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].
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.
Employment Source provides vocational training and employment programs for adults with disabilities. They operate an in-house work facility that employs disabled adults, and also place individuals in meaningful employment with local businesses and government agencies in the community. They provide vocational evaluation, job placement, job seeking skills classes, and counseling. Job training areas are in hand assembly, packaging, groundskeeping, janitorial, clerical, industrial welding, and retailing. Workshop items are for sale at the thrift store. Also accepts donations of used computers. Donating an old monitor costs $10, to offset costs of disposing lead in the monitors.
Offers independent living services for people who are visually impaired to help them achieve the maximum level of self-sufficiency.
Provides independent living skills, educational,and social programs for blind and visually impaired adults and school-aged children.
Through a variety of programs, the agency provides rehabilitation services for individuals with vocational goals who are blind, visually impaired, deaf-blind, or multi-handicapped. Rehabilitation counselors work one-on-one with participants to determine which rehabilitation services are needed for them to become self-sufficient.
This program works with at-risk youth and typically developing adolescents to build citizenship and leadership skills using an asset and community service orientation.
