Our Vision
Through collaborative partnership with churches, community organizations and volunteers, Family Promise of Manatee County will provide compassionate outreach to homeless families. Through the prudent use of financial resources, gifts and talents, Family Promise will provide supportive programs that enable these families to regain stability, independence and move beyond a temporary crisis of homelessness in a timely fashion.
Our Philosophy
Family Promise is a place of change, opportunity and choice. We encourage people to make positive decisions about their own lives, and above all to move away from homelessness and secure stable homes.We work with each person who comes to our programs to enable them to take responsibility for setting their own goals, making effective use of support services at the center and elsewhere, and achieve a better life for themselves and their children.
Our support services are delivered by experienced professional staff and volunteers, working in partnership with other agencies and crucial local Interfaith Organizations..
Our Programs
Family Promise of Manatee County has initiated numerous programs that assist homeless families regain their independence. These programs are:
- Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN) where a family sleeps and eat at a different church each week under the direct supervision of volunteers from that host and support churches.
- Family Promise Day Center allows the families to meet with their coordinator, gives them an address, access to a phone, internet, laundry, kitchen and shower facilities
- Transportation is provided for the IHN families to get them to and from the Churches and the day center, through the use of the FP Van and a volunteer driver. The van is also used to transport the children to day center and school.
- Program coordinator is a member of the FP staff who works with the families to develop and implements a plan for the families to follow so that they can quickly regain their independence from others.
- Mentoring is provided by trained volunteer mentors, who assist the families with financial, life skills and offer a lending ear and experience.
- Transitional Housing are for those families who are on their way to be independent but need some additional assistance before they achieve their full independence.
