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Exciting Event: Back to School Brews – August 17th, 2024

By Mel Light | July 15, 2024

Our Young Professional Advisory Committee presents their annual event, Back to School Brews! Tickets to the event are $40 and will include all-you-can-drink select brews and wines. Purchase tickets by donating on the event page and calling out the total tickets purchased in the comments. Other Donation Activities: Raffles for a Yeti Cooler, Braves Tickets,…

Gearing Up for our Summer STEAM Academy!

By Mel Light | July 7, 2024

Our Summer STEAM Academy kicked off this month! STEAM learning will encourage our students to hone their observation skills, find patterns, analyze results, and predict outcomes, all through fun experiments and field trips. Introducing these opportunities to our kiddos instills essential critical thinking skills and helps them become better problem solvers! Catch photos of this…

KBP Brands Does It Again!

By Mel Light | July 7, 2024

Our friends at KBP Brands had another successful fundraiser selling $1 coupon books at local KBP-owned KFCs! Their 2024 Spring fundraiser raised over $70,000, which can fully fund our Toddler 2 classroom for one month AND provide 20 families with electricity, water, gas, and other utilities for one year! Over the last 12 years, KBP…

Playful Progress with Play Therapy!

By Mel Light | July 7, 2024

“I believe all children have success sitting inside of them and I want to support them in tapping into who they are.” — Morgan “Everyone can benefit from therapy no matter their background or situation.” — Rebecca Our play therapy program plays an essential role in helping our students recover from homelessness. Our program emphasizes…

Honoring Our Moms

Honoring our Moms

By Mel Light | May 31, 2024

Every year, we host our Mother’s Day Luncheon to treat our amazing moms and let them know how celebrated they are! This year’s event was hosted by Weston Cox of the Celebratory Story. The Celebratory Story also sponsored the event with $5,000! Wow! See our list of amazing event features below! Special Gifts for Moms…

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Standing on Tippi Toes

By Mel Light | May 30, 2024

  Weekly Dance Classes with the Kiddos Since January, we’ve been offering weekly dance lessons in partnership with Tippi Toes East Atlanta, including baby ballet and preschool ballet, tap, and jazz classes. These dance classes for kids create a lively and inclusive space across the Additionally, these dance classes have been a perfect addition to…

Atlanta Childrens Shelter 2016 hires

Atlanta Organization Focused on Families Facing Homelessness Launches New Strategic Plan, Name

By Mel Light | September 11, 2017

Annual Legacy Builders Celebration event showcased  vision and four-year plan for the local organization  ATLANTA (May 9, 2024) – Atlanta Children’s Shelter announced its new Strategic Plan for FY2024-FY2028, along with a name change to the Atlanta Children’s Day Shelter, as part of its new brand at its annual Legacy Builder Celebration event last night. The event,…

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