FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAVERTON
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Mission Statement
We are a united community helping stabilize and transform children and their families experiencing homelessness in Beaverton. We are a group of volunteers concerned about the number of children effected by homelessness in the Beaverton. Our school district had the largest number of children experiencing homelessness last year. We have NO shelters, No warming centers - No Emergency shelters ... nothing for the 1360 kids and their families that experienced homelessness last year ... and none this year. As volunteers we needed to step up to help these kids. We have modeled our efforts after a successful national model - Family Promise. With the help of the national Family Promise we know we can make a difference for the kids and their families that have nowhere to go on these cold rainy days and nights.
About This Cause
Family Promise of Beaverton is a volunteer driven nonprofit organization committed to help children and their families effected by homelessness in the Beaverton School District. Currently there are NO shelters for families experiencing homelessness in Beaverton. No warming shelters - No Emergency shelters - Nowhere for families to turn. Last year there were over 1360 children in the Beaverton School District that experienced homelessness. The highest number in the state of Oregon. This is a heartbreaking crisis that needs immediate action. Why do we have so many children and their families experiencing homelessness? Rents are continuing to rise at record rates, wages are not rising at the same 10-15% annual rental increase rate. Our rental vacancy rate is under 2.5%. People are loosing their apartments because they cannot afford the huge rent increases. Once people have lost their apartment due to large rent increases, they have an eviction on their record, and it is difficult to compete for apartments rentals. Feeling helpless to help our neighbors, we as volunteers decided to follow a successful volunteer driven national model which has a 76% success rate of placing families experiencing homelessness into permanent housing. Our main focus is to help our guest families get back into permanent, sustainable housing and employment as quickly as possible. While in our program, guests will receive food, shelter, and comprehensive support services. Guest’s families will also have the opportunity to develop enduring life skills through individualized case management by staff and through personal mentoring by volunteers. This will include financial counseling which can continue even after family has successfully solved the issue of homelessness. When we help parents meet their basic needs and give them the opportunity to create a plan to get back on their feet, they can begin to realize their dreams of providing a better life for their children. This improves the lives of future generations and also changes our community for the better. Our model is to find local churches and organizations that are willing to commit to housing our families for seven nights four times a year. Family Promise of Beaverton (FPB) coordinates the facilities as well as the day center the families go to daily from 7:00 am til approx 5:00 pm daily. School buses pick up the kids from the day center and return them to the day center every school day. The church or organization provides a cold breakfast as well as sack lunch for the families. Dinner is served at the host organization/church in the evening. Dinner is prepared either at the host facility or brought in by organization or church volunteers. Our organization has no religious affiliation, but we do utilize space and volunteers from the organizations as well as other non religious affiliated organizations. Because of our strong volunteer core, we are able to provide a family a safe warm place to sleep and transition their lives for under $20 a night vs a local low end hotel of $99. Family Promise of Beaverton, not only changes the lives of our guests ... as volunteers .... it transforms our lives as well.