Family & Children’s Service MISSION STATEMENT
Family & Children’s Service provides real help for real hurt, right now®. Through compassionate expertise, we strengthen relationships to create hope and healing.
Family & Children’s Service (F&CS) is a 64-year old private non-profit agency offering a variety of mental health services that strengthen children, families and individuals of diverse cultures and experiences. The program areas in which we excel include delivering crisis intervention counseling, mental health trauma intervention for children and families who are witnesses or victims of violence, and attachment counseling to help children in foster care develop and maintain healthy, loving relationships with permanent families.
Please click here for Volunteer Application.
Current volunteer opportunities:
The Davidson County Relative Caregiver Program
The Davidson County Relative Caregiver Program assists extended family members such as grandparents who care for a relative’s children when parents cannot.
• Enrichment Activity Volunteer
• After School Mentor/Tutor
• Administrative Support Volunteer
• Therapeutic Activity Group Volunteer
• Education and Recreation Assistant
• Material Assistance Volunteer
The Crisis Center
The Crisis Center provides telephone counseling and support to assist individuals struggling with grief, depression, domestic violence, divorce, addiction, serious mental illness and suicidal thoughts. Volunteers can assist callers or work behind the scenes.
• Phone Counselor
• Administrative support volunteer
Marketing & Development Department
The Marketing & Development Department is responsible for fundraising, special events and other projects to support F&CS programs and community relations events to inform the public about our work.
• Special Event Volunteer (FrivoliTIES, Lunch & Learn Sessions, Community Events)
• Assist with mailings
You can also see current volunteer opportunities at www.volunteermatch.com
We look forward to having you as a part of the Family & Children’s Service volunteer team!
