63 Eastern NC Foster Care Homes Transition to Thompson
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – Thompson Child & Family Focus (Thompson), Charlotte’s leading human services organization, officially transitioned 63 licensed foster care homes from Touchstone Residential Services, as of May 1, 2020. A mix of 58 therapeutic and family foster youth, ranging in age from 2 to 17 years old will start being supported by Thompson […]
Thompson Stands Up Temporary Shelter for Homeless Families
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – Thompson Child & Family Focus (Thompson), Charlotte’s leading human services organization, today announced plans to provide temporary housing to homeless children and families identified through A Child’s Place (ACP), a program of Thompson. ACP at Thompson works with families in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School (CMS) district who are; disproportionately affected by generational […]
Williamson Cottage
With the NC stay-at-home orders, Thompson leadership looked at a building on our residential campus as an opportunity to help our ACP families do just that, stay at ‘home.’ Turning an otherwise, unused building into a temporary shelter was an undertaking that had not previously been done, but was realized with community support. As the […]