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].
This group is recommended for parents/caregivers of children, ages 1-5 years old, with autism. Meetings on Thursday from 9:30 am to 11:00 am and the 4th Thursday from 10:00 pm to 12:00 pm.
Provides ice skating lessons and hockey leagues for all ages. Available for birthday parties. Open to the public. Call for hours of operation.
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 910-486-1605Â Â Â Â Â Â Child Service Coordinator
If your child is 3 to 5 years old............................ Call 910-484-6761Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Early-In, Cumberland County Schools
For a child under 3 years of age who is a military dependent and living on post ............Call 910-907-3347Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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. Â Also provides & skills to empowerment and skill development, provide awareness, enrichment opportunities to enhance and promote good citizenship.
The Conscious Discipline Parent Education Curriculum is a comprehensive guide for engaging families as partners in building healthy, brain-smart homes that support children’s growth and development
Prevents financial difficulties through education in sound buying practices, budgeting, money management, and the wise and proper use of credit. Advises and counsels families and individuals who are burdened with excessive indebtedness to develop a plan of liquidation within their income with the cooperation of their creditors. Offers homeownership workshops and financial workshops for children and youth.
8:00AM - 5:00PM
A program for pregnant women and moms that are in crisis. The program is for expecting mothers/fathers and any parents or grandparents with children up to 3 yrs. with special requirements. Parents can earn baby clothes, diapers, cribs, car seats, and many other necessities by learning. The program pairs a mother or a father with a counselor who meets with them for 8 weeks. Every lesson earns Mommy Dollars. This money can be spent in the Mommy Store.
Catholic Charities provides professionally-trained bilingual clinical counseling services to individuals, couples, and families.
Noncustodial Parent location, establishment of paternity/child support, and enforcement of child support orders.
Provides and supports prevention/early intervention to at-risk children and their families in Cumberland County through community-based collaboration. Provides evaluation, program development, quality improvement, substance abuse treatment, youth gang prevention/intervention, youth leadership development, prevention training/management services and community consulting.
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.
Provides various clinics including a Child Health Clinic for ages infant to 18 years old; Adult Health Clinic; WIC; Women's Preventive Health; Family Planning; Maternity Clinic; Dental Clinic. WIC and Immunizations have extended hours until 7pm on Tuesday. Care Coordination for Children is a voluntary program available to all children of Cumberland County, from birth to 5 years with special health care, developmental and social needs. Pregnancy Care Management is a voluntary program for high risk pregnant women in Cumberland County. Services provided at no cost to the participants.
We believe the most effective means is to partner with families and the neighborhoods where they live to provide early help to vulnerable families. The help we want to provide is individualized, cost effective and outcome driven. The outcome will be families who are safe, have their basic needs net and increase/maintain health.
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.
Pre-K, Elementary, Middle and High Schools in Cumberland County. Programs vary by school.
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.
E E Miller Recreation Center plans, organizes, and directs structured and affordable leisure time activities for children, adults, and seniors.
Plans, organizes, and directs structured and affordable leisure time activities for children, adults, and seniors.
