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 As
a private, non-profit children's home and school,
our mission is to provide a safe, stable, healing, living
and learning environment for children from families in crisis.
Children come to us from across North Carolina, primarily
from 27 western counties. In our care, residents live in
comfortable cottages with caring adults who model appropriate
relationships and supervise the living environment.
Campus
residents attend Crossnore Academy, the charter school on
campus. Weekdays in the Belk Dining Hall, breakfast and
lunches are served and weekend meals are in the cottages.
Recreational,
travel and student work opportunities abound.
Crossnore
offers programs of service that address varying levels and
stages of need.
- Short Term Care Residents come into care on short notice, sometimes
in the middle of the night. They may be victims of abuse
or neglect; their parent might have been jailed; or a
separation from the adults in their home has been recommended.
Short Term Care establishes a safe, secure, stable environment
for the child. This program is time limited to approximately
90 days. If the home situation is not stabilized, then
the child has easy access to a longer term program at
Crossnore.
- Youth
Clarification Children come to Crossnore bewildered,
upset and often angry at the adults who have determined
their family environment is unsafe or inappropriate for
them. Staff helps children understand their circumstances
after a local social services agency has severed parental
rights.
- Family
Clarification - For up to a year, Crossnore staff
works to clarify a child's status with his or her family,
while helping the child to overcome the issues that brought
him or her into care. If, in that period, the child's
custodian determines that the child has made sufficient
progress toward his or her goals, and the family makes
progress in resolving its issues, the child can return
to its family. If that clarification period reveals the
family issues require continued separation, the child
can go into longer-term care. Eventually,
a child who stays at Crossnore will enter the Preparation
for Adult Living Program.
- Preparation
for Adult Living Program - In PAL, students learn
all the skills necessary to begin life on their own. They
learn how to find a job and apartment, how to budget,
shop and save.
- Respite
Care - To preserve placements, promote stability and
give the child a respite from himself and others, Crossnore
School established a Respite Cottage. In that cottage
a child can spend several days and
- regain
self control
-
give tensions time and guidance to work themselves
out
- preserve
the placement, so the child can return to the cottage,
rather than having to be transferred or discharged
to a different environment
- protect
cottage harmony.
This
cottage is available to Foster Parents and Adoptive
Families, too, because sometimes destabilizing tensions
arise that threaten harmony.
"We
provide a place where foster parents and adoptive parents
can leave their kids in a safe, secure environment for
a night or two while they go get recharged," said Crossnore
Executive Director Phyllis Crain.
- Day
Care - For children from birth to age five in the
Dr. Emma Sloop Fink Child Development Center.
- After
School Program - To provide quality after-school care
and summer program for elementary school age students.
Keeping
Sibling Groups Together
 One
of Crossnore School's operating principles is to keep sibling
groups together. Too often, when children are removed from
their home,siblings are sent to different placements, depending
on their age and need.
Crossnore
School makes every effort to be able to meet the needs of
every child in a sibling group so that they may stay together.
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