Family promise's mission is to prevent and END homelessness for families with children and help them achieve sustainable independence using a community-based response. Family promise is the national leader of emergency services for families at risk of and experiencing homelessness and offers a comprehensive, individualized and trauma-informed approach. Offering prevention, shelter, stabilization and housing, each program ascribes to national BEST practices YET is customized to the needs of the community. Family promise works to prevent homelessness and is often the only shelter solution in communities that will keep families in crisis together. Family promise's wraparound services help families quickly stabilize and secure long-term, affordable, safe housing. The national office provides technical assistance and expertise to a network of nearly 200 affiliates in over 40 states, mobilizing thousands of volunteers and serving approx. 60,000 families including 90,000 children each year.