Kids And Kin Relative Child Care arrangements are on the rise in Alabama. An innovative program, Kids and Kin, was created and implemented to meet Relative Child Care (RCC) providers’ needs of training, resources, and support. Read the Full Story

Family Coaches The Family Coaches Program is a program supported by a collaboration between Family Guidance Center of Alabama, Alabama Department of Human Resources, and Alabama media partners. Read the Full Story

Big Brothers/Big Sisters The Big Brothers Big Sisters Program is a youth mentoring program designed to help parents and their children, ages 5-14. Read the Full Story

LIFT Life is Fun Together (LIFT) is a program funded through the Alabama Community Healthy Marriage Initiative that provides relationship and marriage education through fun, distinctive workshops, information and referral, ongoing support and the LIFT library of resources. Read the Full Story

FGC Online

Welcome to the Family Guidance Center Website

Welcome to the website of Family Guidance Center of Alabama, a site that is for and about families. We hope that you will find a wide range of helpful information here.

Family needs have certainly changed since Family Guidance Center first started serving families in 1959. Our full range of services includes counseling, parenting education, marriage enrichment, mentoring, services for business and industry, child care support services, senior services, adult day care, career development, job training and other therapeutic services for families.

We continue to strive to help families reach their goals. Let us know how we can serve you better, drop us a line or give us a call toll free at 800-499-6597. Enjoy your visit with us.

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Family Guidance Center of Alabama

2012 Families Of The Year

We would like to thank and honor the Families Of The Year for 2012.

Please view our five families here

Calling All Writers: Submit a Father Story!

The Parenting Matters Program of Family Guidance Center is actively seeking short stories about fathers from Alabama men, women, and children/youth. You may submit a story about how your father influenced you, or how being a father changed your life. These can be happy stories about fathers or fathering, or stories that share the challenges of growing up without a father's involvement.

In 2013, Parenting Matters plans to publish a collection of Alabama fathering stories. Writers can submit their story in hard copy or electronically via email. Stories may vary in length from a few sentences to a couple of pages. We ask that all stories include the writer's first name or initials, age, and county of residence.

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Or mail your story to:

Parenting Matters Program

Family Guidance Center of Alabama

2358 Fairlane Drive

Montgomery, Alabama 36116

The Parenting Matters Program provides a wide range of specialized services for fathers in Montgomery, Jefferson, and Lowndes counties. Services include one-to-one consultation and support, job search and employment assistance, parenting education, marriage and healthy relationship seminars, men's support groups, and parenting resources. For more information or to become involved in these no cost services, please contact Parenting Matters at 334.270.4100 or toll-free at 1.800.499.6597.

Funding for this project is provided through a grant with the Alabama Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention through funding by the Office of Family Assistance, U.S. Dept. of Human Services Grant #90FK0042-01-00. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. Services are available to all eligible persons regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, or sexual orientation.

Opening Doors for Children with Special Needs

The Family Guidance Center in partnership with Wallace Community College will present Opening Doors for Children with Special Needs on August 25, 2012 at the Dothan campus of Wallace Community College.

This presentation by Dr. Charlotte M. Hendricks will help caregivers and families understand how they can nurture and support young children through ages and stages of development.

Please call (334) 712-7777 ext. 227 or 1-800-290-0933 ext. 227 for registration or additional information. Sign-in will begin at 7:30 am in Rane Hall.

Providers will receive 4 hours of training credit. Training will begin promptly at 8:30 a.m. Late arriving attendees will not be able to receive credit for the training.