The SPARC Foundation empowers marginalized people with individualized support; increasing self-sufficiency, family health and community safety. Our mission is to keep residents of Western North Carolina out of institutional care. SPARC's programs focus on: - keeping adults out of prisons and mental health facilities - keeping children out of foster care or group homes - re-educating domestic abusers; teaching them new methods of interacting with intimate partners and family members - supervising and facilitating DSS court-ordered family visits and coaching parents as they learn new parenting skills - ensuring access to nutritious, free food for low income residents living in designated "food desserts" - offering Family Centered Treatment; in-home therapy designed to support reuniting families - assisting former inmates with employment, education and housing opportunities to increase their chances of success upon re-entering society and decrease recidivism www.thesparcfoundation.org