Need Help?
Are you homeless or behind on your rent?
Family Promise is here to help.
Family Promise has a program for working families with dependent children who are currently experiencing homelessness and have a desire to change their lives.
We provide:
- A sheltering program with a path to self-sufficiency
- Homeless prevention
- Rental assistance

Our sheltering program offers families the opportunity to access resources, develop new skills and, with the help of a caring team of professionals, create a plan that empowers them to move toward self-sufficiency.
Opportunities to grow:
- Intensive case management
- Money management classes
- Job readiness instruction
- Empowerment workshops
- Life coaching
- Savings plan

In order to qualify for our programs you must:
- Be a family with at least one child under the age of 18
- Be working at least 35 hours/wk.
- Have a current lease
- Not be receiving any other subsidies
- Not have any evictions on your record
(Final eligibility is based on results of a formal screening process.)
Call us today at 201-833-8009 to learn how we can help.
Are you in need of food?
Family Promise Walk-In Dinner Program
A nutritious, complete dinner is sponsored by Family Promise seven days a week at the Housing, Health and Human Services Center, 120 South River Street in Hackensack. Free meals are distributed at the loading dock every day between the hours of 4:45pm and 5:50pm. Anyone can get a meal – no questions asked.
A nutritious, complete dinner is sponsored by Family Promise seven days a week at the Housing, Health and Human Services Center, 120 South River Street in Hackensack. Free meals are distributed at the loading dock every day between the hours of 4:45pm and 5:50pm. Anyone can get a meal – no questions asked.