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].
PFC Family Resource Center creates a collaborative relationship maximizing community resources that meet the needs of children and families which include better access to services, information, resources, and needs identified in studies conducted by the Partnership for Children (PFC) and other community efforts. Our Information Referral Assistant (IRA) is available to answer telephone calls for each agency and provides information related to those agencies as a point of contact; whenever possible, greets and assists visitors. Office equipment is available to our partners & non-profit agencies at a competitive price.
Reach Out and Read works through medical provider offices to promote early literacy and school readiness with the distribution of new books to children starting at the six-month checkup, and by talking with parents about the importance of reading aloud to their children. Reach Out and Read utilizes the relationship between parents and medical providers to encourage the development of critical early reading skills in young children.
The Easterseals UCP Dorothy Spainhour Child Development Center provides quality early care and education services for children from six weeks to 5 years old. Although Easterseals UCP is known for its work with children with disabilities, this children’s center provides an inclusive program for typical learners as well as children with special needs. Our center is licensed through NC Division of Child Development Early Education as a 5 star center with special Developmental Day Certification. This program is also an NC Pre-k site for Cumberland County.
The Child Care WAGE$ Project provides education-based salary supplements to low-paid teachers, directors, and family child care providers working with children between the ages of birth and five. The project is designed to provide preschool children more stable relationships with better-educated teachers by rewarding teachers’ educational advancement and continuity of teachers in child care situations.