Covenant House Pennsylvania (CHPA), one of the most recent affiliates of Covenant House, was established in Philadelphia in 1999. Services began with a Community Outreach Center that worked predominately with street youth. Young people were offered a place to eat, do laundry and get referrals for more complex needs such as housing and medical care. Immediately it became obvious that we needed to expand services due to the large number of homeless youth who came to our doors with no place to go.

Today we have grown to a diverse agency that provides a full continuum of services to meet the complex needs of homeless and runaway youth. These include Street Outreach, a 51-bed Crisis Center transitional living programs Rights of Passage (ROP) and Rights of Passage Apartment Living (ROPAL) and Community Service Center (CSC).

2006 Annual Report