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.
Mentoring
For the Fiscal Year 06/07 we are pleased to celebrate an 84% success rate at transitioning the families we serve to stable housing. In order to sustain the success our families have achieved, FPSL seeks to maintain relationships with our past guests for up to two years through our trained volunteer Mentor Program.
Housing
FPSL is proud to operate 3 low cost apartments designated for low-income families in an effort to respond to the shortage of affordable housing.
Click here for a brief history of Family Promise - Salt Lake
Board Members
President, Steve Graham
Utah Community Reinvestment Corporation
Treasurer/Secretary, Scott Werrett
American Express Centurion Bank
Ross Curley
Utah School for the Deaf and Blind
Dawn Hoffman
Homemaker and long time volunteer
Jodi Gross
LBC Advertising
Terry Rooney
Snow Christensen and Marineau
Alan Seim
Utah Democratic Party
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 is proud to report an administrative/fundraising overhead of only 12.8%!