Rotational Shelter
Our rotational church shelter program and warm hospitality is the foundation of the Family Promise model.
Sachse Overnight Shelter
Help us get Sachse ready. Cleaning, fresh paint, furniture, and all of the basic necessities for our guests. Our goal is to have Sachse ready to serve families starting in May. In order to do this we need the support of the community. If you can paint, clean, donate furniture or funds, we need your assistance.
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Sachse will serve as our Overnight shelter for guests in the program. We will work with our partner congregations to find a level of serving that meets the ministry of each. With our partnerships and case management, the FPOCC SIP program stands to serve families and providing them with a safe space until they can find an affordable home of their own.
Across this country, communities offer hospitality to families through Family Promise Affiliates. The innovative model — using existing space like congregations and volunteers motivated by compassion —has helped hundreds of thousands of children and adults in our national network of 200+ Affiliates. Working with community resources, Family Promise Affiliates provide comprehensive and targeted services, including extensive case management, at 1/3 the cost of traditional shelter. Furthermore, Family Promise Affiliates serve families of all compositions, often providing their only shelter option in a community.
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And it works.
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On average, 88% of the people served in the shelter program secure housing within nine weeks. Because of the depth of services and community support, families stay housed, and Affiliates provide both prevention and stabilization services to increase their impact.
HOW IT WORKS
We are very blessed with many resources right here in Collin County. We use 14 congregations in the Collin County area to provide our shelter at night, from 6 pm to 7 am. Families stay in their own rooms at night and family members are not separated. They are provided breakfast, lunch and dinner and the hospitality of the volunteers each night. These volunteers are the core of the program. They share food, spend the night, play with children and lend their passion and expertise to help families get back on their feet. They prove that motivated people can solve family homelessness. And, in the process, they truly create “home” – and a community – for families who have no place left to turn.
We are not an Emergency Shelter and it can take 3-5 days to go through a series of 3 interviews, background check and drug testing.
Our Day Center, which is provided by one of our support churches, offers a daily refuge where families can take showers, receive professional case management, and look for housing and jobs. During the weekdays and weekend our guests are at work, school or utilizing this Day Center from 7:30 AM to 6:00 pm. It's a place where they can care for their pre-school children, work on financial goals, and tend to laundry and personal needs. It also provides guests with a much-needed mailing address during their transitional time.
With volunteers giving their time, making meals, and sharing hospitality, family homelessness is addressed without the creation of expensive shelters. Across the country, people have realized that this innovative approach truly makes a difference for families experiencing homelessness—and more than 200,000 volunteers.
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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.