About Us
The Faith Community's Unique Response to Homeless Families
Across the nation, Family Promise affiliates like ours rely upon a network of area congregations who open their doors to families in
need. Families receive hospitality at each congregation for a week at a time with each family sleeping in its own private room
at the church. Every Sunday volunteers help to move the families to the next congregation in the rotation. Each church hosts
3-4 weeks annually.
Approximately 50 volunteers each week work to provide these guest families with basic human needs: shelter, safety, and sustenance. Just as important is their work in providing companionship, acceptance and dignity to each individual they welcome. Both volunteers and guests grow, learning from each other and coming to know one another as individual human beings with inherent worth.
The Day Center
During the day, guests in this program utilize our Family Promise - Salt Lake (FPSL) Day Center where they access shower and laundry facilities, computers, day-time meals and transportation assistance. Families use the Day Center address for housing and job applications so that no one need know they are "homeless."
Case Management
Staff works to support parents through intensive case management plans and to advocate for the services and assistance families need to regain their self-sufficiency. All parents receive both parenting and financial education classes while in our program and children are promptly enrolled in school.
Housing Retention
Statistics show that once homeless families are assisted into housing, on-going case management services, such as rent and utility assistance, budgeting assistance, referrals to government and community service etc., help them remain housed. FPSL serves an average of 30 families (90 individuals) a year with a housing retention rate of 100% after the first year and 86% in the second year.
Housing
FPSL is proud to operate several low cost units designated for low-income families in an effort to respond to the shortage of affordable housing.
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Board Members
President, Dawn Hoffman
Homemaker and long time volunteer
Vice President, Terry Rooney
Snow Christensen and Martineau
Treasurer, John-Erik Brammer
American Express Centurion Bank
Secretary, George Cannon
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Steve Graham
Utah Community Reinvestment Corporation
Charlie Roe
HJ and Associates
Missy Larsen
Community Activist
Sandra DeBry
University of Utah, Division of General Pediatrics
Lulu Barber
Pat's BBQ
Privacy Policy
Family Promise - Salt Lake has adopted the following Donor Information Privacy Policy to inform its individual contributors of the collection and retention of their information.
Donors are requested to provide limited personal information to Family Promise - Salt Lake (FPSL) so that FPSL can process donation transactions, provide contributors with charitable gifting tax information, and for donor recognition programs. The information is also retained in the financial records of FPSL for financial recording and internal financial accounting control purposes.
The providing of information by donors is completely voluntary.
To protect the confidentiality of this personal information Family Promise - Salt Lake uses appropriate technical and internal control measures to limit access to and control the retention of the information to ensure its use and access is limited to the above noted purposes.
Family Promise - Salt Lake will not communicate personal information about our donors to outside parties. FPSL does not sell or rent contributor information of any kind to outside parties.
Upon written request, FPSL allows donors access to their personal information and donors may specify that the information be edited or request the information not be retained.
Questions about this policy may be sent to:
Family Promise - Salt Lake, P.O. Box 996, Salt Lake City, Utah 84110-0996
Family Promise - Salt Lake takes the stewardship of your donations very seriously. Please know that in 2009-2010 Family Promise - Salt Lake was pleased to report an administrative/fundraising overhead of only 9.4%!
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