Footbridge provides rapid financial support to families facing short-term financial crises which have no other solution. Founded in 2020, the organization has filled in the gap and prevented a crisis for over 2,000 families in Pennsylvania to date.

Both survey and administrative data about our clients six months post-intervention indicate that despite being in a highly vulnerable situation, they were able to avoid utilization of our community's most expensive systems following Footbridge's help. In the six months following Footbridge aid, 0.04% of our clients had to use an emergency shelter with none of our clients having to use a day shelter; less than 1% of clients had an inpatient hospitalization; and only 1.5% sought services for a mental health crisis. One-third of our clients state that we helped mitigate a mental health crisis and 74% report that receiving financial assistance from Footbridge has enabled them to be their best selves when parenting. Excluding families with child welfare involvement prior to our intervention, only 2% of our clients had to have a child welfare case opened in the six months following our aid and 0.5% had a placement.