Family Promise of Lower Bucks will be picking up it’s many collection canisters currently located in many local businesses as it wraps up its Tuck One In campaign. Donations can be made on this website or mailed to us at the address on this site? Easy, Safe and Secure donations can be made here thru Paypal, or a Credit Card. Take this opportunity to help us help the many homeless school aged children and their families here in lower bucks.
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A very special thank you to Millers Ale House for hosting us and providing a great opportunity at their Langhorne restaurant to heighten awareness and raise money to help us gear up to help homeless families in Lower Bucks.

Many of our friends and supporters came out and supported this event? Thank you!

Family Promise is a national faith based program with around 200 successful networks up and running across the country. Our local affiliate Family Promise of Lower Bucks is locally individualized and governed to address the unique issues here in Lower Bucks County.

A 501(c)(3) non profit partners with local congregations of all faiths to provide shelter, hot meals, warm beds and loving support while the guests complete goal oriented tasks that will help them get back into self sustainable housing.

Prior to being accepted into our program we screen for substance abuse, criminal backgrounds and mental health issues to ensure safety of all our guests and proper utilization of our resources. The national program has an impressive successful placement rate into self sufficient housing of nearly 80%. That is our biggest difference. That and the fact that our congregations focus on families, love, support, respect and the program is very structured with real goals.

As you go out into the world today and put on a jacket with your coffee and you send your kids off to school with every blessing you have remember there are 500 kids right here in Lower Bucks county registered in the seven local school districts that are identified as homeless. No home to call their own, no bed that is theirs, not knowing where the next hot meal will come from. Now they have to go out to school and face all the typical peer pressure on top of all the things no child should have too. Now should this child be outside your home and ask for help… What would you do? Pride will most likely prevent this from happening but on behalf of them I am asking you to help.
Take a minute donate some money at this site FPLB.org by Paypal a credit card or mail a check. Any amount will help. You will be helping us to prepare to provide full services to these children and their families. We will screen our clients for substance abuse and criminal background checks. We will work closely with each family to mentor them and maintain goals and direction with guidance, love and support by members of our faith communities and business leaders. Our national organization has an impressive success rate of nearly 80% at placing our families back into SELF supporting sustainable living and housing not in a repetitive cycle of homelessness. We are working hand in hand with the Bucks County Homeless Consortium. The family services Emergency Shelter and allk the other excellent programs that are here to serve the homeless population. Our big difference is the fact that the family must have a child. No matter what the family make up a school aged child must be in the family. We will get and give referrals to the other service providers all having unique approaches and providing services that work best for them. All of these agencies want to some day not have the need for these services but today that is not the case.
Please help Family promise of lower. Bucks prepare to begin providing services by donating some money today. Right Now. You will feel so good knowing you did.
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Sydney Swope of Family Promise of Lower Bucks receives a $250.00 donation from SEPA Wrestling Club coach Joe Erb at last nights practice at Carl Sandburg school in Highland Park. A partnership has been formed to help FPLB Tuck One In helping homeless children in Lower Bucks.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OCT. 8, 2013
Contact: Jerry Coleman of Family Promise Lower Bucks, 215-547-0569
Joe Erb of SEPA Wrestling, 215-380-3499
Local Wrestling Club Supports Homeless Children’s Charity “Tuck One In” with Donation.
LEVITTOWN – Addressing the county’s growing number of homeless families, Family Promise of Lower Bucks has an awareness and fundraising campaign underway and more than 150 area businesses are supporting the campaign through October to “Tuck One In.”
Coin collection canisters can be found now at about 150 area businesses throughout Lower Bucks County. The familiar canisters are emblazoned with the Tuck One In logo – a reference to the 400 to 500 children in Bucks County who don’t have the benefit of sleeping in their own bed at night.
A local youth wrestling club, Southeast Pa Wrestling is a youth based organization dedicated to teaching and promoting the sport of wrestling. The goal of the club is to provide a safe, positive, and constructive learning environment for the wrestlers. With these characteristics as our foundation, we believe that our wrestlers will learn the values of discipline, hard work, and determination. SEPA made a donation to the FPLB “Tuck One In” campaign at its wrestling practice on Tuesday evening at Carl Sandburg Middle School on Harmony Road in Levittown. SEPA works very closely with a diverse group of young men and recognizes that fact there our economy is hitting some families very hard so they wanted to help homeless children. Club founders and coach’s Joe Erb, Kurt Paroly and Jay Saunders dedicate many hours helping to shape the lives of children and said “its hard to imagine what a child must go thru not having the basic things most have.” The club will collect donations for Family Promise of Lower Bucks through out its 2013-2014 season. The club practices at Carl Sandburg on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
Along with the collection canisters Family Promise of Lower Bucks will be hosting four area restaurant events “dining out” nights from which proceeds will be donated to the campaign.
Family Promise of Lower Bucks, part of Bucks County’s Continuum of Care network of homeless support, soon expects to announce a location for a permanent day center to be used by homeless families in Lower Bucks. There, in a homelike setting, a small group of families – 3 to 4 at a time – will have a place to spend their days while working with trained professionals on finding work, budgeting and other self-sufficiency skills.
Candidates in this program are screened for criminal backgrounds and substance abuse. These factors help the national model of the program to boast a nearly 80% success rate in placing families back into self supportive housing.
In the evenings, the congregations working with Family Promise will provide dinner and a place to stay for these families. To date, congregations that have stepped forward to host or support the families are: Church of Living Hope in Langhorne; Highland Park Community Church, Levittown; Lutheran Church of the Resurrection,Yardley; United Christian Church, Levittown; First Presbyterian Church of Levittown; Hope Lutheran Church, Levittown; Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Lower Bucks, Langhorne; Zubaida Foundation Mosque, Yardley.
FPLB continues to recruit congregational partners and has determined that 13 are needed before services will be delivered.
About Family Promise of Lower Bucks
A 501c3 organization, FPLB is an affiliate of Family Promise, a national organization with 180 networks across the U.S. Nationally, nearly 80 percent of families mentored by FP return to self-sufficiency. The organization model is to work with a small number of drug-free, mentally healthy clients at one time.
More about Tuck One In
Restaurant promotions will take place on the following dates and locations:Thursday, Oct. 10, 4 to 10 p.m. at Buffalo Wild Wings in Langhorne; Tuesday, Oct. 15, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Kris Crois, Fairless Hills; Thursday, Oct. 24 from 5 to 8 p.m., Chick-Fil-A, Langhorne; Tuesday, Oct. 29, all day and night, Miller’s Ale House.
More information
Online: https://www.fplb.org/
Facebook: facebook.com/FamilyPromiseOfLowerBucks
Mail tax-deductible donations at: Promise of Lower Bucks, 837 Hoe Road, Levittown, PA 19056
sepawrestling.com
SEPAWrestling@aol.com

