Successes and Accomplishments

March 10, 2006 – April 1, 2013

• Provided shelter and opportunities to 333 people. This includes 99 separate families, 171 children and 155 adults. We have hosted 55 babies 0-2 years, 35 preschoolers 3-5 years, 70 children ages 6-12 and 17 teens. 

• 12 Host Congregations and 11 Partner Congregations are active participants.  All congregations have at least 1 skilled volunteer coordinator and have actively recruited and organized volunteers to help provide 24 hour services.

• 1,500 volunteers have completed the 2 hour Family Promise training necessary before providing direct guest services.

• These volunteers have contributed over 70,000 direct service volunteer hours of service since March 10,2006! Additionally, over 2,275 days of warm shelter and home-cooked meals have been provided to our guests. There have been no vacant days for three years.

• Our Family Day Center at 429 East Story Street is fully paid for thanks to a generous contribution by Tim and Mary Barnard! It is full of warm, comfortable furnishings, and is a safe haven for families during the day and on the weekends. 

• A full-time Executive Director and Family Case Manager who are professional social workers have actively assisted families in regaining independence and provided valuable case management activities. Over 80% of the families completing the program have successfully attained stable housing. 

• A full-time Volunteer Director was hired January 2010 to provide volunteer recruitment, training, retention and support. In 2013 an AmeriCorps/VISTA position was created to start 2 new programs: family mentoring and Just Neighbors, a poverty awareness curriculum. 

• Family Promise has two transitional living opportunities available: the Stepping Stone Apartment in the basement of the Family Day Center and 108 Mineral, a three bedroom home in west Bozeman. Graduate families pay half the normal amount of rent ($300 and $600 respectively) and receive continued case management. 

• Social service agencies are actively working together to coordinate service delivery and address and end homelessness. FPGV has taken a leadership role in development of our local continuum of care, the Greater Gallatin Homeless Action Coalition.

• The population at large has an increasing awareness of homelessness in the Gallatin Valley. 50% of Family Promise’s funding is from local individual and business contributors.