EMMA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER

 A friendly place to go for: 

• Help with Parenting Questions 
• Emergency and Supplemental Food 
• Medical Help 
• Information about Community Resources
• Community Gardening
• Parent Leadership Training
• Opportunities for Volunteering
• MOTHEREAD and community play groups

Emma, in West Asheville, is a community that has undergone enormous change in less than a generation. Rolling farmland has been replaced with densely populated mobile home parks; many of the current residents are recent immigrants and families struggling to get by on limited resources. Emma today has few of the assets that make for small town stability-no parks or public spaces, no sidewalks, no library-and few local businesses have survived the competition from nearby Patton Avenue. Yet the "old timers" still speak of Emma as a special place, a place they remember growing up in, with farms and neighbors who helped out. 

The Emma Family Resource Center has a vision for working with families that centers on the belief that all families have strengths, and that our role is to help them build on those strengths. We look at how to support families in a way that challenges and empowers them to make positive choices for themselves. We are committed to being an active catalyst toward making the Emma community a safe, beautiful, welcoming place to raise our children. We also are committed to working collaboratively with agencies, other organizations and individuals who share this vision and these concerns. 

EFRC is located on the campus of Emma Elementary School in West Asheville. A doublewide trailer houses the Center's office, a food pantry, a clothing closet, a parent and child resource/playroom, and a public access internet computer. The nurse-practitioner runs a walk-in clinic two days a week; no out of pocket expenses are charged, and it is a Project Access enrollment site. The DSS worker works with families who have children currently enrolled in the Emma School, and helps them with Medicaid, TANF, and Health Choice certifications. Because of our space limitations, many of our programs are held at sites provided by collaborating agencies and organizations.  

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EFRC is a direct-service project of Children First, in partnership with Buncombe County Department of Social Serivces, Emma Elementary School and Mission Hospitals. 

Emma Family Resource Center
37 Brickyard Road
Asheville, NC  28806

828-252-4810

To learn more about the Emma Family Resource Center, please e-mail us by clicking the mail box.