Family Promise Montco PA

With the pause of SNAP benefits, we are leaning on philanthropic partners, volunteers, and the community to help us meet rising need with fewer available resources. With funding support, we are expanding our advocacy work to build greater community awareness of the crisis and to amplify the voices of our families. Our Project will support our current advocacy work in the faith community, while helping us participate in or lead community events, and capitalize on our broader community partnerships to advance our advocacy. Funding is critical to this work as we brace for skyrocketing need and worsening conditions for our families that will require us to divert as much of our budget as possible towards direct family assistance.

As a long-time leader in homeless services in Montgomery County, we are expanding our Housing Program with a critical array of support services designed to improve the likelihood that families can avoid an episode of homelessness by remaining stably housed in their current homes. By continuing to work with these families, we can then help them progress towards economic self-sufficiency and long-term housing stability. Formalizing our Prevention, Diversion, and Stabilization services will help us identify evolving needs so we can respond quickly and appropriately to families experiencing housing insecurity.

Funding to support current advocacy work in the faith community, while helping Family Promise Montco PA participate in or lead community events and capitalize on our broader community partnerships to advance our advocacy. Funding is critical to this work as we brace for skyrocketing need and worsening conditions for our families that will require us to divert as much of our budget as possible towards direct family assistance. 

To provide support to Family Promise MontCo PA, a valued and long-standing partner, in advancing their mission to promote equity in the communities they serve and respond to current, urgent needs. 

This project aims to leverage relationships with the faith community to improve systems, policies, and programs. Its key strategies include engaging and activating volunteer leaders from 50 congregations by providing information and workshops on advocacy, informing key religious leaders through the Wissahickon Faith Community Association (WFCA), utilizing email and social media to educate the broader community, and developing partnerships with Access Services to build community power within the faith community.

To advance Family Promise Montco PA's mission and strengthen the county’s safety net for families experiencing homelessness, housing insecurity, and hunger, through investments in staff training, professional development, and overall staffing capacity.