Lauderdale County Family Resource Center

Lauderdale County Family Resource Center provides services as follows: basic needs -- food, clothing, housing, limited help with utility payments, limited transportation; parenting skills, discipline, dropout prevention, goal setting, and others special requests needs. Community support workshops as needed and coordinated with community sponsors. Sessions determined by parent surveys. Services are confidential and free. Primary source of referrals are school administrators and community.

The FRC serves families with minor children, connecting them to resources for: food, clothing, housing, and other identified needs to empower family to overall success. The Family Resource Center serves as a central location for families with minor children to get support for basic needs: food, clothing, utility helps, and parenting skills: discipline, homework and study skills, organizational skills, goal setting, time management, money management; also high school dropout prevention, teen pregnancy prevention, drug, alcohol & tobacco prevention. Under the supervision of the Lauderdale County Department of Education and funded by the State and local board, the Center has provided these services, including mentoring of youth for about 20 years. The Center has operated the first county-wide after-school tutoring program, adult parent groups, and youth mentoring . Currently, the Center employs one full-time director. We serve on a limited basis, disabled adults referred from other agencies. The Center tries not to duplicate services, except in special circumstances, but continues to try to identify services that are not addressed.