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].
Plans, organizes, and directs structured and affordable leisure time activities for children, adults, and seniors.
An annual contest sponsored by the National ASYMCA, open to family members (pre-school through high school) of all active duty service members, Reserves, National Guard, DoD civilian employees, and Retirees. This essay contest promotes reading among children and teens, and encourages parents to find time to sit down and read with their younger children.
Fascinate-U Children's Museum provides children the opportunity to explore their world the way they learn best. Whether they be through creative role-playing, manipulation, interaction with each other and/or objects around them. Birthday party and group rates available.
Judo instruction at the club stresses respect, control, and dignity in addition to athletic ability. Membership fees are affordable thanks to the Fayetteville Police Department and our volunteer coaches. The Police Department allows us to use the Police Training Facility for instruction and classes. Our coaches volunteer immeasurable hours teaching and working with students. The only compensation they need is the reward of knowing Fayetteville Ft. Bragg Judo Club members are more knowledgeable, more skilled and more confident.
Coordinates the planning and execution of the annual Dogwood Festival, held the 4th weekend in April. This event encompasses approximately 30 events which target all members of the community. Also coordinates an annual fall event called Historic Hauntings: A Ghastly Ghost Tour. This tour, conducted via hayride, explores the mysterious happenings of downtown Fayetteville with ghostly re-enactors and story-tellers highlighting the history and spooky legends of the past.
Health club, sports, exercise groups for men and women, informal educational classes, day camp recreational facilities and programs. Annual memberships fees or per class fees may apply. Youth sports programs, daycare, sleep-ins, after school care and summer day camp.
Concerts. Please see our website for schedule and ticket prices.
4th Friday is a true celebration of the arts and downtown. Folks of all ages get a taste of Fayetteville's art and entertainment while enjoying the small galleries, bookstores, bistros and shops with unique items for shoppers. It's safe, it's fun ... and it's free!
Honors the men, women, and units of the Armed Forces and veterans who have been in service to the country in WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
Plans, organizes, and directs structured and affordable leisure times for children, adults, and seniors.
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.
Myers Recreation Center plans, organizes, and directs structured and affordable leisure time activities for children, adults, and seniors. Parks
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.
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.
The Habitat for Humanity-Fayetteville Area provides affordable housing for low-income families in Cumberland, Bladen, and Sampson counties. Volunteers provide funds, land, labor, materials, and administrative assistance to build homes that are sold to low-income families through no-interest loans. Selected families participate in the construction. They also accept donations of money, tools, and new building materials.
An annual event held in April that celebrates kids' health issues, to include the spirit and minds, as well as the body. These free event features live snakes, the climbing wall, tie-dying, baseball throw, face painting, bubble making, K-9 demonstration, castle bouncer, basketball, and lots of free give-a-ways.
Plans, organize,and directs structured and affordable leisure time activities for children, adults and seniors.
Offers child care, sleep-ins, after school care, youth sports programs, aquatics, and summer day camp. Learning Center can be reached at 527-6777.
Includes Hope Mills Lake, 6 baseball fields, 2 tennis courts, 1 basketball court, playground, 0.6 mile walking/bike path, picnic shelters and the community center.
