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Welcome and thank you for your interest in Covenant House Missouri!

Our organization empowers homeless, runaway and at-risk youth to live independently and become contributing members of the community. With open doors and open hearts we were able to provide 3518 young people with services in FY 2007.

As the largest privately funded agency in the Americas, we provide a full suite of services designed to educate, train, mentor and support homeless teens. As you browse our website you will see more detailed explanations of our Missouri site history, programs and how you can become more involved. Please keep in mind while visiting our site that these needs are real. The kids are real. Even though most people never see them, they are out there. And most of all these youth are looking for caring adults who support them in making solid choices for their future.

Suzanne Wagener
Executive Director

In Lamar's own words...

I had a bad rep. with different schools. No one wanted to let me come to the school. So here I am. This young adult with no education. I didn’t have a sense of what I was going to do with myself. Constantly putting myself down because I didn’t take advantage of the past opportunities I had. I was stuck with no solution. Until one day I went to the grocery store and saw an old friend I use to get in trouble with at my past high school. I asked her how she was doing and what she's been doing since we both were put out of school around the same time.
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5.8.08|St. Louis Post Dispatch wrote a lovely article on one of the Covenant House Missouri youth. The article is titled "Cinderella prom for a homeless teen" . [More...]

5.7.08| Focus St. Louis honored Covenant House Missouri along with 20 other honorees as What’s Right With The Region. Covenant House Missouri along with 3 additional honorees won specifically for Promoting Stronger Communities. [More...]

5.1.08 | Covenant House Missouri invites everyone to join St. Louis Archbishop- The Most Reverend Raymond Burke, St. Louis City Mayor Francis Slay, and Covenant House International President - Sister Patricia Cruise on June 5, 2008 for the grand opening of our Center for Youth. [More...]

5.8.08 | Free Upcoming Advocacy and Discussion Events [More...]

4.30.08| It’s been a long time coming, but WE’VE MADE IT!!! The renovations to the Center for Youth building are complete and the doors are open. [More...]

Ongoing| Dear friends...

Covenant House currently has two in-house job training programs. One, Garden Rangers which utilizes the skills of our students to facilitate environmental restoration through community cleanup. The second, Covenant Cleaning is an internal janitorial service for our current facilities. At this time, we are initiating a new phase in our Job Training Program, in which we hope you can be a part. [More...]

Volunteer | How to Help

Covenant House is the largest privately funded nonprofit agency in North and Central America providing shelter and other services to homeless, runaway and throwaway youth.

24% of CHMO youth have been forced out their homes by parents or other adults.