Our residential services are designed to provide holistic, high-quality, 24-hour care in a loving, home-like environment. Based on the individual needs of the residents, services and programs may include: medical services, special education, physical therapy, vocation and daily skills training, speech, music, horticulture and creative arts therapy. These facilities include:

Morrow Center, a Specialized Community Residential Center named in honor of Holy Angels’ first resident Maria Morrow, provides round-the-clock physical care and services for children age birth to 21 years.

McAuley Residences, Intermediate Care Facilities, serving both children and adults, include: Moody Place and Belhaven (15 beds each) and Brookview, Pinehaven and Oakcrest (6 beds each).

Holy Angels has Community Group Homes serving adults with mild to moderate intellectual developmental disabilities who may also have delicate medical conditions. The homes Gary and Carrabaun (located on the Holy Angels property) and Lakewood and South Point (located in the Belmont community) provide needed support and are designed to allow each resident to attain his or her highest level of independence.

Medical services for children and adult residents are best served in Holy Angels 24 hour programs due to their mental and physical disabilities, as well as their medical fragility.

Holy Angels Fisher Health Care Center allows our nursing team to monitor residents with state-of-the-art technology and provide around the clock care that includes heart-rate monitoring, EKG, IV therapy, oxygen therapy, portable X-ray/ultrasounds and emergency medicine for seizure.

The Fisher Health Care Center helps our angels stay home in the loving care of the Holy Angels family and avoid hundreds of days of hospitalizations saving families and taxpayers a significant amount of money.

Our Curlin Clinic, named after Bishop Curlin, is equipped to support our residents and physicians across the following specialties: Primary Care Physician, Pulmonology, Orthopedics, Adult Gastroenterology, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Gynecology, Dental, Ophthalmology, Ear, Nose and Throat, Urology, Neurology, Physiatry, Physiatry and Neurosurgery

Our Special Education program is tailored and designed for each individual student. Teachers create and maintain and Individualized Education Program (IEP) for every student. Curriculum and materials are adapted to meet the needs of the students within the program. Utilizing state-of-the-art interactive white boards, students can get hands on training in math, reading and writing. The focus is to educate each student based on levels and abilities.

Inspired by our history with the Sisters of Mercy, Holy Angels is committed to providing opportunities for Spiritual Growth for our residents, their families, our staff and volunteers. Serving a diverse faith community, we offer Chaplain Services, Sunday prayer services, memorial services and one-on-one spiritual guidance and grief counseling. Each day, we celebrate Mercy Moments, those special moments that capture the heart of Holy Angels and the spirit of the Sisters of Mercy. An annual highlight, our residents perform their own unique and inspiring telling of the Nativity during Christmas Mass.

Active treatment refers to specialized programming for individuals with intellectual development disabilities. The purpose is to teach new skills and prevent regression of skills to enhance overall independence and quality of life. Active treatment is incorporated throughout the individual’s day; in all aspects of their life including daily living, self-care, vocational, and leisure activities. The particular goals are developed based on each resident’s individual needs.

To support adults with intellectual developmental disabilities age 21 or over who live in the community, Holy Angels offers a LifeChoices Adult Day Activity program designed specifically to promote individual adaptive, social and emotional skills, as well as personal independence. Activities include a variety of life skills training such as money management, health and safety, academics and home economics. Additionally, participants explore and develop abilities in special areas; such as horticulture, music, art and more.

Holy Angels owns and operates three businesses located on Main Street in downtown Belmont: Cherubs Café, Cotton Candy Factory and Bliss Gallery. These businesses, along with the Spruced Goose Station in McAdenville, provide competitive employment opportunities to persons with all levels of abilities in an integrated work environment. This also allows our crew members to be a part of the community in which they live. The businesses help our guests to learn about individuals with intellectual disabilities and to witness first hand their abilities. Any profits from sales are used solely to fund the programs and services of Holy Angels.

The Holy Angels Dance Troupe was founded nearly 30 years ago by the late Joanna Nichols, a local dance teacher. Through the use of ballet and creative movement, the dancers have tapped into their creativity. It is an expressive form of art that helps each dancer learn to work together as members of a team, listen and participate in an activity that is fun for all.

The hand bell choir offers the participants the opportunity to learn basic musical rhythms and patterns and very basic chord construction. It also helps in the development of a musical ear (understanding what to listen for). The members must work as a team and follow directions – when to play – when to be quiet and focus on the director. In a performance settingthey must be poised and attentive to one another as well as the audience. The result . . . some beautiful music.

Located on our main campus, stands a large greenhouse and organic garden: the primary space for our Horticulture Therapy Program. Residents use adapted hand shovels and other special instruments to work in the soil, care for plants and engage their senses and creativity through gardening in an outdoor setting. Using raised beds to produce higher yields of fruits and vegetables – requiring less soil, water and maintenance – the organic gardens can be planted for all four seasons yielding year-round produce, including cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes and other foods used on menus in some of our facilities and at Cherubs Café.

For higher functioning individuals, the greenhouse also allows residents to develop important vocational skills and teamwork. A nearby pond with a fountain further stimulates with sights and sounds.

The Leonard Music Program, named in memory of Don Leonard and in honor of Lynn Leonard, is an innovative music therapy program that includes many opportunities for our residents to express themselves creatively using simple instruments and innovative tools to help improve cognitive, physical, social and emotional skills. The Sound Beam, an award-winning device that converts body, hand or arm movements into digitally generated sound, allows residents to hear and produce their own music through movement and interaction. The Rhythmic Arts Project (TRAP) is a cutting-edge music therapy that integrates drums and percussion instruments as creative learning tools that address life skills and enhance the mind, body and spirit.

When presented the opportunity to create art, our residents’ creative spirits are awakened. Using hand-over-hand techniques where staff members or volunteers place their hand over the resident’s, each individual creates their own artwork and make individualized choices in color, medium or textures. Integrated with communication therapy, residents enjoy creating beautiful works of art and visual expression.

Physical therapy is an integral part of each resident’s activities of daily living and help to ensure the safety and overall health of our residents. Licensed to practice in the state of North Carolina, all therapists in the department work closely with members of the interdisciplinary team to provide such services as spa therapy, splinting, positioning on adaptive equipment, and one-on-one therapy to promote independence. Orthopedic clinics are coordinated with physicians from Charlotte and Gastonia.

Recreation Therapy at Holy Angels is used to enrich the quality of life for the residents we serve – through fun activities including enjoying the great outdoors at Camp Hope, our recreational facility, to enhance the health, well being and social skills of our residents.

Speech-Language Therapy at Holy Angels focuses on helping each resident reach their communication potential and interact with the people in their life including their family, peers, and care givers. Using a total communication approach, all forms of verbal and nonverbal communication are taught and encouraged including vocalizations, gestures, sign language, picture symbols and technology. Speech-Language Pathology also serves residents with swallowing disorders to improve safe oral eating when appropriate.

Speech therapy uses a variety of technology including the iPad, speech output devices, and EyePoint technology to allow residents to more independently communicate and interact in their environment.