CHEYENNE -- The Cheyenne Interfaith Hospitality Network will now be called Family Promise Cheyenne.

The organization shelters homeless families in local churches and in a duplex that it owns while working with them to become self-sufficient.

"We feel that (the new name) speaks more to the scope of work that we do," said Trish Peacock, the organization's executive director.

It's also easier to connect it with the national organization, which changed its name to Family Promise a few years ago.

Plus it's easier to remember and less of a tongue-twister to say.

The structure and mission will not change, nor will its interfaith status and work with local faith groups.

Although Family Promise Cheyenne is not exactly a religion-based group, "I would call the interfaith part of it the backbone of our organization," Peacock said.

A total of 14 faith groups, including Mt. Sinai Synagogue and the Islamic Center of Cheyenne, provide shelter, volunteers or both to support Family Promise Cheyenne.

The goal is to provide shelter and counseling to homeless families with children and to get them back on their feet and self-sufficient, Peacock said. In fact, like the new name states, it's the organization's promise.

That has become more challenging lately as more families have found themselves homeless during the recession, she said.

Many of the parents they help need to find less-skilled work, and those jobs have been harder to find lately.

"Just within the last month, we've been seeing those jobs available again," Peacock said.

Recently, the organization sheltered a mother and her 3-day-old baby.

It's an example of why the organization exists, she added: "To be able to put a 3-day-old baby (and the mother) into a faith community where they are not only safe, but have volunteers that rally around to make sure that that baby has all its needs taken care of."