Crossnore provides a stable and nurturing environment for children—especially sibling groups—on both of our residential campuses in Avery County and Winston-Salem, while working to achieve permanency through reunification, kinship care, adoption, or the transition to independent adulthood.
Campus-Based Foster Care
Campus-based foster care provides structured, family-style cottage homes on both our Avery and Winston-Salem campuses for children and adolescents in foster care. Youth live in stable, nurturing environments led by professional Cottage Parents who serve as reliable caregivers and positive role models.
Children benefit from established safety, predictable routines, healthy relationship-building, life skills development, and a supportive community designed to ensure safety, well-being, and a sense of belonging. Cottage Parents provide daily supervision, guidance, and encouragement while helping youth work toward their individual goals—including permanency, education, and important life skills.
Interwoven with campus-based foster care and therapeutic services, experiential learning—which includes recreation, spiritual life, adventure-based education, a student work program, and service learning—is an integral part of our holistic model of care. As we walk alongside children on their journey toward hope and healing, we care for them physically, emotionally, and spiritually. While our spiritual faith practice is rooted in Christianity, we provide reasonable accommodations for children to practice other faith traditions.
Supportive Services and Whole-Child Development
Our campus based model is grounded in a holistic approach that supports the physical, emotional, and spiritual development of each child.
While we are not a therapeutic or leveled-care placement, we offer access to clinical services that complement the campus-based program. Clinical services are integrated to strengthen stability, address emotional needs, and reinforce skill development within the cottage setting.
Our spiritual life program includes regular communal practices like weekly chapel services on campus and church attendance in the community, as well as care and presence in the mundane moments.
It is also our goal to walk with children in foster care as they explore their faith in ways that honor their family’s spiritual background and address spiritual questions as they arise. Additionally, we strive to help them look for and find answers to difficult questions, and to love them along their faith journey.
While our spiritual faith practice is rooted in Christianity, we provide reasonable accommodations for children to practice other faith traditions.
Recreation is a vital component of our holistic approach, as it is often where our kids are able to continue the narrative from, “What happened to you?” to “What’s next for you?”
It’s through the engaging, hands-on, trial and error exploration that our kids are able to make choices for themselves and nurture a spirit of curiosity. It is in the music lessons, the soccer scrimmages, and the gardening clubs that our kids find what makes them come alive and what helps grow their resilience.
