The Center for Children and Young Adults

HELP CCYA CHILDREN & 24/7 ESSENTIAL WORKERS.

The Center for Children and Young Adults (CCYA) is a local youth "home" with 42 beds where children who have been abused, neglected or abandoned live because they have no family or foster family to care for them.  Some children "live" at CCYA for 3 to 4 years.

Join us in helping these children.  Shelter-in-place has increased the children’s Food & Supervision Needs and our Essential Workers who are caring for these children 24/7 need our help.    
 
Please donate to CCYA’s COVID-19 GO FUND ME to help CCYA’s children & 24/7 Essential Workers (click link below).

Donations can be made in honor of special occasions or just as a gesture of friendship for someone you admire.

GO FUND ME donations will pay for pandemic increases in FOOD, SUPERVISION & VITAL SERVICES; specifically, there are no more free lunch programs and our staff now provide homeschooling instruction.  Also, therapists report a rise in youth depression, anxiety & panic disorder.  We are responding with more engagement & planned activities to help youth safely shelter-in-place. Technology needs have also increased to support online learning & virtual services like telemedicine & therapy appointments, DFCS case management, sibling Skype visits, and Title I tutoring.

Please donate, share on Facebook and ask friends and loved ones to help too.

             With humble appreciation,

               C C Y A ’ s  C h i l d r e n  &  C a r e giv e r s

                      CCYA is “home” to more than 100 children each year.
                         Youth come to CCYA because their caregivers are
           unavailable, unable, unsafe or unwilling to care for their children.

Atlanta Insurance Ministries is raising money to benefit The Center for Children and Young Adults!

The ask is simple:
1) WALK / RUN / BIKE/SWIM - 5 KM (respecting social distancing)

2) DONATE  AT LEAST $5 TO CCYA

3) NOMINATE 5 PEOPLE TO DO THE SAME. 


WHY?
As COVID-19 continues to have an impact on society along with a call for racial reconciliation in our world, Atlanta Insurance Ministries is taking action through our partnership with CCYA. 

AIM stands for all people at all times to share the love and grace of God. In such a time as this, AIM is asking it's community to be the hands and feet of Jesus to make a difference in the lives of our young adult friends and neighbors. 

Your health and safety is of utmost importance so please only do this by yourself, social distancing, and if you're feeling healthy enough to do so.

WHO?
The Center for Children & Young Adults provides a home for youth who have been abused, neglected, and/or abandoned by their caregivers. Their three-building campus offers four residential programs in a dormitory setting for up to 42 youth at one time in need of shelter, treatment, care and guidance.

http://ccyakids.org/

Your funds will help provide for much needed school and living supplies for the students, including computers, cleaning supplies, much needed quarantine food and more!

Please  join me in making a difference! I'm raising money for children who call The Center for Children and Young Adults, Inc. (CCYA) "home," and any donation will help make an impact. Thanks in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to me.

BECAUSE EVERY CHILD DESERVES A SAFE PLACE TO SLEEP...AND HOPE!

It seems like the most fundamental things for a child…things we so frequently take for granted…a safe, warm place to sleep..three meals a day...a hot shower...clean clothes. 

Imagine you’re a child (age 12-19), you’ve suffered abuse, neglect, abandonment, and/or exploitation.  Your caregiver is UNAVAILABLE (deceased, incarcerated); UNABLE (homeless, suffer addiction and/or mental illness); UNSAFE (abusive, neglectful); or UNWILLING to care for you. 

The Center for Children & Young Adults is “home” to more than 100 children each year.  Some youth live at CCYA for a few weeks, others a few months, and many for several years.  Children living at CCYA receive exemplary care by a professional staff, who work 24/7, to make sure each child is fed, clothed, counseled, in school, tutored and safe.

The children who live at CCYA need your help for their BASIC NEEDS; food, utilities and fuel for the old vehicles that take them to and from school, after school activities and even doctors appointments.

The total annual cost for CCYA shelter home utilities is $158,000 ($790,000 over the next 5 years):

            Gas = $11,000

            Electric = $46,000

            Water = $19,000

            Groceries = $65,000

            Transportation = $17,000

 

What YOUR Donation provides:

            Electricity - $25,000  funds 200 days of water for bathing, cooking, drinking, laundry & more

            Water - $10,000 funds 192 days of water for bathing, cooking, drinking, laundry & more

            Gas - $5,000 funds 167 days of gas for hot water, heat, cafeteria stove & more

            Groceries - $2,500 funds 14 days of groceries ($4.25/youth per day)

            Transportation - $1,500 funds 32 days of fuel for transporting youth in CCYA vehicles to doctor, dentist, social services & more

            Shelter Power - $1,000 funds 8 days of electricity for lights, HVAC, walk-in cafeteria refrigerator/freezer & more

            Showers - $500 funds 7 days of showers (gas, heat + water)

            School Transportation - $250 funds 5 weekdays of fuel to transport youth to and from school & extracurricular activities

            Meals for a Day  funds 1 day of meals for 23 youth (groceries @ $4.25/youth per day)

Youth with Dallas (animal-assisted therapy)

CCYA operates 24/7, 365 days a year, providing homeless kids with a safe home every day of the year, including the holidays, for more than 36 years, for over 7,600 kids.  Kids who with a safe place to sleep…and hope for a better future…go on to finish high school, get a GED, go to college or technical school…who find that they can then make the world a better place.

PLEASE…help us help these kids by keeping the lights on….providing warm showers… hot meals… nutritious snacks…transportation to school, doctor appointments, and jobs, BUT most of all, give these kids the gift of HOPE!!