The pandemic is an opportunity to help kids build resilience
This article was published In Charlotte Business Journal website by By Kristi Pikiewicz – Ph.D. Registered Psychotherapist Resilience is an oft sought-after word these days. Seemingly everywhere we turn, there is some measure of forces bearing down upon us, increasing stress, anxiety, and depression. This reality is all too often exasperated in the lives of our children. So many of […]
Charlotte Bilingual Preschool and Thompson partner to serve Latinx preschoolers this fall
Charlotte, N.C. – Charlotte Bilingual Preschool is pleased to announce a partnership with Thompson Child & Family Focus (Thompson) to implement two bilingual MECK Pre-K classrooms serving four- and five-year old children on-campus at Thompson’s Child Development Center on Clanton Road on Charlotte’s West Side. This 11th hour partnership came at a time of great […]
Prevention, Family and Communities: How to Implement a Radical Shift in Child Welfare
In conjunction with Jody Grutza of Grutza Consulting, LLC, THompson hosted a webinar to discuss how states, counties and providers can move towards a broad radical shift in child welfare, utilizing the Family First Prevention Services Act implementation as one vehicle to get there. During the webinar Children’s Bureau Associate Commissioner, Jerry Milner, lays out […]
The Duke Endowment Grant for Foster Care Expansion into Eastern NC
This article was published on WSOTV website by Kevin Campbell, Public Affairs Manager. Thompson Child & Family Focus was recently awarded a three-year grant of $484,168 by the trustees of The Duke Endowment to expand foster care in three eastern North Carolina counties: New Hanover, Brunswick and Pender. Thompson will grow needed foster home capacity […]
Thompson to continue the mission of the Family Impact Fund (FIF)
From July 1, 2020 Thompson Child & Family Focus will continue the mission of the Family Impact Fund (FIF)
COVID Update from our CEO
CHARLOTTE, NC – 6.17.2020 I have never been prouder to call this city and this state home, than I am today. In this time – a moment where the entire world is collectively holding its breath as it stares into the void of the unknown – it could be so easy for us […]