• At the core of our network is the WCIHN Family Resource Center. In addition to providing case management, the Resource Center offers guest families a safe, home-like environment with living, play, and work areas as well as restrooms, dressing rooms, showers, kitchen, and laundry facilities. The Resource Center also offers families a means of communication by serving as their temporary address and telephone number. Since it is centrally located in Warren County near public transportation and county agencies, parents can easily access house and employment opportunities, as well as appropriate social services. Also, children who are attending school are picked up in the morning from the Resource Center and returned in the afternoon by their school districts.
• In the evening, the WCIHN transports guest families to a Host Congregation for dinner, overnight accommodations, and breakfast; guests arrive about 5:30 PM and leave the following morning for the Resource Center by 7:00 AM. Congregations host only 14 family members, about 3 to 5 guest families, for one week of evenings anywhere from 4-5 times a year. Hosting begins on Sunday evening and ends the following Sunday morning.
• Support Congregations and volunteers assist Host Congregations in preparing meals, hosting evenings, providing family activities, helping with homework, telling bed-time stories, feeding infants, and so forth. There are more than 50 volunteer opportunities available each week, such as volunteers can assist in setting up and taking down IHN furniture and beds at Host Congregation facilities or in providing other services needed. The WCIHN coordinates these daily and weekly activities among its participating congregations and volunteers.
• The Warren County IHN interacts with local community and government agencies for needed support services and for guest family referrals. In ensuring that WCIHN remains a healthy and safe environment for both families and volunteers, guests are assessed in advance for substance and alcohol abuse, acute psychiatric problems, or issues of family abuse. Families admitted into the Warren County Interfaith Hospitality Network include families with single parents or both parents and children only; homeless individuals unfortunately can not be accommodated in the network.
• The Warren County Interfaith Hospitality Network helps families in a way that keeps parents and kids together in their communities and schools while preserving the family's safety, dignity, and well being.

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