General Info

Families Forward’s mission is to help homeless families become healthy, productive, and self-reliant. We provide shelter, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, intensive case management, and educational programming for the adults, children and teens in our care. In so doing, we play an important role in offering a pathway out of poverty and homelessness in Philadelphia, supporting an average of 800 individuals annually across our programs, including over 500 children annually (300 children at any point in time). Families Forward is the largest family shelter in the City of Philadelphia and our agency has been in operation for 100 years.