Prevention and Transition

Our goal is to ​help the families we serve succeed today and creating transformational opportunities for tomorrow. 

Preventing families from becoming homeless in the first place just makes sense.

Workforce development. Partners in Housing. Financial capability. Health and wellness. Homelessness has many causes and housing stability involves many solutions. Family Promise has a program that addresses every aspect of stabilization.

​Our goal is not simply getting families into housing; it is keeping  them in housing. We work to help the families we serve succeed today and creating transformational opportunities for tomorrow. 

Understanding  homelessness

We've compiled some important statistics about homelessness. Feel free to save these images as a reference for your own research. Family Promise of Great Falls will add more research to this page periodically. Be sure to peruse the many links we have included at the bottom of this page!

resources to learn more

 Family Promise (National headquarters)
Infographics about family homelessness
Fact sheet about family homelessness

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Homelessness 
2016 Family Options Study 

The Bassuk Center
About their mission to end family homelessness

Administration for Children and Families
Home Page

National Alliance to End Homelessness
About their mission to end homelessness in general
About their Center for Evidence-Based Solutions to Homelessness  

National Low-Income Housing Coalition
About their mission to advocate for sound housing policies for low-income families 
Their resource library to learn more about policy for low-income families and for housing

Center for Housing Policy
Their 2015 report on homelessness and how it affects early childhood development

Child Poverty Action Group
2018 Our Kids, Our Future report with data and recommendations from 20+ papers

SchoolHouse Connect
Home page
Statistics about homeless unaccompanied youth

ChildTrends
Their research and multi-year breakdown of homeless children and related statistics

​Data USA
About their project to visualize data from multiple government agencies concerning communities and populations
Their most current data about Great Falls, MT