Shelter
our shelter program and warm hospitality is the foundation of our model.
WHY PROVIDE SHELTER?
Our goal is to provide the shortest amount of stay possible and quickly connect family to housing.
For families with literally nowhere else to go, Family Promise can provide a safe, trauma-informed, and low barrier temporary solution while the family is connected to a longer-term housing solution.
We mitigate trauma of unsheltered homelessness: negative health outcomes, criminalization of homelessness, and toxic stress impact.
Our model works.
Over 80% of families secure housing in less than nine weeks.
HOW IT WORKS
While in the program, each household receives daily meals, access to laundry facilities, shared community spaces, and individualized case management with housing navigation services focused on addressing barriers to rehousing and achieving long-term, stable housing.
A COMMUNITY RESPONSE
In every community, these core elements exist. By bringing the community together on the issue of family homelessness, Family Promise addresses a major social problem in a holistic, effective way. Once the community becomes engaged, people understand the root causes of family homelessness and take steps to address them. Family Promise Affiliates have created more than 1,700 community initiatives—housing programs, homelessness prevention, childcare and much more—that target the issues of poverty and homelessness on a local level.
A LONG-TERM SOLUTION
Not only does our 88% success rate mean many more families stably housed, it is also a tremendous cost saving to the community as diversion from far more expensive interventions. Our approach of keeping families together, identifying their strengths, and partnering with the community for solutions means that families are at much lower risk of returning to homelessness.
THE BOTTOM LINE
Family Promise changes lives. We served 126,000 parents and children last year, giving them the ability to realize their true potential. We also change the lives of our 200,000 volunteers, giving them a meaningful outreach right in their own communities.