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- More than eighty percent of Network guests secure permanent
housing.
- Intensive case management by IHN Director to assist in housing
and job searches and in meeting other needs.
- Safe, homelike lodging where families can stay together.
- Cost-effective mobilization of existing community resources.
- IHN does not institutionalize shelter as a solution to homelessness.
- Assists homeless families for about 1/3 the cost of public programs.
- IHN becomes catalyst for other community initiatives, such as
job counseling, parenting workshops, and transitional housing.
- Opportunity to make a difference in their own community.
- Opportunity for families to volunteer together.
- Range of volunteer jobs fits varying schedules, talents, and
commitment levels.
- Informs, energizes and motivates congregations.
- Offers meaningful family-centered outreach.
- Offers interfaith partnership.
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See News section for background articles
about successful IHNs.
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In a typical Interfaith Hospitality Network, half of the guests
are children, most of whom are under six years of age.
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