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What is Family Support Network?

The Family Support Network of Eastern North Carolina, Inc. (FSN-ENC) is a private nonprofit corporation designed to provide emotional support and resource information through parent-to-parent contact to parents and families of children with special developmental, physical or medical needs, or who have experienced the death of a child.

How can Family Support Network help?
  • All services are FREE
  • We can put you in touch with a volunteer parent who has a child with needs similar to those of your own child. This parent can offer a “listening ear”. this parent will be someone who has been there and really understands how you might be feeling.
  • By training Volunteer Parents who have adapted in a positive manner to their child’s illness or disability.
  • By providing free information on specific medical terms or diagnosis and helping you find appropriate resources for your child in your community.

How long has FSN-ENC been in existence and how did it get started?

FSN-ENC began in 1987 in the community after local parents and professionals heard about parent-to-parent programs in other areas. A proposal was written to the Division of Community Pediatrics at UNC for start-up funds. FSN-ENC expanded to Pitt County Memorial Hospital in 1990.

  
The Pierson Award hanging Children Hospital Lobby
  
 
Awards and Accomplishments
1996 FSN-ENC was awarded The Pierson Award at the International Parent-to-Parent Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Beach Center on Families and Disabilities at the University of Kansas has published a book on the parent-to-parent movement and selected FSN-ENC as a model to exemplify a successful parent-to-parent program.

The Institute of Family Centered Care in Bethesda, Maryland recognized our program in their quarterly newsletter ADVANCES in 2002 for the work we do at PCMH and in the community.

Our Children’s Garden
children garden statue
FSN-ENC was instrumental in creating, a memorial garden planted in front of the children’s hospital in memory of the children who have passed away. A religious ceremony for parents having lost a child/children to death is observed the 4th Sunday in April of each year in which FSN-ENC participates.

 

 

 

 

Contact Information:

 Telephone: (252) 328-9332
 Fax: (252) 328-0839
 E-mail: bboberg@pcmh.com
 Address:2780-B Dickinson Ave, Greenville NC 27834

 

 

Mailing Address CDSA, Irons Bldg, Oglesby Drive, Greenville NC 27858
FSNENC Copyright 2006-2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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