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].
Provides youth with positive role models by matching youth with adult volunteers in a mentor-protege relationship. Each volunteer is required to spend 4 hours per week for a full year with his or her youth.
In-School Scouting is an optional coeducational opportunity for separate EC classes that provides hands on scouting experiences during the school day for students with disabilities. The leaders of the troops are the classroom teachers and teacher assistants. The scouts are registered members of Boy Scouts of America and Pines of Carolina (Girl Scouts), and experience modified activities that may lead to earning badges. In the past, the activities have included attending jamborees, enjoying field trips, and participating in Days of Caring.
This is an intensive, wrap-around program for high-risk, court involved youth that uses a restorative justice, personal responsibility and social/cognitive skills building approach.
Finds mentors for youth who have at least one parent in prison. These children are also able to participate in our weekly Interpersonal Skills sessions.
A mentoring program conducted at post-elementary schools that not only improves self-esteem and grades but also allows children to find there are “heroes” inside each of them. The program, which runs for 10 weeks a year, targets children from 6-12 years of age that are experiencing temporary difficulty in school, either socially or academically. Referred by teachers, parents, or school officials, the bi-weekly sessions provide after-school homework assistance and mentoring in a small group.
This is an evidence based substance abuse alcohol model that engages communities in a comprehensive way toward developing and maintaining systems of care for at-risk and substance using youth; Reclaiming Futures is a nationally evaluated model (see www.reclaimingfutures.org) now being implemented in Cumberland County.
Our youth program focuses on academic and character education to help reduce juvenile delinquency. Our adult program focuses on vocational and character education to help reduce recidivism.
This program works with at-risk youth and typically developing adolescents to build citizenship and leadership skills using an asset and community service orientation.
