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CMARC (Care Management for At Risk Children)
Appalachian District Health Department 

Alleghany and Ashe
Phone:    (336) 372-5641 or (336) 246-9449

Description of Services: 
Care Management for Children AT Risk(CMARC) is an at-risk population management program that serves children from birth to 5 years of age who meet certain risk criteria. The main goal of CMARC is to improve your child’s care by linking you to services that will meet the specific needs of your child and family.

Ages Served:  Birth to age 5

Fees/ Payment Type Accepted: 
CMARC services are provided by the local health departments in partnership with Community Care of North Carolina and the NC Division of Medicaid Assistance (to those who qualify).

Eligibility:  Children eligible include those:
  • Identified with special health care needs or at risk for physical, behavioral or emotional conditions
  • That require health related services above and beyond what is generally required
  • In foster care families
  • With chronic medical conditions
  • Who are in short or long term stressful situations

Service Area:   Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga County

Website:      https://medicaid.ncdhhs.gov/transformation/care-management/care-management-risk-children-cmarc ​
Hospitality House

Phone:    (828) 264-1237
Fax:  (828) 265-2541
Email:   info@hosphouse.org
Address:   338 Brook Hollow Rd., Boone, NC 28607

Description of Services: Hospitality House is a non-profit agency that helps individuals and families in crisis, poverty and homeless situations rebuild their lives. The organization provides housing, nutrition, and prevention in a safe, nurturing and healthy environment through programs such as family housing, emergency shelter services, food box pantry and many more.

Fees/ Payment Type Accepted:  There is no fee to stay at the Hospitality House, but you must provide verification of homelessness. This may be an eviction notice, statement of a family member or a community member.

Service Area:  Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Mitchell, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey County

Website:   http://www.hospitalityhouseofboone.org/ ​
​Alleghany Partnership for Children
Address:    PO Box 1643 , Sparta, NC 28675
Phone:  (336) 372-2846

Serves: Birth to age 5
Description of Services:   The Alleghany County Partnership for Children (APFC) is a public, private non-profit organization, which administers Smart Start funds and services for children age birth through five and their families in Alleghany County.
Our mission is helping children enter school healthy and ready to succeed. APFC works towards this mission by seeking out agencies, organizations and individuals that work with young children and their families to create collaborations to enhance or create needed services. The Alleghany County Partnership for Children Board of Directors have adopted planned goals to assist the children and families in our community.
OUR GOALS:
  • To raise awareness of the Partnership, this is a critical part of growing our organization. Although the Partnership has served Alleghany County since the mid-1990s, many members of the community are unfamiliar with our organization – or – they are aware of one or more of our services or programs, yet unaware that they are offered by the Partnership (e.g., our DANA services).
  • Expanding our programs and services is a crucial part of growing the Partnership. We are relaunching the award-winning early literacy initiative, Raising a Reader, and also relaunching the Nurturing Parent program – a curriculum-based, parenting education program that works with the whole family.
  • Partnership and our awareness of the needs in the community led us to formulate the long-term goal of developing a Child Advocacy Center. This center would enable us to achieve our vision of serving as a bridge to the under-served and positively impacting every family in Alleghany County. The center could include offices for the Partnership and other community organizations, as well as forensic interviewers, child care, nurses to perform exams and home visits, a resource room, and a diaper closet with formula and other necessary child care items.
  • To increase compensation and benefits for child care providers and support access to high-quality early childhood environments for all children;
  • To increase the number of children receiving subsidized child care who are enrolled in a quality child care facility.
  • To increase the number of families accessing early childhood services in Alleghany County;
  • To ensure that all children will have a primary provider of medical care who will look at vision, dental, immunization, blood lead levels, obesity, child abuse/neglect and provide developmental screenings;
Service Area:  Alleghany County
Website:   alleghanychildren.org/