Children & Teens

Children & Family Resource Center
The Children & Family Resource Center promotes the well-being of children as it advocates for them and their families, facilitates coordination and collaboration among children’s programs, and provides services and resources for children and their families. See their resource Agencies Serving Youth in Henderson County.

Girls on the Run
Meeting twice a week in small teams of 8-20 girls, we teach life skills through fun, engaging lessons that celebrate the joy of movement through running.This character-development program for pre-adolescent girls (3rd-8th grades) strengthens girls physically, emotionally, and socially in preparation to face the upcoming pressures of adolescence.The program is offered on a sliding scale starting at $15, and no girl is turned away for inability to pay.

Only Hope WNC Services for youth experiencing homelessness. 

Safe Sleep NC Infant-safe sleep practices that reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and prevent infant sleep-related deaths such as accidental infant asphyxiation and suffocation across the state. Safe Sleep NC Videos

Smart Start of Henderson County believes that every child's future begins at birth. Smart Start is an early education initiative created to ensure that all young children enter school healthy and ready to succeed.

Triple P Online is a positive parenting program that gives you a toolbox of proven strategies to help you set up your child or teenager for life to be happy, confident, and successful. In the meantime, your home life will be better too… with rules followed, relationships stronger, and parents who are much less stressed! Raising kids should be fun. With Triple P, it is!