The Emergency Shelter Program offers children and parents experiencing homelessness a safe place to sleep and stay while they get back on their feet. We offer shelter, food, case management, cash flow training, childcare, employment support as needed, housing referrals, and other resources to stabilize the entire family within 60 days.
We know a family’s most basic resources are food and shelter. Our signature shelter model allows us to partner with the interfaith community whose volunteers provide food, private overnight shelter, and friendly faces at their facilities one week at a time. It is a key outreach that allows families to set aside their worries each night and begin to feel “normal” again.
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Host Congregations
Provide private overnight hospitality accommodations (from 5pm to 5:30am) to families for 1 week, 3-4 weeks/year at their congregation's facilities.
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Hosting Volunteers
About 20-50 volunteers are involved during each host week to feed, shelter, and engage families at their congregation's facilities.
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Support Partners
Assist in hosting families at host congregation via volunteer and financial support.
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Community Resources
Social Work Team partners with agencies, schools, landlords, employers to coordinate services for guests.
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Case Management
Workshops, budgeting, job preparation, housing advocacy during 60-day Emergency Shelter Program and as a graduate for 2 years.
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Family Day Center x4
Case management, mail service, free laundry, play space plus shared apartment units featuring a modern and inviting living room, dining area, kitchen, wi-fi, and showers.
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Transportation
In-house van driver shuttles families between the host congregations and the Family Day Center.
Promise for Pets
Family Promise also offers shelter at our own Family Day Centers. We have four across the Valley — Mesa, Glendale, and two in south Scottsdale — and each one is home base for case management, laundry, and normal family life.
One of our Family Day Centers also uniquely welcomes the family pet! “Promise for Pets” is open to families with children in our Emergency Shelter Program. It offers private shelter, food, and veterinary care for all typical domestic pets and companion kennels for furry siblings.
