Children Focused Programs

Summer Camp:

Each summer, the Northern Moore Family Resource Center offers a themed six-week day camp that is designed to encourage children to keep reading and learning over the summer, while having fun as well. This past summer, 198 children learned to “Aim for the Stars”. Camp Directors, who also are certified teachers, designed games and projects to help children learn about our Solar System and our planet, culminating in a field trip up to Morehead Planetarium during the last week of camp. Children also staged a play about being good stewards of our planet. The theme for our 2010 summer camp is CSI: Robbins. To apply for your child to attend, see our application form 2010 Summer Camp.

After School Program at Robbins Elementary School:

The Resource Center partners with Robbins Elementary School to provide an after school program for 90 students classified as academically at-risk. The program runs from 2:45 to 5:45, Monday through Thursday. Last year, Robbins Elementary School students showed the greatest growth of all students in Moore County. Unfortunately, though they showed the greatest growth, less than 50% of the students read proficiently at their grade level. The Resource Center is confident that our after school program will help students make great strides again this year, and will help increase the percentage of children performing proficiently at their grade level.

Community Focused Program

NMFRC is partnering with the Moore County Planning Department on two new housing initiatives. One of the programs is long-term and seeks to allow low-income families to purchase homes. The other program creates low-cost rental housing from of vacant homes and buildings.

(Individual Development Account)  Program:

Moore County Community Development applied for and received a Capacity Building Grant to benefit the Resource Center. The Center has hired a full-time employee, Jessica Parker, to identify families to participate in an IDA Program, which is designed to allow them to become homeowners. Jessica will teach the selected families financial literacy, responsibilities of homeownership, and ways to improve their credit. Additionally, if they save $1,000, then they will receive a match from at least 3 other sources that must be used as a down payment on a house.

For more information about BudgetWhys IDA click here.

Convert to Rent:

Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation has given the Resource Center a grant to work with a homeowner to rehabilitate a home that will then be leased to the Resource Center at an affordable rate for a period of years. The Resource Center will sublet the home to a responsible family. We hope to find a way to make this program replicable, as there are many families living in dangerous environments.