Resource Library
Help for you, curated by us.
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Carolina Swims Foundation
The Carolina Swims Foundation is a non-profit health organization equipping children with the survival life skill of swimming. They provide sponsored swim lessons and aqua-therapy to underserved children and children in foster care.
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Children's Home Society
The Children’s Home Society specializes in education and prevention programs, family preservation, and adoption and foster care. With 11 offices throughout the state, CHS supports families in every county of North Carolina.
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Children's Hope Alliance
Children’s Hope Alliance provides an array of comprehensive services and programs designed to give hope to North Carolina’s children by providing a safe home, healing their hurt, and encouraging a healthy start. Visit their website to see what services are available in your local area.
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Children's Services (NCDHHS)
Children’s Services provides health care, financial assistance and access to nutrition programs to children who require extra support. Find a child care provider, learn about child support payments and enforcement and make sure that your newborn has the proper care regardless of your financial status.
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City Lights Ministry
City Lights Ministry serves the Winston-Salem area through a variety of programs and resources. They are actively in the community with mobile trucks taking food, clothes, toys, and beds into neighborhoods. They also offer an early learning program as well as after school tutoring. They are committed loving others where they are and building relationships along the way.
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Community Resource Guide (Davie County)
This pdf guide provides a list of locations and contacts in Davie County for resources regarding: childcare, clothing, education/training, employment, family services, financial, food, health/medical, housing assistance, legal, local government, and transportation.
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Community Resource Guide (Yadkin County)
This pdf guide provides helpful child development information as well as a list of locations and contacts in Yadkin County for resources regarding: childcare, clothing, education/training, employment, family services, financial, food, health/medical, housing assistance, legal, local government, and transportation.
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Creating A Family
Creating a Family is a national adoption and foster care education and support organization. They work to strengthen foster, adoptive, and kinship families and the professionals who support them by creating expert-based, trauma-informed resources, community support, and training.
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Crossnore Communities for Children
Crossnore Communities for Children creates healthy futures for children and families by providing a Christian sanctuary of hope and healing. They take a holistic approach, offering services like on-site medical care, trauma-based therapy, a wide variety of extracurricular enrichment activities, and educational services, making them a unique place for children to live, learn, and grow. Crossnore currently has three campuses located in Crossnore, Winston-Salem and Hendersonville.
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The Dragonfly House
The Dragonfly House provides confidential, coordinated services to boys and girls ages birth-age 17 including: forensic interviews, child abuse medical exams, victim advocacy and support, mental health treatment, coordinated case review services, and community outreach and education. All services are free of charge and offered for the life of their case and for as long as they need afterwards.
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Family Room Triad
Family Room Triad is place where families who foster can come and receive the physical resources they need such as beds, clothes, strollers, cribs, bedding and more at no cost to them. Family Room is located in Greensboro but available to foster families from any location.
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Heroes Helping Heroes
Heroes Helping Heroes provides mentoring, health, and wellness solutions to at-risk orphans and foster children. The domestic division is based in North Carolina and consists of Seeds of Hope Camp, mentorship programs, and parent/guardian support.
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Seven Homes
Seven Homes has been a beacon of support across North Carolina since 1995. Beyond initial training and licensing, they offer continuous assistance as families navigate the complexities of foster care. Seven Homes has three locations in Greensboro, Gastonia and Raleigh.
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Institute for Family
At the Institute for Family, the approach to investing in family well-being includes family-centered education, policy advocacy that supports all families, and amplifying voices with lived expertise on child welfare involvement and systems that impact families most. The Institute is a program of the Children’s Home Society of North Carolina.
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Imprints Cares
Imprints Cares promotes positive parenting, improves social determinants of health, enhances opportunities for children and their families, and helps break the cycle of poverty. Their “Ready for School” and “Expanded Learning” programs focus on educational and developmental milestones from birth - middle school.
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The Parenting PATH
The Parenting PATH seeks to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect in northwest North Carolina through a variety of services aimed at strengthening families, enhancing parent-child relationships and increasing community awareness. Their programs offer evidence-based interventions for families with children age 0-18 years old. They currently offer services in eight counties in northwestern NC.
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Stokes Partnership for Children
The Stokes Partnership for Children educates the community on the critical needs of young children and provides various programs for children age 0-5 and their families with Smart Start and NC Pre-K funds from the state legislature.
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Fostering Matters
Fostering Matters, Inc. was started on August 26, 2021 as a purpose and a passion for foster parents. The organization has set out to be a place of support and encouragement to all foster parents. The founder of the organization, Tisha Nicholson, is a former foster child and with that unique perspective- she saw the unmet needs of foster parents. She is here to support and advocate for foster families.