NC Reach is a state funded college scholarship enabling eligible students to graduate debt-free from any North Carolina public college, university, or community college. The program funds up to full cost of a school’s attendance after other public funds and scholarships have been applied. Comprehensive student support is also provided, including mentoring, academic coaching, professional workshops, care packages, and internships. Eligible students are legal residents of North Carolina who were adopted from NC DSS foster care after age 12 or aged out of NC foster care at age 18 and have not yet reached age 26.

The Vision of Action for Children North Carolina is that our state will be the best place to be a child and raise a child.

The Mission of Action for Children North Carolina is to advocate for child well-being by educating and engaging all people across the state to ensure that our children are healthy, safe, well-educated and have every opportunity for success.

This is a resource for all kinds of training pertaining to children and families in North Carolina!

The mission of Family Support Network of North Carolina is to promote and provide support for families with children who have special needs. Family Support Network of North Carolina promotes and provides family support through its family support services; education and outreach activities; research and evaluation; and other projects.

Foster care is a temporary living arrangement for abused, neglected, and dependent children who need a safe place to live when their parents or another relative cannot take care of them. Often their families face issues such as illness, alcohol or drug addiction, or homelessness.

Since 1983, the North Carolina Guardian ad Litem (GAL) program has served the best interests of thousands of children. Many were able to return home, some now live with other family members, still others have been adopted. What we try to ensure is that all of the children we represent remain safe, and that their homes are permanent.

ILR, Inc., has been a leader in the development of materials on adolescent independent living and consultation and training in relation to the federally funded (starting in 1987) adolescent independent living programming in all fifty states. Foster care, adoption, separation, and parenting are a few of the areas where we have provided materials for your review.