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Causes: Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services
Mission: Covenant House builds a bridge to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of trafficking through unconditional love, absolute respect, and relentless support. In New Orleans, Covenant House’s doors have been open 24/7 since 1986, touching the lives of over 30,000 youth ever since. Beyond shelter, Covenant House offers transitional housing, educational and vocational services, health care, and other services to empower youth to rise and overcome adversity, today and in the future.
Target demographics: youth facing homelessness and trafficking
Geographic areas served: New Orleans
Programs: Shelter and crisis care and mother/child avg. Daily census - 65the shelter and crisis care program provides crisis care, shelter, food, clothing, case management, childcare, counseling, legal advice, life skills, job coaching, training and placement to abandoned, at-risk and runaway youths. Net fmv of contributed services totaled $0 for fy17. Total unaccompanied youth served during fy17 - 323; average daily census - 51 or 18,615 nights of care. Total mother and children served during fy17 - 82; average daily census - 14 or 5,110 nights of care. Total crisis center youth and families served during fy17 405; average daily census - 65 or 23,725 nights of care.
rights of passage/ in-school avg. Daily census - 66rights of passage (rop) provides transitional living and supportive housing services to youths, including individual counsel health services, assistance with completing their education, finding jobs and permanent housing (ropal). Net fmv of contributed services totaled $61,407 during fy17. Total unaccompanied rop youth served during fy17 - 67; average daily census - 26 or 9,490 nights of care. Total rop mother and children served during fy17 - 8; average daily census - 7 or 2,555 nights of care. Total unaccompanied ropal youth served during fy17 - 15; avg daily census - 15 or 5,475 nights of care. Total ropal mother and children served during fy17 - 26; avg daily census - 18 or 6,570 nights of care. Grant total rop/ropal youth and families served 115; avg daily census - 66 or 24,090 nights of care.
community service center avg. Daily census - 28the community service center provides comprehensive services to former covenant house youth, and other youths in the community who need support to maintain themselves in stable living situations. Within this program, the organization also provided rapid re-housing assistance to 50 youth and families (with an average daily census 28 or 10,220 nights of care), counseling and intervention services, and work-related instruction and experience through the white dove landscape program. The organization's partners in service include tulane medical center adolescent drop-in clinic, catholic charities archdiocese of new orleans head start program, and department of justice, office for victims of crime combating human trafficking sub-recipients loyola university, eden house, new orleans family justice center and catholic charities archdiocese of new orleans. Net fmv of contributed services totaled $501,565 during fy17. The organization served 1,564 at-risk individuals and children of the community, including 2,337 health visits during fy17.