Welcome Alyssa!
Alysaa Cook was selected to be the interim executive director after our previous director, Charles Elmore, gave a 60 day resignation. Alyssa was an intern at Family Promise coming in through the UT College of Social Work internship program that Charles created during his first week as director more than two years ago.
Our Leader Charles Elmore’s time with Family Promise has came to an end. He turned in a 60 day resignation on January 28, 2025 and his last day was March 30, 2025. Charles’ legacy will be the programs he created during his time at Family Promise including his partnership with The University of Tennessee College of Social Work, outsourcing as case management with the exception of direct support to partnership agencies to ensure current trends were being followed and his added internships the ETHRA and WIOA to ensure that extra support was available for our program and its guests. In addition to working on program improvements, Charles also opened up Family Promise Thrift at the request of one of his employees who enjoyed thrifting at other area thrift stores and wanted more to do to fill her time. Charles also leaves Family Promise as their longest employee, breaking the company record by seven months.