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Georgia plans to launch a new program this summer intended to prevent children from entering the foster care system. Click link to read more: Georgia aims to keep more kids out of foster care with new specialist teams – Youth Today

The Covenant House Georgia will be able to serve more homeless youth thanks to a successful capital campaign that raised $10.1 million — $400,000 more than the initial goal. Click the link to read more: Covenant House Georgia unveils new apartments for homeless youth – SaportaReport

Hundreds of Spelman students protested Thursday after learning they would not be able to live on-campus during the upcoming academic year. Students claim the placement issues have been an ongoing concern for years and it’s why the HBCU undergrads argue the situation is even more unacceptable. Click to read more: Spelman students ‘homeless’ due to

Congress raised the annual Pell Grant limit to $6,895 for the 2022-23 academic year as a part of the 2022 federal budget. That’s the largest increase to the Pell Grant since 2009. Click link to read more: Good news for college students: Pell Grants have gotten a boost (msn.com)

In 2020, more than 6,000 Georgia students experiencing homelessness went missing from schools’ rolls. Nationally, that number is close to 400,000. Click link to read more:  Advocates work to reach ‘missing’ unhoused children in Atlanta (msn.com)

In 2017, Food 4 Lives was born when a group of students from Georgia Tech and Emory University decided to serve people who were experiencing homelessness in Atlanta with food, shelter, resources and education. Before the pandemic, Food 4 Lives would feed the homeless every Saturday. Now, for nearly two years, 150 families rotate the

Over the past couple of years, Mason said space has been the biggest challenge, and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it became financially unfeasible to expand its facility. So, she said, the nonprofit shifted its focus to expanding its programming and being more intentional with its existing space, putting the needs of its youth at

Dominique Marshall moved a lot in her youth. She called many different places “home” over short periods of time when she was 17. She learned at a young age that the public-school staff and liaisons she grew up around weren’t adequately trained to recognize homeless students. Read more at link below: Homeless youth and children

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — On a brisk Friday morning, a small line has gathered outside the Sparrow’s Nest on Prince Avenue. Inside, people are already gearing up to clean the streets as part of a program called A Safe and Clean Athens. Sparrow’s Nest, a Christian ministry serving those in need, sees the benefits of

Winter is coming and approximately 3,000 people in Atlanta are homeless. Athens-based non-profit, The Backpack Project, aims to serve as many of those individuals as possible at their fourth annual Homeless Heroes Day, Friday.  Read more at Backpack Project distributes necessities on Homeless Heroes Day (ajc.com)