Homelessness Is Not Limited to Adults There are currently 1.5 million children in America who are without a home each year! |
Family Promise began accepting families in Knoxville on July 1, 2005.
- Since that time we have provided shelter services to over 125 families.
- We have grown our network to include 16 host sites and another 26 support congregations and community based organizations.
- We have adopted the Family Promise of Knoxville name keeping our Interfaith Hospitality Network name for the shelter phase of our programs.
- We have added the Family Promise Academy and Going Home, Staying Home as two very successful components of our program.
Families are the fastest growing segment of our population.
- One out of every four homeless people are children.
- 42% of homeless children are under the age of 6.
- Families come into our program situationally homeless. Something has happened in their lives to cause them to become homeless, this is not a choice they have made consciously or easily.
- In today's economy, the majority of Americans find themselves 1 or 2 paychecks away from being homeless also.
Family Promise operates with the support of hundreds of compassionate volunteers throughout the Knox County region. It is with the help of these volunteers that we are able to operate on a very small, tight budget employing only two full-time social workers and two part-time van drivers.
- In 2011, our cost per family per day was $42.69.