{"id":3629,"date":"2013-11-26T15:06:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T15:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gnof.org\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2013-11-26T15:55:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T15:55:32","slug":"safe-haven-for-homeless-and-at-risk-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/gnof\/safe-haven-for-homeless-and-at-risk-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe Haven for Homeless and At-Risk Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/121992645\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jane Helire is the job developer and life skills instructor at Covenant House, a safe haven for homeless and at-risk youth, located at the edge of the French Quarter. She points to the wall behind her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our employment board, and it\u2019s the males on one side, and the females on other side.\u00a0It has a list of everyone who is employed and who should be job searching and touching base with me, and who\u2019s in class and who I haven\u2019t seen just yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helire, who her students all call Ms. Jane, teaches a range of skills having to do with employment \u2014\u00a0from writing a resume to anger management, to attitude and hygiene. She tells her students, when applying for a job, you have to talk differently, than you do with your friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to get that job you have to code switch, you have to turn that side off, and bring that professional side out. You don\u2019t go in like: \u2018can you tell me if you\u2019re hiring?\u2019 I would tell you no. But, you go in with a smile. \u2018Hi, my name is Jane Helire, can you tell me if you\u2019re hiring?\u2019 You got to put it on,\u201d says Ms. Jane.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Bates eagerly listens to everything Miss Jane tells her. Victoria is 20 years old and has been living at Covenant House for 3 weeks. Bates says:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother and stepdad have drug problems. I had an altercation with my stepfather, and she chose his side over mine. And I didn\u2019t have any family to support me or to go to so I had to leave the home because I felt my life was in danger,\u201d Bates explains.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria heard about Covenant House and, with nowhere else to go, simply walked in the door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have anyone, but they\u2019ve had my back since I been here. They helped me get my ID. They give me a shelter, they feed me, and they tell me the things I need to do to get my life back on track. I have a 3 year old cousin still in the household, and they\u2019re helping me get an attorney so I can get my cousin here with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Jane talked Victoria into going back to school at Xavier University, where she was a sophomore studying to be a pharmacist. But for right now, after taking Miss Jane\u2019s class, Victoria will try to get a job in a pharmacy department, like at a Walgreen\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Bates says, \u201cIt\u2019s been a minute since I had a job and I knew I needed some help in that field so I was happy to have someone here help me learn how to interview and everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Covenant House provides shelter to runaway and at-risk youth, ages 16 to 21, but it offers so much more than that: educational programs, employment, 3 meals a day plus snacks, and childcare coming soon. There\u2019s also a program called Rites of Passage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the youth or individual have a job in school and saving 80% of their money then they can apply to go to R.O.P. which is more independent. They cook their own meals, have their own kitchens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, they prepare to live independently.<\/p>\n<p>Helire says, \u201cWe always tell them to have a plan, and one of the best plans is to follow the program &#8212; which is do what you have to do in Crisis. We don\u2019t ask much, and then make it to R.O.P. And with the life skills they teach them in R.O.P., they\u2019re ready to go back and be independent, and that\u2019s our goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Covenant House has a lot to offer. Physical and mental health services, literacy and GED prep classes, early head start for young mothers, and most importantly, a caring staff who work with each youth individually.<\/p>\n<p>Helire ends the class. \u201cAll right ladies. You are dismissed. Thank you Miss Jane. Be on time tomorrow. See you tomorrow. Take your folders. Use your resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Written and produced by Eve Abrams for the Community IMPACT Series and produced by WWNO in partnership with the Greater New Orleans Foundation.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a title=\"Covenant House New Orleans\" href=\"http:\/\/www.covenanthouseno.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Covenant House here<\/a>, and for youths in crisis, call their nineline hotline 1-800-999-9999. The crisis center doors at Covenant House are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Helire is the job developer and life skills instructor at Covenant House, a safe haven for homeless and at-risk youth, located at the edge of the French Quarter. 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