Family Promise helps local communities coordinate their compassion to address the root causes of family homelessness. We address the issue holistically, providing prevention services before families reach a crisis, shelter, and case management when they become homeless, and stabilization programs once they have secured housing to ensure they remain independent. We tap existing local resources to empower families towards economic stability. Families come to us in crisis; we help them rebuild their lives with new skills and ongoing support.
- Prevention: Preventing families from becoming homeless through eviction prevention, move-in assistance, and short-term case management. With more than 40% of Americans a $400 expense away from financial distress, the threat of crisis looms closely for too many families. Preventing families from spiraling into homelessness is an essential part of the Family Promise mission.
- Shelter: We offer emergency shelter to families experiencing homelessness through our innovative shelter model; using existing space like congregations and volunteers motivated by compassion. Working with community resources, we provide comprehensive and targeted services, including extensive case management, at 1/3 the cost of traditional shelter.
- Stabilization: The underlying causes of homelessness are not alleviated simply by providing housing, as crucial as that is. The most successful road back to financial and housing stability includes resources and tools for families to achieve long-term independence. Our Stabilization Program provides a variety of services, from family mentoring to case management, that helps ensure families do not slip back into homelessness. It provides families a basis for security and stability that separates families from poverty and allows them and their children to aspire to the future every child deserves.
- Community Initiatives: Tackling issues such as poverty and affordable housing; two key factors affecting a housing crisis, requires innovative solutions and community support. Community Initiatives are born out of collaboration and our ability to pivot quickly to meet our communities' needs. Some get to the heart of core needs families face in order to regain self-sufficiency, such as education and job training. Other initiatives find ways to match the strengths of local volunteers and the interests of local corporations with the needs of our guests to provide for basic necessities and community projects. Similarly, many initiatives build off core tenets of the Family Promise Program itself, leading to community efforts such as creating affordable housing and strengthening landlord relationships.
