Give To Those Experiencing Homelessness

Many of us are one or two paychecks away from experiencing homelessness. An unexpected health illness could send anyone to the hospital and then before you know it, you're behind on your bills. That is a common occurrence with our Family Promise of North Fulton/DeKalb guests. 

We serve families who are living in their vehicles or couch hopping from home to home. The beautiful souls we host are mothers with teenage boys who would never separate their family to live in a women's shelter while their children are in a men's shelter. We keep families together, because after all we're Family Promise, an organization that has been helping local homeless families experiencing a crisis, achieve sustainable housing and self-sufficiency as quickly as possible. 

Family Promise recognizes that family homelessness and poverty are complex issues that require comprehensive, innovative solutions. Our 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.

Will you vow to help someone in need today?

We're not asking for your next rent or mortgage payment. Just, maybe, skip fast food today and give to someone in need. 

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for GIVING HOPE! 

Much love,

Brig