HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE

Day shelter, case management, hygiene services (showers/laundry), access to phone/mail/computer, mental/physical health services, job/life skills education, overnight inclement weather shelter.

Family Promise (formerly Angel House), a program of House of Neighborly Service, serves families with children that are experiencing. The 120 day program provides shelter, intensive case management, and education. Shelter is provided during the day at the day center in the Life Center and nightly at host churches throughout Loveland and Berthoud. Currently 9 churches have partnered with Family Promise to host homeless families for one week at a time. The churches provide a meal, a warm, safe private room for each family, and fellowship. The host churches are a critical part of the program. The volunteers at each church support the families not only with basic needs but emotionally as well.
During the day, while the families are at the day center they are very busy tackling their barriers to self-sufficiency. Parents are working or actively pursing employment, applying for benefits, obtaining vital education, and attending weekly case management meetings.
Families that enter the program are literally homeless and have several barriers to obtaining stable housing. During their stay at Family Promise of Larimer County those barriers are addressed one-on-one with their case manager.

Individuals and families are eligible to receive a food basket monthly. Baskets are designed to meet many different dietary needs and supply families with seven days of groceries to prepare complete meals. In an effort to accommodate the homeless population, baskets are available that do not require refrigeration or preparation. Additionally, when available, baskets include hygiene items, senior supplements, and even pet food. Last year, 329,674 pounds of food were distributed!

The basic needs program provides emergency shelter, utility assistance, back to school, and education to low-income individuals and families in our community.

In an effort to prevent at-risk families from entering the child welfare system, HNS partnered with Larimer County Department of Human Services and Child Welfare to implement Family to Family. Families with children aged 0-18 work one-on-one with the Family Advocate and Resource Specialist to address issues, crises, or barriers that are preventing them from optimal functioning. The assistance may be short or long term depending on the family's unique needs and ultimately seeks to prevent negative outcomes and reduce the number of children involved with child welfare.

HNS partners with utility providers, pharmacies, and gas stations to help meet a client's urgent need so they can remain stable, healthy and employed. Clients are asked to provide documentation of the emergency and proof of their current income.

Parents as Teachers (PAT) is a free parent education program available to families with children birth to age 5 or families who are expecting a child. Parents receive information regarding each stage of your child's development, activities to use with your child, and support for your parenting questions and concerns.

PAT is designed to foster strong, loving relationships between parents and their children. In the first few years, children learn more and at a faster pace than at any other time in life. Babies are born to learn, and we support parents as the child's first and most important teacher.

By the age of three, PAT children are significantly more advanced in language, problem solving, cognitive abilities and social development than the non-PAT children in the comparison group.

PAT children score higher on kindergarten readiness and standardized achievement tests in the early grades.
PAT parents display confidence in their parenting role and read more often to their children.
PAT parents are more involved in their children's schooling which is KEY to the child's success in school.

Our Mission is to provide the information, support, and encouragement parents need to help their children develop optimally during the crucial early years of life.