Gwinnett Children's Shelter, Inc.

Home of Hope at Gwinnett Children's Shelter is addressing the growing homeless population with a viable SOLUTION to the issue.
We take our guests from homeless to hopeful and into a home of their own.

Home of Hope at Gwinnett Children's Shelter has a two generational approach. First, we keep our children in a safe, home-like environment. Each child has a Child Advocate here who is the liaison to the school and mom. Her goal is to see each child's needs are met and they are happy and free to dream of all the things children should dream of.

Each young mom in our program has a customized life plan done with her, and for her, designed to see her to independent living. Her success is our success.

Replacing homelessness with independence is a great return on investment.

Home of Hope at Gwinnett Children's Shelter has a proven track record since beginning this business model in June of 2014. We have a team of leadership and professionals who rally around each family to help them reach their goals. We have a 45 acre campus (lien free) with sports fields and play areas. We have walking trails and a fishing deck over the creek. Each of our buildings gives us the capacity to house as many as 22 families at a time. We have a commercial kitchen and cafeteria where we provide 3 meals per day and 3 snacks per day. Our Executive Team consists of our Executive Director, Director of Operations/Social Worker and our Director of Finance. Each case is managed by our Director of Operations, Case Manager and each child's case is managed by our Child Advocate. We have full time house staff known as Residential Advisers and we have overnight awake staff. We operate 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Now in 2022, we have clarified our strategic priorities for moving forward through 2025:

Grow our programs to respond to the needs of homeless children and their mothers.
With our current facility and programming scope, we now have the opportunity to help at least 22 families every month work toward independent living to see their American dream come true. In 7 years time, starting with just 5 family guests, we have graduated over 100 families out of homelessness. With our approach now proven, we can guide 350 more families to independence within the next five years.
Grow individual, corporate, and philanthropic support for sustained change.
Home of Hope at GCS has embraced the truth that it takes corporate, civic, religious and private communities to help grow and sustain our mission. We are now working to grow a culture of givers who understand that replacing homelessness with independence, is a great return on investment.