland County adolescents and theif families to address issues of substance abuse - school problems - juvenile problems - as well as other behavior problems. FFT is an evidence based model. Therapy is offered in client's home - one of more times per week as needed.
The School Resource Officers, with the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office, provide the students that attend Cumberland County Schools in the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th grade, a program that teaches them how to deal with peer pressure, conflict resolution, and communication skills between other students and adults.The Sheriff's Office also has a summer camp that is free of charge to participants. Registration is done through the Cumberland County School System, and the number of students is limited to 80. If interested, please contact the elementary school that your child attends. Only children from 4th and 5th grade are eligible to attend.
Give Kids A Smile! The annual centerpiece of National Children. Dental Health Month. On the first Friday in February, the nation dentists will provide free oral health care services to low-income children across the country. In addition to helping children in need Give Kids A Smile! highlights for policymakers the ongoing challenges that disadvantaged children face in accessing dental care.
Support groups for those interested in homeschooling. Call for more information.
Group meets at 10 am on the last Tuesday of each month, at the Social Services Building; call for more information.
Great Expectations provides a variety of quality behavioral healthcare services throughout the state of North Carolina. They also provide a vast array of services to its consumers, ranging from outpatient services, to providing residential treatment facilities for children, adolescents, and adults.
Gang Resistance Education And Training (G.R.E.A.T.) is an evidence-based and effective gang and violence prevention program built around school-based, law enforcement officer-instructed classroom curricula. The Program is intended as an immunization against delinquency, youth violence, and gang membership for children in the years immediately before the prime ages for introduction into gangs and delinquent behavior.
If you've lost a spouse, child, family member or friend, you've probably found there are not many people who understand the deep hurt you feel. This can be a confusing time when you feel isolated and have many questions about things you've never faced before. Grief Share groups meet weekly to help you face these challenges and move toward rebuilding your life. Find a group near you by entering your zip code on our webpage.
The facility provides halfway house services to the public. The treatment center provides outpatient and residential short-term treatment care. There are special groups and programs for women and men. Special language services provided include assistance for hearing impaired, Spanish, and foreign languages other than Spanish. Payments via Medicaid, state financed insurance, Medicare, and private insurance are accepted. Payment assistance is offered by way of case by case basis.
