Our Story

In 2015, Nancy and David Broderick, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Brad and Linda Waddoups, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, invited representatives from several Ogden area churches to come together to explore the possibility of providing support in which families facing homelessness could stay together while receiving overnight care. Family Promise is a national organization that prioritizes keeping families together in local partnership with churches and community resources to provide a dignified and sustainable path to self-sufficiency. The group was unanimous in their choice of Family Promise as the oversight and structure for their vision. The commitment ran deep to create Family Promise of Ogden, the second affiliate in Utah.

In 2016, after hiring our first and current executive director, Raquel Da Silva, we received our nonprofit status. Our board of directors shared our mission and goals with Ogden City, and they generously donated a retired fire station for use as our day center and administrative offices.
Our churches and volunteers enthusiastically opened their doors and hearts to our first families for meals and overnight accommodations. After sharing our vision with Mayor Brent Taylor and the North Ogden City council, they offered to let us use the former North Ogden Public Works building (utilities included) as an overnight shelter for our families. Volunteers from the community remodeled the building. EK Bailey Construction, community volunteers, and the Seventh-day Adventist church on 21st Street coordinated efforts in the remodeling of the church gathering building for the same purpose. This made it possible for churches and organizations who were not able to provide overnight accommodations, to provide meals, sleeping quarters, overnight security, and compassionate conversation.
From 2019-2025 two other locations on 24th Street were used as day centers.

In October 2025, after many, many generous grants, donations and volunteer hours, we opened our own center in Harrisville. We believe families should stay together during one of the most difficult times in their lives, to be treated with compassion and respect, and to mobilize volunteers and community resources. That is the reality at Family Promise of Ogden.
Our staff and hundreds of volunteers provide basic life necessities such as food, shelter, clothing, transportation, a personalized plan for success through professional case management, access to childcare, healthcare, positive encouragement, and other community supported resources with the goal of making financial independence a reality. We continue to be Hope in Action for families with children experiencing homelessness. Ongoing funding is generously provided by individual donors, businesses, foundations, churches, state and local agencies.