Media Kit

Crossnore has three office locations—in Avery County, Hendersonville, and Winston-Salem— that serve as hubs for child-centered work throughout North Carolina. In Avery County we have 86 acres in the quaint Blue Ridge Mountain town of Crossnore, NC founded in 1913 by Drs. Eustace and Mary Martin Sloop. In Winston-Salem, we have 212 rolling acres on the edge of downtown Winston-Salem, NC founded in 1909 by the Western Conference, United Methodist Church. In Hendersonville we have an office location that opened in 2018.

We meet our mission in these service areas: Campus-Based Foster Care, Bridging Families™ Professional Model Foster Care, Bridging Futures™ Foster Care for youth transitioning to independence, Adoption from Foster Care, intensive in-home family preservation programs (Homebuilders® and Family Foundations), Therapeutic Services, Tailored Care Management, the Center for Trauma Resilient Communities, and in our two public, trauma-responsive charter schools, Williams Academy (Avery campus) and Anderson Academy (Winston-Salem campus).  Foster Care programs are offered via referral to children who are not able to live safely in their own homes and who are in the custody of the Department of Social Services. Youth in foster care, who are served by Crossnore, may live in a community-based foster home with a licensed foster family awaiting adoption, in a Bridging Families or Bridging Futures home on or off campus with professional foster parents, or in one of the 16 cottages spread across our Avery and Winston-Salem campuses.

Community-based foster families receive their training from Crossnore and then apply for their foster care license from the state of North Carolina. After licensure, Crossnore provides intentional family-building/matching, placement of children, supervision of families, adoption services, and ongoing clinical support throughout and post-placement.

Our campus cottages are managed by cottage parents who are trained professional cottage parents who serve in a 7-day-on/7-day-off rotation. This relationship model helps our children learn to build healthy relationships while receiving the support they need to make progress towards reaching their own goals.

Campus-based Foster Care serves children in a residential setting while next steps to establishing permanence are determined. Campus-based care allows sibling groups to remain together. The residential program provides wraparound support services to ensure children’s safety, well-being, and belonging, including provision of physical needs, educational support, mental healthcare, spiritual wellness, and recreational opportunities.

Bridging Families™ is Crossnore’s family-focused, team-based professional foster parenting program that serves children and families actively working toward reunification. The aim is to successfully and permanently reunify children in foster care with their families of origin. The program provides full-time professional foster parents (Crossnore employees); intensive wrap-around services, including therapy and case management; and Trust-Based Relational Intervention parenting training. Through short-term, family-style placements close to home, the program offers children stability, support, and connection while giving parents a safe and welcoming space to stay engaged in their children’s lives.

Bridging Futures™ serves children ages 17-21 who are transitioning out of the foster care system. The program offers a licensed foster home, full-time professional foster parents (Crossnore employees), therapy services, educational/vocational support, life skills development, and community resource connection to help youth successfully transition to independent adulthood.

Crossnore’s adoption program works to find loving, permanent homes and families for waiting children for whom reunification is not possible. Crossnore works diligently to connect children with extended family through kinship adoption or with families desiring to adopt from foster care. We focus on bringing children and families together thoughtfully to ensure the family-building we support is grounded in connection, belonging, and long-term stability. We provide licensing services and placement facilitation, as well as family therapy and other supports during the placement process and post-adoption.

Crossnore believes that, whenever possible, children belong at home with their families. Through our Homebuilders® and Family Foundations services, Crossnore provides intensive, in-home support to help children remain at home or to ensure successful and long-lasting reunification when a family has been separated.

Crossnore offers therapy services to children who live on our residential campuses, those served by other Crossnore programs, outpatient clients, and in some area schools. Our clinicians use trauma-informed care and intentional caregiver engagement to address the impact of adversity while strengthening the adults, staff, and systems that surround each child.

Tailored Care Management is designed to provide personalized and coordinated care for children, young adults, and their families living with complicated physical and behavioral health needs. TCM considers each child’s strengths and needs in each of the primary life domains: physical health, mental health, community, family, and education. TCM connects families with the most knowledgeable treatment providers, assists youth in meeting academic goals, connects families to needed community resources (people networks, recreation, housing, transportation, etc.), and ensures regular and frequent communication between provider

Crossnore’s Center for Trauma Resilient Communities opened in 2018. Crossnore believes that when children and families live in trauma-responsive, resilient communities, everyone thrives. CTRC works with individuals and organizations in our communities to help overcome adversity and trauma and also works with community members, helping them understand, build, and embody trauma resilience to strengthen and empower individual and organizational cultures.

Crossnore founded two trauma-responsive, public charter schools, one on our Avery County campus and one on our Winston-Salem campus. Both schools provide stable, emotionally supportive environments that empower students to thrive both academically and socially. Williams Academy, on our Avery campus, opened in 1999 and serves grades K-12. Anderson Academy, on our Winston-Salem campus, opened in 2025 and serves grades K-5 (as of August 2026).