General Information:
The mission of Family Promise is to help homeless and housing insecure children and their families build a path back home.
We accomplish this through a three-part program:
- Prevention
- helping housing insecure families stay in their homes and avoid homelessness
- Shelter
- providing shelter, meals, and intensive case management to homeless families with dependent children
- Stabilization
- following up with families who graduate into their own housing to assure they remain stable and have a plan to continue growing stronger Eligibility
- Family Promise is a nearly all-volunteer program that hosts guest families in the facilities of our partner congregations. We can accept guests who
- have at least one person over 18 and one person under 18 (where the adult has legal guardianship of the child) OR pregnant mothers in their 3rd trimester with no other children
- have no current active addiction - have no current untreated mental health problems that could lead to safety or security concerns for our volunteers or our partner congregations' facilities
- have no record of crimes against children - have no criminal history that would present a potential safety or security concern to our volunteers or partner congregations' facilities Families who join our program are hosted by one of our local partner congregations each week. The family eats dinner and breakfast and sleeps at the congregation’s facilities in a space converted into a bedroom for one week at a time. On Sunday, the beds and the family’s belongings are moved to the next host congregation. During the day, the Day Center is hosted by staff and volunteers. Staff work on case management and other activities to assist the family in moving forward in their journey to getting into their own residence again. The process is rigorous and adult family members are required to make progress on the goals set during their weekly case management meetings. Progress is assessed every 30 days. It is very important that the family be willing and able to take the necessary steps to become independent again. Most families thrive in our program and graduate into their own residence within a couple of months.
Website: https://familypromiseofcowlitzco.org/
How To Volunteer at Family Promise Of Cowlitz County:
Be a volunteer. Call Family Promise Of Cowlitz County at (360) 703-3131 for current volunteer work opportunities.
As A General Note About ShelterListings.org Listings:
ShelterListings.org does our best to provide listings that are free of cost. Many of the homeless shelters and services are free of charge. Some do charge small fees. We always urge the users of our website to visit the websites of the providers listed, OR give them a phone call to find out complete details.
In furtherance; Halfway Houses, Transitional Housing, and Substance Abuse Treatment Centers for the most part charge a fee. Most of the substance abuse resources we provide are low cost, Medicaid or sliding scale fee. We provide as much information as possible on the website of these locations.
Rooming and Boarding Houses do charge fees. We list them where we find them. They are a nice low cost option for housing.
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