On September 9 at the monthly Board of Trustees meeting of Family Promise of Lower Bucks the new board was put in place. This years board continues to reflect the diverse community in which we live.

Board members are:

Lisa Kulan - President

Jerry F. Coleman - Vice President

Diane Casey - Secretary

Maryann Hamer - Treasurer

Bryan Allen

Lori Corporale

Anita Getz

Richard C. Kelly

Krista Paone

Betty Scheich

Rev. Dr. Dan Young

This team of community leaders are charged with moving forward toward serving the more then 500 identified school aged children in the 7 lower bucks county school districts. Together with local interfaith congregations Family Promise of Lower Bucks will provide a structured plan including lodging, food, support, training and love to help get the families back into self-sustainable housing.

Unlike other local programs candidates will be screened for substance abuse, criminal backgrounds and mental health issues prior to acceptance into the focused structure. Our program also requires there to be a school aged child in the family unit. We keep the family together while sleeping and having dinner and community time at local churches, mosques, temples and meeting houses.

A program coordinator will work with the Bucks County Continuum of Care and Homeless Placement hotline to help serve the many homeless people in Lower Bucks. Each family will have an active goal oriented structure that will require specific progress being made toward placement and financial stability.

If you are interested in helping Family Promise of Lower Bucks you can contact us at fplb@comcast.net or by calling Lisa Kulan at 215-547-0569.

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Recent statistics have identified that there are around 500 children in Bucks County that are identified as homeless. This means they do not have a permanent address, they do not have a bed to call their own, they are unsure when or where their next hot meal will come from. Some may sleep on a friend or relatives couch or floor. Some may be in an inexpensive hotels isharing beds with little to no privacy and making it even harder to save money toward permanent housing when a first and last months rent may be needed.. Family Promise of Lower Bucks is working hard under the umbrella of the national organization family promise who has about 180 chapters through out the United States and boast a near 80% success rate of placing families that have been guests in their program back into self sustainable permanent housing. This success rate is most likely a result of the screening and intense structure of the program. It is very goal oriented so the families have to do their part while being offered structured support, love and training.

Please visit our other pages on this website, learn about us and then shoot us an email fplb@comcast.net and ask any questions you may have or tell us how you can help us help homeless kids!