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Family Promise and The Company Store Partner
Family Promise, the nation’s leading volunteer-driven nonprofit serving homeless families, and The Company Store, which has offered top quality pillows and comforters, sheets, towels, and home accessories since 1911, have partnered on the Buy One, Give One Comforter Donation Program to benefit homeless children across the country.
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Family Promise and The Company Store Partner
Family Promise, the nation’s leading volunteer-driven nonprofit serving homeless families, and The Company Store, which has offered top quality pillows and comforters, sheets, towels, and home accessories since 1911, have partnered on the Buy One, Give One Comforter Donation Program to benefit homeless children across the country.
According to a recent USA Today article, the number of homeless families in shelters increased 7% from 2008 to 2009. According to a US government report, "The recession continued to take its toll as more families with children became homeless for the second straight year." Read full article at USA Today.
A Survey of Charlotte Homeless
This week, the Charlotte Housing Authority surveyed Charlotte area homeless men and women to determine who is chronically homeless in Charlotte. The Charlotte Housing Authority wants to use this information to learn what it might take to get these men and women off the streets permanently.
It is believed that there are approximately 6500 homeless people in Charlotte. Of those, advocates believe there are 500 who are chronically homeless.
Julie Rose of WFAE, Charlotte's NPR station, spoke this week to a man who has been homeless in Charlotte for over 10 years.
To read or listen to the story from WFAE, click here.
Assessing the scope of homelessness in Charlotte. Picture from WFAE.org.
What Services are Provided by Family Promise of Charlotte
Program Services include:
Shelter in home-like settings in host congregations for one or two weeks at a time on an ongoing rotational basis
Intensive case management to identify barriers to self-sufficiency
Budgeting and debt repayment (Families will be required to save 90% of income not used to pay off debts)
Help with finding employment and permanent housing, as well as referrals to appropriate community resources
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