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Promise!

Ending Homelessness... One Family at a time

Family Promise assists families facing a housing crisis

Family Promise fights to end homelessness with each family we serve

We help almost 1,000 people in Kent County each year

Family Promise partners with children and their families by providing emergency shelter, basic needs and assists families in finding a place to call home!

Studies show that homeless children are four times as sick, twice as likely to go hungry and two times more likely to have a learning dis-ability than children living in stable housing.

When a parent worries about losing their home and is trying to figure out where to live, everyday responsibilities like helping their children with their homework, making healhy meals and reading bedtime sto-ries seem overwhelming.

Family homelessness is becoming more and more prevalent in our community. In Kent County, over 40 percent of the homeless population are families. Family Promise is doing everything in our power to end family homelessness.

The families we help are just like yours and mine, but they haven’t been able to overcome a difficult situation. That’s where Family Promise can help.

By focusing on one family at a time, we help local families build a strong foundation for their family’s future. We do this by providing emergency shelter, helping families find a home, and helping families keep that home.

When parents’ basic needs are met, they start to see a vision for their future and begin realizing their dreams! The children also begin to grow and blossom when they have a permanent place to call home, a community of support and a future full of possibilities.

“Mommy loves our new

home!”

“I like it when people read to me when mommy looks

for a job”

How Family Promise helps

IHN: Interfaith Hospitality NetworkIn partnership with local congregations, IHN

provides emergency shelter and basic needs to homeless children and their families. The families are hosted overnight in congregational facilities. During the day, the families work out of our Day

Center where they have access to computers, case managers, food and basic necessities.

Partners in HousingRefurbishes manufactured homes in family parks

throughout Grand Rapids. This program takes families from homeless to homeowner in nine months of occupancy! These “forever homes”

provide stability, asset building and ensures that children will never be homeless again.

The Pathway Home ProgramThis new and innovative partnership with Mel

Trotter Ministries provides a 300% expansion of our community’s family emergency shelter and

rehousing services by using existing resources! By our entrepreneurial approach of bringing our core competencies together we will help more than 175

homeless families every year. This collaboration serves an additional 22 families every night

Aftercare Is available to all families exiting our emergency

shelter programs into permanent housing. Our case managers work with the family for up to nine months after shelter exit to help families maintain permanent housing and build assets to support self-sufficiency.

“I like seeing my dad smile

again”

516 Cherry Street SEGrand Rapids, MI 49503

(616) 475-5220www,FamilyPromiseGr.org

“You really get your strength back when you think of your child and how they are going

to live in their future.That’s what did it.

What motivated me was looking in my little girl’s eyes

and thinking I don’t want you to have the lifestyle I was used to

living in.”

To help families facing a housing crisis, please visit www.FamilyPromiseGr.org/Donate to donate online or mail your gift to Family

Promise of Grand Rapids.

Family Promise depends on the generosity of volunteers and donors to keep our ministry alive. There are many ways for individuals,

families, churches and businesses to become involved. Whatever way you can help, big or small, makes a difference in the lives of

children and their parents.