Family Promise of Baldwin County Inc

A mother loses her job, a father is kept from working by an injury, a family is forced from their home by fire or natural disaster.  Healthcare costs soar, public transportation is underfunded, affordable housing is almost impossible to find.  These are the reasons why families now make up 40 percent of the homeless population, and why one out of every four homeless people is a child. In response to this crisis, Family Promise of Baldwin uses our Interfaith Hospitality Network to bring the faith community together to help families regain their housing, their independence, and their dignity.  Family Promise of Baldwin County is a partnership of congregations within a community helping families who are facing homelessness.  Family Promise of Baldwin County serves up to four homeless families with children at a time and in addition has three transitional houses that graduating families may use for us to six months rent free while they are getting back on their feet and becoming self reliant.  I call the families we serve the invisible homeless because they are fearful that their children will be taken from them by agencies or officials if they are found to be homeless.  They choose to be not seen or invisible while they bounce around between family and friends residents sleeping on couches, pallets on floors or even as one mother with four children, in sleeping bags on a concrete garage floor of an uncle until the aunt did not want them using her garage.  Many homeless families with children slept in their cars the night before coming into our program.  Each night at 5:30 PM our families are taken to the host church of the week where they use Sunday school rooms for temporary bedrooms and volunteers provide hospitality and all three meals for the families until the next morning when they are picked up and taken to our base of operations, the day center where the director and case manager work with the families on their personal goals toward getting back on their feet and self sufficient.  Please help us help them with your donation to our 501 (c)(3) non profit program.  We are also an United Way agency.