P - Human Services

Women Advance

"OUR MISSION Women AdvaNCe is an independent nonpartisan educational institute dedicated to improving the lives of North Carolina’s women and families by providing education and encouraging constructive public dialogue about progressive ideas and public policy initiatives. We empower North Carolina women by creating a network charged with progressing social change. Our nonprofit organization unites women to share their stories and help create a fair chance for every woman and every family. Women AdvaNCe:

Frank Adoption Center

Frank Adoption Center is an international adoption and foster care agency working to provide clear, comprehensive care to vulnerable communities. Our work in international adoption focuses on international kinship care, working with US immigrant families to obtain adoption visas for their orphaned relative children. Our foster care licensing program creates safe, affirming and celebratory care providers for LGBTQ+ children within the NC foster system.

Central Children's Home of North Carolina, Inc.

The mission of the Central Children’s Home is to provide family centered services via an appropriate period of residential group care for children and youth from ages 8-21, who cannot remain at home due to dependency, neglect or abuse; by providing a wholesome atmosphere that is conducive to their emotional, educational, social, spiritual and physical growth and development which promotes positive family functioning and/or independent living.

My Big Dream

My Big Dream's mission is to create beautiful handcrafted products with hope, love and inclusion. My Big Dream brings caring and understanding to Friends with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In other words, it's a place of purpose filled with love and hope and we ALL deserve that!