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Covenant House Michigan
2959 Martin Luther King Jr
Detroit, MI 48208
(313) 463-2000
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CHM logo music written and recorded by Joe Smith.
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Covenant House International
Covenant House is the largest privately-funded childcare agency in the United States providing shelter and service to homeless and runaway youth. It was incorporated in New York City in 1972 and has since expanded in the United States to Anchorage, Atlanta, Atlantic City, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark, New Orleans, Oakland, Orlando, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Washington, D.C.
Outside the United States thousands of youth rely on our services in Toronto, Vancouver, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua.
Click here to read about Sister Patricia Cruise, President of Covenant House International.
Statistics
Covenant House provided residential and non-residential services to over 76,000 youth last year. Over 14,500 young people came into Covenant House Crisis Shelters and Rights of Passage Programs. Another 27,000 received help in Community Service Centers or in aftercare and prevention services. Our outreach workers served an additional 35,000 youth on the street.
Finally, the Covenant House Nineline (1-800-999-9999) received 51,000 crisis calls from youngsters all over the United States who needed immediate help and had nowhere else to turn.
Visit our parent site at www.covenanthouse.org (allow pop-ups)
