Family Promise of Fulton County

For the past 12 years, Family Promise of North Fulton/DeKalb (FPNFD) has been helping local homeless families experiencing a crisis, achieve sustainable housing and self-sufficiency as quickly as possible. FPNFD recognizes that family homelessness and poverty are complex issues that require comprehensive, innovative solutions. While Family Promise adheres to a housing first approach to ending homelessness, we also recognize homelessness is not just about housing. Family Promise programs work together to create a holistic approach to the crisis of family homelessness, which includes three programs: 

• Emergency Response: working to stop homelessness before it begins by offering preventative and diversion services to community members.  Services can include providing gas or food gift cards and referring those in need to sister or government programs.  
• The Rotational Shelter: utilizing 12 faith-based organizations to house and feed client families on a weekly rotating basis while providing intensive case management services to get them back on their feet.  During this program, case managers create individualized plans of care that include assistance with employment, childcare, car repairs or transportation assistance, financial literacy training, life-skill educational classes, mental health counseling, technology provision, assistance with outstanding utility or traffic-ticket payments, and more.  The goal is to first eliminate any barriers to getting parents back to work and children into childcare.  Then families begin saving money and with case management support, work toward graduating into independent or transitional housing.  
• Housing Stabilization: facilitating an aftercare program for families that have graduated from the Rotational Shelter program into transitional or independent living situations, which involves mentoring and case management check-ins.  It also can provide emergency financial assistance for graduated families if necessary.  This program is essential for graduated families to maintain stable housing when relapse into homelessness is most likely.