Ways You Can Help

 

Impact of Giving


Thank you for considering a contribution to Housing Families Inc. Your gift helps advance our mission to end family homelessness.

At Housing Families, we believe that everyone deserves a place to call home. Your donation will directly aid homeless and low-income children and families on their journey toward renewed hope and stability.


Your contribution of any size is enough to make a difference! 

$25 ● 45 Healthy Snacks for Kids in our GREAT Youth and Families Program

Children experiencing homelessness are twice as likely to go hungry as non-homeless children. 1 They also have high rates of obesity due to nutritional deficiencies. 2

Your $25 donation will provide 45 children with nutritious snacks to boost brain power during afternoon tutoring sessions that encourage improved school performance.

 

$50 ● Individual Counseling for a Child or Group Therapy for 7 Children

Children experiencing homelessness have three times the rate of emotional and behavioral problems as their peers. 3 Among school-age homeless children 36 % show delinquent or aggressive behavior, compared to 17% of their peers. 4

Your $50 donation will provide children with individual counseling or group therapy within a holistic program that teaches and promotes non-violent communication and builds kids' self-esteem.

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$100 ● 1 Night of Safe Shelter for a Family

Over 92% of homeless mothers have experienced severe physical and/or sexual abuse during their lifetime. 5 By age twelve, 83% of homeless children have been exposed to at least one serious violent event. 6

Your $100 donation will provide safe, quality temporary housing, for a mother to rest her head without worrying about her well-being or her child's safety for at least one night.

  

$250 ● 1 Week of Housing Search for 28 Families

74% of homeless children worry that they will have no place to live. (Stat?) 7 In addition, 58% worry that they will have no place to sleep, 8 and 87% worry that something bad will happen to their family.9

Your donation of $250 will provide one week of intensive housing search services to help 28 families that are currently living in a shelter . From the day they arrive in the shelter, families work closely with HFI staff to identify housing opportunities, complete applications and move into new homes.

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Housing Families returns approximately 85% of every donation directly to our programs for families in crisis.


Housing Families is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization. Your contribution is tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. 

 

1 The National Center on Family Homelessness. (1999). Homeless Children: America's New Outcasts. Newton, MA.
2 Schwarz, KB et al. (2007). High prevalence of overweight and obesity in homeless Baltimore children and their caregivers: a pilot study. Clinical Nutrition and Obesity. 9(1): 48; Grant, R. et al. (2007). The health of homeless children.
3 National Child Traumatic Stress Network. (2005). Facts on Trauma and Homeless Children.
4 National Center on Family Homelessness, 1999.
5 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, 2007; Bassuk, EL et al. (1996). The characteristics and needs of sheltered homeless and low-income housed mothers. Journal of the American Medical Association, 276(8): 640-646.
6 Bassuk, EL et al, 1996; National Center on Family Homelessness. (1999). Homeless Children: America’s New Outcasts. Newton, MA.; Bassuk et al, 1997; Buckner, J. et al (2004). Exposure to violence and low-income children’s mental health: Directed, moderated, and mediated relations. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 74(4):413-423.
7 National Center on Family Homelessness, 1999.
8 National Center on Family Homelessness, 1999.
9 National Center on Family Homelessness, 1999.