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 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.
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.
