Family Services Programs

Nurturing Parenting Program

Home visitation and group-based program for parents/caregivers with children birth to 18 years of age, utilizing the Nurturing Parenting Program to increase parenting skills and knowledge.

Parent Education

Weekly parenting classes held at local homeless shelters to help support children and families during crisis.

Strengthening Families Program

A 14-week, evidence-based Parenting Education Program and social skills group for children ages 6-11. Dinner, childcare, and transportation provided.

Incredible Years

A 14-week, evidence-based Parenting Education Program for parents with children ages 3-6. Dinner, childcare, and transportation provided.

Supervised Visitation

The Children's Center Supervised Visitation Program provides a safe space for non-custodial parents to visit with their children under the supervision of a third-party.


Behavioral Health Programs

Individual and Family Counseling

Provides counseling services for victims of crime, abuse and/or violence ages 7-17. Clinicians utilize the evidence-based techniques of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and provide comprehensive risk assessments, safety/crisis planning, individual treatment plans and weekly counseling sessions.

Fresh Start

Provides counseling services for court-involved level two youth ages 12-18 and their caregivers in Surry and Stokes counties. Clinicians utilize the evidence-based techniques of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in individual and group sessions to help develop critical thinking and positive coping skills. The program also strives to enhance the family system with the development of short and long-term goals. The family system can be improved through positive interactions and reduce the risk of out-of-home placement. Complimentary dinner and gas cards are provided to families for group sessions.

W.A.A.Y. to Success

Provides counseling services for court-involved level two youth ages 10-18 and their caregivers in Wilkes, Ashe, Alleghany and Yadkin counties. Clinicians utilize the evidence-based techniques of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in individual and group sessions to help develop critical thinking and positive coping skills. The program also strives to enhance the family system with the development of short and long-term goals. The family system can be improved through positive interactions and reduce the risk of out-of-home placement. Complimentary dinner and gas cards are provided to families for group sessions.

Outpatient Counseling

Provides clinical services for those actively enrolled in Medicaid or NC Healthchoice. The program helps clients address problems that may be the result of emotional or behavioral turmoil in their lives. Services are provided by licensed clinicians and use a Cognitive Behavioral approach to identify barriers, set goals, and teach new coping skills that can improve current level of functioning.


Youth Programs

Girls Circle

Three circle models that empower and unite! Girls Circle addresses conditions and risks and builds on protective factors, for ages 9-18.

Council for Boys & Young Men

Promotes a healthy passage through pre-teen and adolescent years, for ages 9-18.

Why Try

Why Try Program is based on sound empirical principles, including solution-focused brief therapy, social and emotional intelligence, and multisensory learning.

Real World

Real World is an event that teaches financial literacy through real life simulation. It gives students the chance to dream about their future while still being mindful of the steps to reach their goal. Not all students have someone who discusses career possibilities with them. On the day of the prep work, the Real-World coordinator goes into the classrooms and frontloads the students with why we are having the event. The coordinator walks the students through a career cluster inventory, finding jobs within their career cluster, calculating their gross monthly salary, calculating taxes based on their salary, the positive and negative impacts of getting a loan, how to cut corners by having a roommate and the difference between needs and wants. At the end of the event, the coordinator guides a time of reflection and asks students to take their budget sheets home to discuss with their parents.

Youth M.O.V.E.

A youth-driven program dedicated to improving services and systems that support positive growth and development. This is accomplished by uniting the voices of individuals who have personal experience in various systems such as, mental health, Juvenile Justice, education, and child welfare.

Teen Court

A restorative justice diversion program, in which youth make restitution for harm they have caused through community service, letters of apology, essays, jury duties, and educational assignments.

Community Service & Restitution

Referred by Juvenile Justice staff, law enforcement agencies, and juvenile or teen courts, youth make amends for their actions through meaningful community service.

Life Skills and Independent Living

Life skills and independent living services are offered for children in foster care.