Faith And The City
Mentor A Family

Helping Homeless Families
Achieve Self-Sufficiency

The Faith And The City Mentor A Family Program – endorsed by the Regional Commission on Homelessness – works closely with the metro area’s faith and civic communities. Through these partnerships, we “mentor” working homeless families – helping them get off the streets, out of shelters, and into stable housing. We facilitate their efforts to achieve enduring independence and self-sufficiency.

Established in 2000, as the Shelter A Family Program, Mentor A Family has worked in partnership with scores of congregations and other organizations spanning the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities. These partnerships have helped hundreds of people – half of them children – to escape homelessness and secure permanent housing.

In response to the devastation along the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina, Mentor a Family is working also with displaced families evacuated from that region, helping them to secure housing and support systems in the Atlanta metro region.

Mentor A Family is one of several initiatives operated by Faith And The City, a private, non-profit organization founded in 1999 by Ambassadors James T. Laney and Andrew Young with the goal of encouraging a sense of shared responsibility and common destiny throughout the regional community.

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Brochure: Mentor A Family (Download PDF)

Brochure: Mentor A Family (Text Only Version)

Resource Guide: Hurricane Evacuee Relocation Guide for Congregations

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Guide for Congregations, Part 1: Download PDF
Guide for Congregations, Part 2: Download PDF
Guide for Congregations, Part 3: Download PDF

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