Family Emergency Fund
The Family Emergency Fund helps families in need fill that gap.
Families often face financial struggles just to meet their basic needs. Stay-at-home moms may suddenly find themselves searching for work or selling their prized property. Unemployed fathers feel like a failure, are ashamed of losing their identity as the family’s provider. In addition, grown, adult men and women with children may find themselves moving back in with their parents until they can put the pieces of their lives back together. However, other families are moving in with each other. In other words, the shift from having “something” or having “nothing” is bad. Thus, when families faced with the grief of losing everything and the fear of never being able to recover. After that, these uncontrollable situations have a furious impact on families as a whole, on marriages, husbands, wives, parents, and children.
The program is to assist individuals and families quickly regain stability after experiencing unexpected life events.
Funding Details:
- Support for one household has an annual (12 month calendar year) cap of $300 and a lifetime cap of $500.
- Funds will be used to cover patient’s family bills or other family costs (i.e.: utilities, mortgage, rent, transitional housing, etc.).
- The Family Emergency Fund is a grant with limited funds. Therefore, once these funds are exhausted, it expected that it will be renewed the next grant cycle.
Household Requirements:
- Be currently undergoing financial distress and find it difficult to secure financing.
- Submit a completed application through the website.
Application Requirements:
- The applicant must exhaust other available funds for the family to receive financial assistance.
- The head of household must apply on behalf of the family and complete all sections of the form truthfully. Therefore, any false, incomplete, or misleading information will result in automatic request denial.
