Family Promise of Hawai’i is a new and innovative program to help families with children escape homelessness. Our mission is to mobilize existing community resources to help families experiencing homelessness transition to sustainable independence.

We do this by developing, training, and supporting a network of interfaith congregations whom host families quarterly. Each host site provides a safe place to sleep, good food, and generous hospitality. Guests stay at a host site for a week, then move onto another host site.

During the day, guests work, pursue employment, attend school, or enroll in job training. A Family Center provides access to phones, mail, fax, a copier, showers, and laundry facilities. The program provides transportation to and from the host sites and the Family Center.

Three to five families (up to 14 people) can be accommodated by each network at any given time. In March 2006, the Windward Network and Family Center opened; and the Honolulu network opened in July 2007.