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Many Groups Benefit by working with Family Promise IHN, Including...
Guests
- Safe, homelike shelter where families stay together
- Caring volunteers
- Intensive Case Management
- Approximately 70% of guests secure permanent housing
Volunteers
- Their opportunity to directly help homeless families and make a difference
- Their opportunity to work in an outreach ministry within their own house of worship
- The wide range of volunteer activities to fit various schedules and levels of commitment
- Their opportunity for family to volunteer together
Congregations
- The opportunity for outreach ministry within own facilities
- Participation in a community interfaith project
- Increased sense of community as members work together in a shared mission
Community
- Cost-effective mobilization of community resources
- Does not duplicate services
- Does not institutionalize shelter as a solution to homelessness
- Catalyst for community initiative
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