Project Promise
Bringing hope to homeless children through collaborative services and advocacy
% of Georgia's
Homeless Employed
Georgia Children Experience Homelessness Each Year
Georgia Children
Living in Poverty
Bringing Hope to Homeless Children
Solutions to child and family homelessness are a core value and priority of Georgia Alliance to End Homelessness. Thus comes the design and development of “Project Promise”. We often take for granted the “little extras” that we are able to offer our children – summer camp, a music instrument, career explorations, talent lessons, extracurricular activities, etc. simply do not exist for children experiencing housing insecurity.
GAEH’s Project Promise is hoping to change this reality for hundreds of children across Georgia. With your help we can give today’s homeless youth opportunities they will cherish for a lifetime. By donating on the Georgia Alliance to End Homelessness website or calling at (770) 575-5785, you can make a contribution that will change the life of a homeless child.
Ending Child Homelessness
The Georgia Campaign to End Child Homelessness seeks to galvanize the will necessary to end this crisis. Because it is unacceptable for any child to be homeless for even one night, the Georgia Campaign to End Child Homelessness is a call to action with the goals of increasing public awareness, informing state and local policies, and improving programs and services to better address the needs of homeless children and families. The Georgia Campaign is an initiative of the Campaign to End Child Homelessness at The National Center on Family Homelessness in partnership with the Georgia Alliance to End Homelessness.
Reality for Homeless Children
- More than 59,000 children experience homelessness each year in Georgia.
- Georgia has more homeless children in rural areas than metropolitan centers.
- Children experiencing homelessness are sick four times more often than other children. They are also significantly more likely to develop a range of chronic health issues should they survive to adulthood.
- Homeless children go hungry at twice the rate of other children.
- Children experiencing homelessness are four times more likely to show delayed development and twice as likely to have learning disabilities.
- Children who are homeless experience a number of traumatic stressors that can lead to educational and developmental challenges.
Ending child homelessness in Georgia is urgent and possible.
What Georgia's Legislature and State Government Can Do
Ending child homelessness in Georgia is urgent and possible. In March 2011, the Georgia Campaign released the Georgia Plan to End Child Homelessness.
The following recommendations from the Georgia Plan lay out the path towards preventing and ending child and family homelessness throughout the state:
- Expand the supply of affordable housing units and include a priority for homeless families with children, survivors of domestic violence, and homeless youth through the State Housing Trust Fund and other potential resources.
- Establish a committee in the Georgia General Assembly to address the state’s budget and investment in homelessness as well as applicable laws, standards of care, and other issues that impact children, youth, and families who are homeless.
- Prioritize homeless families in all affordable housing programs including waiting lists for Section 8.
- Provide dedicated state funding so that all homeless students have access to education and succeed in school. Prioritize access to early childhood education and public pre-school programs for children who are homeless.
- Restore state funding for the statewide homeless coalition to support and build the work of local coalitions that are serving families, youth, and individuals who are homeless across Georgia.
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