What We Do

Covenant House Georgia (CHGA) is a part of Covenant House which is the largest privately funded childcare agency in the United States providing shelter and service to homeless and runaway youth. The support of CHGA comes 57 percent from the parent organization and 43 percent from the local community.

CHGA was brought to Georgia in 2000 to help young people suffering from homelessness, sexual exploitation, involved in drug-dealing, theft and other anti-social activities. Since opening almost 10,000 youth received support from CHGA. Currently CHGA serves over 2,000 homeless and at-risk youth per year. In FY 2008 the organization served 2,117 youth. A substantial number of these youth have left foster care or institutional placements at age 18 with little provision for housing, education or employment and few skills to support themselves.

Tied to CHGA’s comprehensive continuum of emergency intervention and support are vocational services which transition into a supportive housing program launched in 2007. This integrated approach assists youth in addressing the two major barriers to self-sufficiency – homelessness and joblessness. CHGA seeks to provide chronically homeless youth with a vocational foundation and marketable skill-set needed to increase their chances of progressing into an independent and productive adulthood while preventing them from succumbing to a life of crime and social withdrawal.

Since opening the Community Service Center on Broad Street in August 2000 almost 10,000 young people have been served. Four essential programs constitute comprehensive nature of Covenant House Georgia service to the homeless and at-risk youth:

• Community Service Center
• Crisis Shelter
• Rights of Passage Supportive Housing
• Street Outreach