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Sign-up for a monthly donation of $26.53 or more to become a Youth Champion! Your monthly gift will provide shelter, meals, and vital programs that will help youth experiencing homelessness and trafficking. Lend your voice and advocate for the rights of youth facing homelessness and survivors of trafficking. Young people experiencing homelessness face complex stress and trauma in their everyday efforts to survive. We offer counseling, traditional talk therapy, and other wellness programs such as yoga, art and music therapy, religious and spiritual services, and physical fitness.
Our Shelter
This year Covenant House California provided 83,329 nights of housing for young people experiencing homelessness in California. Our job training, education and life skills programs help young people transition to independence. Through it all, Covenant House is guided by the principles of offering every young person unconditional love and absolute respect. People of color experience homelessness at higher rates, largely due to long-standing structural racism that impacts education, housing, and other inequities.
A Critical Need For Shelter
We offer them a welcoming and safe environment based on absolute respect, unconditional love, and relentless support, where we believe in and encourage their resilience. Each year, millions of young people across the countries where we operate face a period of homelessness. Our services and programs help those youth overcome the harsh experience of being unhoused.
Carlette Mack
Each year, an estimated 4.2 million young people in the United States experience a form of homelessness. Many different factors contribute to youth homelessness, but some of our most vulnerable populations face the greatest risk. We recognize the fundamental worth of every human being, and create a safe setting where all youth – regardless of life experience or identity – are served without judgement. Carolina Escobar Sarti, Ph.D., has been the national director of Covenant House Guatemala since 2010 and is devoted to the children and youth in our care there. Carolina is one of Guatemala’s most recognized poets, authors, and national newspaper columnists and she writes regularly on human rights issues. Guatemala’s president named Carolina the country’s ambassador for peace in 2011.
Young people may also participate in our transitional housing program, Rights of Passage, our Supportive Apartments Program and Rapid-Rehousing. Despite having a board of directors, Covenant House's public face has tended to be its presidents. Father Bruce Ritter founded Covenant House and served as president from 1972 to his resignation in 1990.
Our Services
Your gift today provides shelter and essential support services to young people facing homelessness. Covenant House is the largest, primarily privately funded charity in North and Central America providing immediate and long-term support for young people facing homelessness and survivors of trafficking. Our donors allow us to meet the emerging needs of our youth and accelerate our work. Our comprehensive youth-driven programming is centered on unconditional love, absolute respect and relentless engagement. For National Random Acts of Kindness Day, your act of kindness can truly help young lives! Every $1 of your generous gift becomes $4 worth of hot meals, safe shelter, urgent care and opportunities for homeless youth to build a life of self-reliance!
A DAF is like a charitable savings account, giving you the flexibility to recommend how much and how often money is granted to Covenant House and other qualified charities. Use your donation to make an immediate impact or use your fund as a tool for future charitable gifts. Covenant House leads by example to demonstrate that caring relationships are based on love, trust, respect, and honesty. Carlette Mack started her career at Covenant House Alaska as an intern 25 years ago. She is a second-generation Covenant House employee; her mother worked at Covenant House Alaska as a case manager for 13 years.
Anchorage's Covenant House receives $1M federal grant to help foster youth before they age out - Alaska Public Media News
Anchorage's Covenant House receives $1M federal grant to help foster youth before they age out.
Posted: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:57:39 GMT [source]
As a leader in the sector, we advocate so that all youth can have lives free from homelessness and trafficking. Homelessness takes an enormous toll—both physically and mentally—on young people. Each year, thousands of youth experiencing homelessness die on the streets due to illness, assault, or suicide. We offer corporate partners an opportunity to align with the largest organization in the Americas helping children, youth, and young families overcome homelessness.
Make a Transformational Gift
At the same time, we advocate for public policies that address the roots of the crisis, focusing on justice, safety, and opportunity. Sleep Out is your opportunity to spend a night outside and raise critical funds and awareness about the youth homelessness crisis. There are many ways to volunteer with Covenant House at a site near you, virtually, and on your own. Help us raise awareness, funds, and provide support to end youth homelessness for good.
About 50% of all unhoused youth were homeless for the first time in the past year. Covenant House fosters confidence; encouraging young people to believe in themselves and make informed choices for their lives. Bill has a bachelor's in business administration and finance from Taylor University and a master's of social work from Loyola University in Chicago. Bill lives in California with his wife and two children and he is an avid Philadelphia sports fan. Through relentless engagement we foster confidence and encourage them to believe in themselves and make informed choices about their lives.
Crisis care programs and services meet a young person's immediate needs and help to stabilize their situation. Since 1972, we've opened our doors to more than 1.5 million young people experiencing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. Every young person at Covenant House receives a warm bed, food, health and wellness services, a case manager, and, most important of all, unconditional love and absolute respect. For over 50 years, Covenant House New York (CHNY) has been a leader in providing residential services to vulnerable homeless, runaway, and exploited youth.
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