The Family Promise Network brings shelter, meals, and support services to families without homes. The Family Promise Network offers a cost-efficient, effective, and replicable community response to family homelessness. This is accomplished because we make use of existing community resources. This program can be implemented quickly, utilizing many existing resources.
Key Benefits for major stakeholders:
Guest Benefits
- Provides a safe, homelike shelter where families can stay
- Caring volunteers to support them through the process
- Intensive case management to assist in finding more permanent housing and jobs while meeting other needs
- Guest families secure long-term housing
Congregation Benefits
- Opportunity for outreach (within the congregation’s own facilities) focusing on the needs of people in the community
- Opportunity for participation in community interfaith efforts
- Increased sense of community among members as they share the effort to alleviate family homelessness
Community Benefits
- Cost-efficient mobilization of the community
- Less duplication of services already in the community;
- Increases engagement with community social service agencies to provide counseling, job training, help with housing search
- Does not institutionalize shelter as a solution to homelessness
- More of a solution rather than a band-aid
- Offers a catalyst for other community initiatives, such as job counseling, parenting workshops, transitional housing, etc.
Volunteer Benefits
- Opportunity to help homeless families directly
- Opportunity to make a real difference
- Opportunity to do outreach within their own congregation or a nearby location
- Opportunity to increase your skills, while providing a valuable service
- Opportunity for a flexible volunteer schedule, so you can fit it into your weekly schedule
- Opportunity to volunteer together as a family to provide real value