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].
Central point on installation for information during crisis/deployment.
Prepares children and chosen family for adoptive placement, supervises placement, and recommends to the Court that the Decree of Adoption should be issued.
Promotes leadership, character, health, and career development while emphasizing social, cultural, and educational growth. Call us for more information on our After School Program.
Provides children ages 5 to 13 years old an affordable, fun, safe place to come after school; homework assistance; tutoring; games; and recreation.
Provides emergency communication link between a family with an emergency and a military service member stationed anywhere around the world.
Our goal is to help seniors and recovering patients who prefer to stay in their own home while receiving personal care. We arrange for non-medical in-home care visits from registered nurses, personal care aids, and certified nurse assistants. We carry a wide range of packages to suit a variety of budgets and needs. A 3 hour daily minimum applies.
The Bereavement Support Group of Cape Fear Valley Hospice meets at 1830 Owen Drive, Suite 203 (Bordeaux Shopping Center), Professional Offices in Fayetteville, NC. They meet on the first and third Thursdays of every month from noon to 1:30 p.m. The group is for those who are coping with the death of a loved one. For more information, please call 609-6740 or 609-6511. Chaplain Teresa Strickland at (910) 609-6710.
Support group for cancer patients and their families.
This facility provides respite care and assistance to adults who are physically impaired, socially isolated, and in need of assistance with personal care or limited in their ability to function independently due to a medical disability. This includes Alzheimer's disease. Provides assistance with tasks and activities of daily living to adults and families. They also offer recreational activities, field trips, hot lunches, and snacks.
Provides a range of services to those experiencing physical or mental abuse. Services include crisis intervention, counseling, referral services, re-education of family members and temporary housing for victims and their children.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Meals on Wheels for adults 60 and over. Minor home repair, in home-aid, telephone reassurance program, Senior companion program and Senior Health Insurance Program (SHIP) which helps to better understand medicare.
Our center offers mediation services to individuals with disputes. Both parties meet with a mediator to discuss the issues and reach a mutually satisfactory agreement. Mediators are trained volunteers who can assist you in determining what steps to take to settle the dispute. The mediator does not determine right or wrong or impose sanctions of the law. All mediation services are voluntary and non-binding.
Provides developmental day center services for children with and without special needs, birth through five years old. Children with disabilities receive educational and therapeutic intervention services in an inclusive child care center.
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.
Provides support and information to parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing, deaf parents with hearing children and the professionals who serve these families, from birth to 21.
(800) 541-4327 (V/TTY) - in North Carolina only.
