Barium Springs Home for Children
General Contact Information:
Barium Springs Home for Children
Post Office Box 1
Barium Springs, NC 28010
704-872-4157
1-800-320-4157
The Teaching-Family Model, our residential program, serves youth age 8 - 21 by providing specialized, on-campus group care services and education for young people who come from an abusive, neglectful, or unstable family background.
Welcome to Barium Springs Home for Children! And, a very special welcome to the friends of the Rainbow Center! Since 1891, we have been committed to a safe and nurturing family life for every child. Barium Springs serves North Carolina's children and families by providing a caring place to live for abused or neglected children, early childhood development for low income families, counseling services and foster family programs. We also offer behavior treatment in a school setting for troubled teens as well as early intervention services for children still living in the community.
http://www.bariumsprings.org/
Eliada Homes and Services for Children and Families
Contact Information:
Eliada Homes, Inc.
2 Compton Drive
P.O. Box 16708
Asheville, NC 28816
828-254-5356
E-mail:
info@eliada.org
Group Homes, Residential Treatment Programs, Family Foster Care, Day Care and After School Care, Day Treatment and Alternative School Programs.
Welcome to Eliada Home. Founded in 1903, we are a non-profit agency dedicated to our mission of helping children succeed. Located on a historic 200-acre campus in the mountains of Western North Carolina, we serve children and families through a diverse spectrum of programs and services, including residential care, child development services, foster care, community support services, therapeutic recreation, and many others.
http://www.eliada.org/
Elon Homes for Children
Contact Information (several locations listed..this looked like the best campus to begin with.)
Kennedy Campus - Charlotte, North Carolina
Elon Homes for Children
1717 Sharon Road West
Charlotte, NC 28210
Phone: (704) 369-2500
Fax: (704) 688-2960
It is the mission of Elon Homes for Children to provide a continuum of services that enhances the quality of spiritual, physical, emotional, intellectual and relational well being of youth and their families.
Since 1907, we have served children, families, and communities. As society has changed and the challenges of the education and care of a child has grown and changed, so has Elon Homes and Schools for Children. Our schools, programs and services reflect the needs of a fast paced society. But, no matter what circumstances arise, we maintain our one focus: the whole child. The children and families in our care are the sole reason we exist. Please do visit our websites to learn more about the good work and good results in our family of corporations.
http://www.elonhomes.org/ElonHomes/
Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas
Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas serves children and youths all across North and South Carolina
These services have been in place in one form or another since 1888
http://www.lfscarolinas.org/who-we-are/history/
Methodist Home for Children
Our small, community-based group homes provide short-term emergency care as well as longer stays.
For more than 100 years, Methodist Home for Children (MHC) has provided care for North Carolina's youth and families. Founded in 1899 as a traditional campus-based orphanage in Raleigh, MHC is now a community-based agency active throughout North Carolina, especially in the central and eastern regions. MHC provides an array of programs and services to:
ensure that children grow up in safe, loving homes
educate parents and caregivers about how best to nurture children and young adults
help young people navigate adolescence and,
work to eradicate the social and family problems that lead to abuse, neglect, family disruption, and child abandonment.
http://www.mhfc.org/home/
Nazareth Children's Home
Nazareth Children's Home will use the Teaching-Family Model as its core but will also provide psychiatric and psychological services through local providers such as Piedmont Mental Health.
Nazareth Children's Home was founded by the Rev. and Mrs. J.M.L. Lyerly in 1903 as an orphanage and officially opened its doors to children in 1906. For many years, Nazareth Children's Home provided care for disadvantaged or orphaned children as a traditional orphanage. Children who were admitted to Nazareth remained indefinitely, leaving only when they had completed school or reached adulthood.
http://www.nazch.com/index.html
Sipe's Orchard Home
Children's home offering residential care to boys and girls in North Carolina
Growing into their dreams. . .
Since the 1940's, Sipe's Orchard Home has offered a safe & caring home for children.
Today, the Orchard serves children with a variety of programs:
http://www.sipesorchardhome.org/
Southmountain Children and Family Services
The program serves children who, for various reasons, cannot live together in their own homes.
A Hundred Years From Now...
...it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of
house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove....but the world
may be different because I was important in the life of a child.
Providing Pathways of Change Since 1903
http://www.southmountain.org/
Youth Homes, Inc.
Youth Homes Inc. is a private, non-profit agency that has been providing residential and family strengthening services for children and families in Charlotte-Mecklenburg County since 1975.
Youth Homes, a division of the Children's Home Society of North Carolina, is a nationally COA-accredited, private nonprofit agency that has been providing supportive human services to children and families in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County since 1975. As part of its mission of “Building Promising Futures for Children and Their Families,” YH provides foster care, family preservation and strengthening, and delinquency prevention services to children and families in crisis. Last year, YH was a positive turning point in the lives of over 600 children and their families.
http://www.youthhomesinc.org/