Welcome to Heart of the Community Inc.

Heart of the Community, Inc. is a privately owned licensed child placing agency incorporated in the State of North Carolina on June 12, 2006 and licensed on June 5, 2007.  We are based in Dillsboro(Alamance County), North Carolina, and we are able to serve family and therapeutic foster care clients who are within a 150 mile radius of our office headquarters.  

Most children are referred to Heart of the Community, Inc.'s therapeutic foster care program by local departments of social services. These children may be in the foster care system or they may be in the custody of their parents. Some children will be reunited with their families after their course of treatment, while others will go on to be adopted or become involved in an independent living program.     

Therapeutic foster care is designed to serve children with special psychological, social, behavioral and emotional needs who can accept and respond to the close relationships within a family setting but whose special needs require more intensive or therapeutic services than are found in traditional foster care.   Our focus is to provide care that identifies each child's strengths and challenges and that directly assists foster parents in building the child's strengths and in addressing his/her challenges.