Take Action for Homeless Youth this November 

Over 4 million young people experience a form of homelessness each year. Every November, Covenant House brings together our global community to confront this crisis head-on.   

Change starts by facing the truth about youth homelessness: If we do nothing, youth homelessness will triple over the next 10 years. We cannot let that happen; the cost of doing nothing is too high. You can join our community, take action, and help end youth homelessness.   

Some great ways to take action:  

1. Take the Action Pledge. 
   We can halve youth homelessness over the next 10 years with your help. Be a part of the movement to end youth homelessness.  

2. Rally with us.    
   Don’t stand by — participate. Pick up a marker, grab a sign, demand housing, and demand change alongside ralliers in Times Square. Backed by powerful performances and youth-led moments, our rally will challenge you to act boldly, urgently, and with purpose.  

3. Sleep Out.    
   Give up your bed for one night to raise funds and awareness and ensure that youth facing homelessness can sleep safely at Covenant House.  

You can also find and connect with your local Covenant House site to see what they might be doing right in your home town! And if you’re a corporate team or a group, there are a number of other opportunities to take part in that you can read about here.  

We're at a tipping point. If we do nothing, our studies show, the homeless youth population will triple in the next 10 years. Youth homelessness sits at the crossroads of poverty, housing affordability and availability, and mental health. On our current course, these problems will get worse over the next 10 years, not better. All of them lead to exponential growth of youth homelessness.  

Covenant House provides young people facing homelessness with safe housing and wraparound services that help them heal from the trauma and instability of homelessness. Our services respond to their needs for mental health support, education, career training, medical care, and, most importantly, a safe, stable, place where they can begin to advance their life plans.  

To truly leave homelessness behind, young people need housing they can actually afford. Covenant House is increasingly seeking to make affordable-for-youth housing available to young people exiting homelessness. Here, youth can live into their independence and still rely on our services as they need them, all while they work toward their best future.  

There are proven solutions to reduce and end youth homelessness as we know it today, and Covenant House is determined to advance them. Because no young person should have to face homelessness.  

You can be a part of the movement that ends youth homelessness, and it can all start with what you do this November.