Appalachian Family Innovations (Family Innovations) is a division of the Institute for Health and Human Services at Appalachian State University. With primary offices in Morganton, Asheville, and Winston-Salem, Family Innovations has, since the early 1970s committed itself to the development, implementation, and refinement of leading edge helping programs for troubled youth and their families.

Appalachian Family Innovations provides specialized direct care programs in foster care, adoptions, home visitation with parents with newborns, intensive family preservation services, and sex abuse prevention.

Appalachian Family Innovations offers training, consultation, and evaluation support to intensive family preservation service providers, direct care staff in residential programs, staff development for teachers, and commissioned training to organizations with special programming requirements or client populations. (To see a catalog of training offered by AFI click here).

The research, training, and service efforts at Family Innovations have led consistently to the same conclusion. If we, society, want our children to grow up to be caring spouses, nurturing parents, and productive citizens, we must expose them to adults who behave that way and encourage those skills and values. To see a video presentation about Appalachian Family Innovations click here.

Appalachian Family Innovations is a Certified Teaching-Family Association Sponsor Agency.

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