How We Help - Programs That Make a Difference!
You may not think homeless families inhabit our suburbs, but they’re here…in growing numbers. These families may have been very much like your's and mine until a personal tragedy (for example, a job loss, or family break-up) left them without the financial resources necessary to cope. When that happens, most families quickly exhaust the support of relatives and friends. Finding adequate employment, health care, and affordable child care can seem insurmountable. Long-term goals and dreams that enhanced their lives before disappear in the daily struggle for food and shelter.
Fortunately, that’s when a simple phone call to Inter-Faith Housing Alliance can start a family on the road back — by extending a helping hand and providing them with a place to live, enough to eat, and help developing new skills, finding a job, and becoming independent.
Maybe you’ve heard about Inter-Faith, but aren’t certain how it works. We’re a non-profit, inter-faith organization made up totally of caring volunteers – and a small staff – all dedicated to helping the area’s homeless get back on their feet. We rely on contributions of time and money from local churches, synagogues, service organizations, businesses, and caring individuals like you.
Inter-Faith's mission is to serve God by providing charitable services to persons located in Montgomery County whose life situations have become unstable. These charitable services shall include homelessness prevention, temporary shelter, guidance in life skills, and assistance in locating appropriate housing opportunities thus enabling families at risk to remain in or return to independent living.
Inter-Faith Housing Alliance is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization established in May 1982 as a response to the emergency needs of homeless and low-income families in Montgomery County, PA. In 1989 the Inter-Faith Hospitality Network (IHN) was established to provide emergency shelter to homeless families. Over time, Inter-Faith's programs have grown to successfully address these families' long-term housing needs. In 1995, Hope Gardens, an eight apartment transitional housing complex was built in Ambler.
In 1998 a "second" IHN was developed to accommodate homeless families in the North Penn area and now operates independently.