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Welcome to COVENANT HOUSE
Covenant House provides shelter and services to homeless and runaway kids. Covenant House's Mission is crisis care - any youth under 21 can receive immediate help 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our doors never close.
We don't wait for kids to come to us. Covenant House Outreach staff in vans, on bikes and on foot cruise the same streets as the kids from late at night til early in the morning. Offering food and hope, our counselors and volunteers reach out to kids where they need help the most.
Announcing the 2007 Candlelight Vigil for Homeless Kids
Light a candle, change a life
Millions of homeless kids are living on the streets. You have the power to make a difference!
Join the movement to bring attention to this crisis:
Host a candlelight vigil on November 15, 2007.
Attend one of the November 15, 2007 vigils organized by Covenant House.
Host a candlelight dinner party in your home.
Light a virtual candle.">
Join the movement to bring attention to this crisis:
Host a candlelight vigil on November 15, 2007.
Attend one of the November 15, 2007 vigils organized by Covenant House.
Host a candlelight dinner party in your home.
Light a virtual candle.">
Candlelight Vigil 2007
- Candlelight Vigil
- Click here to get more information about Candlelight Vigil or to register your vigil now.
Spend 10 minutes to save a kid's life.
Build a lens on Squidoo!
You're invited to help Covenant House provide lifesaving help to homeless kids.
And all it takes is 10 minutes.
How? Simply create an easy-to-build web page about the Books that Have Changed Your Life.
Tolstoy? Martha Stewart? The Dalai Lama?
No matter what books you choose, you'll be generating royalties for Covenant House, every month, forever. And your page will help Covenant House spread the word about our life-changing work to thousands of new friends.
And all it takes is 10 minutes.
How? Simply create an easy-to-build web page about the Books that Have Changed Your Life.
Tolstoy? Martha Stewart? The Dalai Lama?
No matter what books you choose, you'll be generating royalties for Covenant House, every month, forever. And your page will help Covenant House spread the word about our life-changing work to thousands of new friends.
Mike
Our outreach team came across Mike wrapped in a tattered old blanket sitting on the street corner after midnight.
He told us he had been released from the hospital a few days before and he still held the plastic bag they gave him for all his earthly possessions.
Mike was starving. He hadn't eaten since his discharge and his eyes lit up when we offered him sandwiches and juice. He ate two sandwiches and placed a third carefully in his bag. He was afraid to come in the van with us to come to the shelter but we made a connection.
Now that we know he's there, our van staff will look for him when they go out at night and hopefully he will take the big step to trusting us and come back to the safety of our crisis center.
Mike is out there and desperately in need of so much help. We have to keep doing all that we can to help him to trust us. Then maybe he can take the steps towards believing that his life is worth something more than dying anonymously on the streets.
There are all too many kids like Mike on the streets of our cities. Together with people like you, Covenant House is able to seek them out and offer them hope for a better future.
He told us he had been released from the hospital a few days before and he still held the plastic bag they gave him for all his earthly possessions.
Mike was starving. He hadn't eaten since his discharge and his eyes lit up when we offered him sandwiches and juice. He ate two sandwiches and placed a third carefully in his bag. He was afraid to come in the van with us to come to the shelter but we made a connection.
Now that we know he's there, our van staff will look for him when they go out at night and hopefully he will take the big step to trusting us and come back to the safety of our crisis center.
Mike is out there and desperately in need of so much help. We have to keep doing all that we can to help him to trust us. Then maybe he can take the steps towards believing that his life is worth something more than dying anonymously on the streets.
There are all too many kids like Mike on the streets of our cities. Together with people like you, Covenant House is able to seek them out and offer them hope for a better future.
Thank you for your interest in Covenant House
Sadly, this is our 35th Anniversary.
Covenant House is the largest privately funded childcare agency in the United States providing shelter and service to homeless and runaway youth. We were incorporated in New York City in 1972 and have expanded to over a dozen cities in the U.S., Toronto, Vancouver, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua.
We've provided direct services to over one million kids in those years. As long as they need us, we'll be there, but we look for a future where Covenant House is not needed and our young people are valued by their families and communities.
In addition to food, shelter, clothing and crisis care, Covenant House provides a variety of services to homeless kids including health care, education, vocational preparation, drug abuse treatment and prevention programs, legal services, recreation, mother/child programs, transitional living programs, street outreach and aftercare.
Some 70,000 kids are touched by Covenant House programs each year.
Thank you for making a difference in the lives of these great kids.
Covenant House is the largest privately funded childcare agency in the United States providing shelter and service to homeless and runaway youth. We were incorporated in New York City in 1972 and have expanded to over a dozen cities in the U.S., Toronto, Vancouver, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua.
We've provided direct services to over one million kids in those years. As long as they need us, we'll be there, but we look for a future where Covenant House is not needed and our young people are valued by their families and communities.
In addition to food, shelter, clothing and crisis care, Covenant House provides a variety of services to homeless kids including health care, education, vocational preparation, drug abuse treatment and prevention programs, legal services, recreation, mother/child programs, transitional living programs, street outreach and aftercare.
Some 70,000 kids are touched by Covenant House programs each year.
Thank you for making a difference in the lives of these great kids.
Want to learn more about what you can do to help?
- Covenant House
- Covenant House crisis centers provide shelter and other services to homeless and runaway youth in 21 cities in six countries throughout North America and Latin America.
- Covenant House NINELINE
- Covenant House Nineline (1-800-999-9999) is a 24-hour, toll-free crisis hotline which provides crisis intervention, referral and information services to homeless, runaway and other troubled youth and their families throughout the U.S. With a database of more than 30,000 agencies, trained crisis coun
- Join the Sheltering Circle
- Because of caring people like you, Covenant House is able to give clean clothes, hot meals, and a place to sleep to hundreds of desperate homeless kids every night.
By joining our Sheltering Circle - and pledging as little as $7 per month on a credit card - you'll be providing a steady stream of income to help us keep these kids warm and safe - and give them the love and counseling that can so profoundly transform their lives. - Subscribe to our monthly e-letter
- Learn more about our great kids and the obstacles they face with a subscription to our monthly e-letter.
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- Subscribe to Covenant House's Daily Reflections and receive a free inspirational email Monday through Friday. A great way to recharge your batteries in less than a minute.
Want to learn more?
Here's the book on Covenant House.
Covenant House: Journey of a Faith-Based Charity
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