Salt Lake organization provides homeless families with support to get back on feet

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — For families experiencing homelessness, sometimes what’s missing isn’t the will to get back on their feet — it’s the support to get there.

That’s the idea behind Family Promise Salt Lake, where Executive Director Brian Diggs sees firsthand how much a community can change a family’s path.

“We believe that families don’t necessarily run out of money and become homeless. They run out of community,” Diggs said.

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He remembers one single mother with a two-month-old baby who was walking between the shelter, daycare and work. Then someone in the community stepped up and gifted her a car…

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