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Outreach

The Covenant House Outreach Program is integral in the agency's efforts to connect with as many street youth as possible. The Covenant House Outreach Program also serves as a point of entry for homeless youth who make the choice to come off the streets and enter a Covenant House programs.
Many youth end up on the wrong path due to circumstances beyond their control, such as family disintegration and crippling poverty. The Outreach Program enables Covenant House to connect with those young people who otherwise would not seek help on their own. The Covenant House Outreach teams establish trusting relationships and offer young people alternatives to their desperate situations.

Traveling by van or on foot, Covenant House outreach workers regularly visit the toughest streets in each city trying to connect with homeless, runaway. The Outreach workers offer on-the-spot assistance with needs such as food and minor medical attention. When these young adults express a desire for additional assistance they are referred to Covenant House Crisis Centers.

Covenant House Outreach staff also responds to calls received by the Covenant House NINELINE, a 24-hour crisis hotline for young people.

Covenant House makes contact with more than 25,000 young people annually through the Outreach Program.
Nineline
Meet Barbara


Q.How did Covenant House help you?

A.Coming here took me off the streets, gave me a bed to sleep in, food to eat, clothes to wear, and people to talk to.


Q.What did Covenant House help you to achieve?

A.I have been able to graduate high school on time. I have also gone to college where I am finishing a bachelor's degree. I look forward to obtaining my master's degree in the near future as well. I have been able to maintain wonderful friendships, and rebuild the lost relationship with my parents.

Q.Today you are a Covenant House volunteer?

A.Giving back to the community the same way help was extended to me has a significant meaning. I want these young men and women to have the opportunity to look back and see that this place has helped them and that they too can live happily ever after.