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Home Team Update
Covenant House’s Home Team is looking forward to an incredible year in 2012. The Home Team has more participants, has raised more money, and is involved in more endurance events than ever before! As each team member will cross the finish line this year, they are proving to homeless youth that they too can cross their finish line.
Former Covenant House New York Resident Featured in the New York Time’s “Neediest Cases”
De Andre Hill, 19, is the first to admit it: He grew up way too soon.
He was raised in Greensboro, N.C., and spent his teenage years looking after three half-sisters, preparing dinners of burger patties and spaghetti for them, insisting they do their homework and comforting them when they cried themselves to sleep.
VIDEO: Aviva partners with Covenant House to get homeless youth off the street
In November Aviva USA and Covenant House announced a partnership that will impact the lives of thousands of youth across America. Aviva USA’s two-year sponsorship of our mission represents one of the largest individual funding commitments to Covenant House in our 40-year history.
NY Times Op-Ed Joins Call To Pull Backpage.com
Recently Covenant House President Kevin Ryan wrote a blog citing evidence that pimps and traffickers are turning to the internet in their efforts to sell young, vulnerable children online.
"Porgy and Bess" and the Chance for Change
Kevin discusses "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" and how we can help others to believe in themselves.
Building Back Trust Day By Day
When 18-year-old Denise made the decision to end her life by walking with her eyes closed onto a very busy interstate – an 18-wheeler miraculously missing her by inches – she felt like the most all-alone-kid in the world. "No one cared if I lived or died, and neither did I," she says.
Read MoreBrian Cashman Calls for Support of Our Covenant House Kids
