Overview

Keeping Families Together provides an array of in-home, in-school, and in-community wrap-around services to troubled children and their families, including prevention, aftercare, reunification, and family revitalization.

Camp CHRIS (the camp you can’t get kicked out of) is a nine-week summer day camp for children with emotional and behavioral problems. The children who attend Camp CHRIS are unable to attend other camps due to behavioral challenges. Camp CHRIS is designed to ensure success for children who have experienced failure. It also helps the parents maintain employment without fear for the welfare and safety of their children.

CHRIS Kids operates nine Group Homes for children, ages 6-17, in five metropolitan Atlanta counties. These children have severe emotional and behavioral problems stemming from abuse and neglect, and are usually wards of the State. They come to us with bruised and battered souls; afraid to trust adults; with fear cloaked in anger. They require mental health treatment as well as parenting in order to heal. No more than six children live in each home.

The Independent Living Program (ILP) provides counseling, supervision and life/job skills to young adults ages 17-21. The program is designed to give support to youth who are "aging out" of the foster care or juvenile justice system and are still not prepared to live on their own. Many of the youth come from treatment programs, detention or group homes. The Rainbow Program was opened in 2000 to provide a safe shelter and life/job skills to homeless and sexual minority youth, ages 17 - 21. In 2003, ILP and Rainbow partnered to provide housing in apartments, supervision, vocational and educational counseling and life skill training. ILP has 16 beds and Rainbow has 6 beds.

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