How to Get Involved

We at the Family Center need your help!

The vision we have of loving and safe communities where families and children can thrive holistically can only happen if we have help from people like you!

The good news is that child abuse and neglect and childhood trauma is 100% preventable but this dream can only occur with donations of your time, your talents, and your generous gifts.

Monetary gifts will be used to strengthen our programs through purchasing needed resources, getting much needed staff training to better serve our clients, ensuring the staff are appropriately compensated for their expertise and hard work of helping families, and increasing the number of families served that grants don’t pay for with their funds.

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Donate Goods

Generous donations of goods help us to provide better services to families and give families direct needed supports. The following needs are always present at the agency:

Office Supplies
Baby/Toddler clothes -gently used or new
Diapers & Wipes- all sizes
Baby Care Items
Basic Care Items (shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, soap, etc.)-new
Household Items (sheets, dishes, utensils, pots/pans, towels)- new
Gift Cards (food, grocery stores, Walmart, target, gas, etc.)

It Takes a Village

Volunteer!

Volunteer

Do you feel passionate about helping families and children? Do you want to be apart of noble mission and help our vision to become a reality? Do you feel that you have time and energy to provide direct support and wisdom to our staff and our families? Then please consider these opportunities below:

Volunteer Parent Aide: trained parent supportive volunteers working directly one on one with families in need of help.
Volunteer Mentors: trained mentors matched with at-risk youth for a year to help them feel supported and learn life skills.
Volunteer Advisory Council and Board Members: join a dynamic group of passionate professionals that want to directly impact our agency on a deeper level.

Alamance County: (336) 229-2908 or (336) 570-6532 or after-hours call: (336) 570-6777

Orange County: (919)245-2818 or after-hours call: (919) 732-5063

Person County: (336) 597-8361 or after-hours call: (336) 597-0500

Caswell County: (336) 694-4141

Guilford County: (336) 641-3795 or after hours: 1-800-378-5315

Randolph County: (336) 683-8200

Chatham County: (919) 542-2759

I Need Help! For immediate help, or if you would like to make a referral, please call us 24/7 at 336-227-5601.

200 North Main Street Graham, NC 27253

We proudly support the people and the families of Alamance, Orange, Chatham, Caswell, Person, Guilford, and Randolph counties.

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Adverse Childhood Experiences are negative experiences in childhood that can dramatically affect how our brain grows and develops and how our body develops. Studies have found that the more experiences we have throughout our childhood the more likely later in life we are to incur health problems, diseases, substance misuse problems, mental health issues, and learning disabilities. The original ACE Study was conducted at Kaiser Permanente from 1995 to 1997. Over 17,000 Health Maintenance Organization members from Southern California receiving physical exams completed confidential surveys regarding their childhood experiences and current health status and behaviors. These surveys led to knowledge of how childhood experiences can impact our future health, mental health, choices, relationships, and success in life. The 10 ACEs the researchers measured were: Physical, sexual and verbal abuse; Physical and emotional neglect; A family member who is: depressed or diagnosed with other mental illness, addicted to alcohol or another substance, in prison; Witnessing a mother/family member being abused; and losing a parent to separation, divorce or other reason.

Complex childhood trauma is when children grow up in homes and communities where multiple traumas occur throughout their lifetime and are chronic. The good news is trauma’s effects can be reversed when communities and families learn to put a child’s safety first and put in place other protective factors that will increase a child’s resiliency. Resiliency is the ability to recover quickly from difficulties. Resiliency is evidence that our brains can adapt and recover from traumas. We at the Family Center believe that increasing resiliency in families and children is key to preventing and treating childhood trauma. All of our programs are designed to do just this, increase resiliency! Give us a call at 336-227-5601 if you would like to enroll into our services or want to learn more about how to prevent trauma and increase resiliency. Please help us to make Childhood trauma a thing of the past!

Sarah Black,
Executive Director