Organizations and Agencies Supporting the Participating More at Four Program

• Children’s Developmental Services Agency: Lead local agency for the North Carolina Infant Toddler Program (NCITP). Provides Early Intervention Service Coordination to children birth to age 3 and their families who qualify for the ITP. Developmental assessments (inter-disciplinary) provided for children birth to 5 years (referrals for 3-5 year olds come directly from the local preschool program).
• Cumberland County Department of Social Services
• Cumberland County Mental Health
• Early Intervention Team: Provides a child/family centered program which focuses on improving parenting skills for families with preschool children. Also focuses on enhancing knowledge of child development and decreasing child abuse and neglect and offering comprehensive diagnostic assessments on all eligible children.
• Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center
• Motheread: Teaches literacy to parents through communication, sharing feelings, humor, memories, and experiences through reading and writing. Parents are not students, but caring parents who become interested in developing their learning skills and linking these skills to nurturing their children and increasing literary development.
• Read-to-Me: Improves the quality of Cumberland County child care centers by introducing books and literature-centered activities to children and their teachers. Instructors work one-on-one with child care providers to develop their story-telling skills while children enjoy literature based fun.
• Cumberland County Schools
• Early In Program: Provides preschool blended classrooms serving typically developing and special needs children from the catchment area of the established center.
• BRIDGES Early Childhood : Service Center: Provides family education and connections to community resources. The program is designed to improve the quality of life for parents and children. There are three centers located in the community.
• Fascinate-U Children’s Museum: Provides children the opportunity to explore their world the way they learn best, through creative role-playing, manipulation, and interaction with each other and objects around them. Birthday party and group rates available.
• Fayetteville Museum of Art: Offers creative teaching resources filled with a variety of cultural artifacts and art ideas, covering numerous themes- Music, Textile & Masks, Folk Art, Folk Toys, African, Egyptian, China & Japan, Macedonia, Native American, and Latin American.
• Kerri Hurley/Kindermusik: Kindermusik Music Box is offered in Cumberland County Schools pre-school classes. Music Therapy is offered at the Dorothy Spainhour school on a weekly basis, where each child participating has an individually prescribed treatment goal. Additional classes are offered in Cumberland County Schools Early-In classes.
• Partnership for Children of Cumberland County: Plans, administers, and advocates services for young children and their families. Provides funding for programs and services for young children under six years of age and their families, and access to high-quality and affordable childcare, health care, and other critical family services.
• Prevent Blindness North Carolina: Offers photorefractive vision screenings on-site to children ages 2-5 years old at child care centers and community settings, including children with special needs. Screenings are conducted by trained screeners using photorefractive screening technology to detect vision problems that may lead to loss of sight. Offers follow up examinations and services.
  

To access the More at Four Program Parent Line
Call 860-2277 Ext 510