Welcome to CHRIS Kids, Inc.!

Because every child deserves hope…and a home.

For more than twenty-five years, CHRIS Kids has delivered a broad continuum of critical services to children, youth and families allowing them to reach their natural potential for happiness, health and success. CHRIS Kids offers free residential and summer programs to homeless children and youth and affordable mental health and substance abuse counseling to local families. Please click one of the links below to learn more about how you can make a difference.

Values: Creativity, Honor, Respect, Integrity, Safety

CHRIS Counseling Center

The CHRIS Counseling Center delivers affordable, sliding-scale mental health and substance abuse services to youth and families who need financial assistance, ensuring that those with little or no mental health insurance have access to care….(read more).

Make a Referral to the Counseling Center

CHRIS Kids Independent Living/Rainbow Programs

The CHRIS Kids Independent Living/Rainbow program provides homes, academic assistance and other services to homeless and runaway youth, as well as those youth aging out of the foster care system, without the resources to make a successful transition to adulthood….(read more).

CHRIS Kids Group Homes

CHRIS Kids operates nine group homes throughout Atlanta for youth with an average of nine-ten failed foster care placements who also cannot return to their families of origin. Six youth live per house in a neighborhood setting and attend mainstream public schools … (read more).

Keeping Families Together

CHRIS Kids Keeping Families together is our core prevention strategy, providing families in crisis with assessment, treatment, and a broad-range of core human needs (food, shelter, essential amenities) before the intervention of the over-burdened juvenile justice, mental health care and child welfare systems…(read more).

Camp CHRIS

Camp CHRIS is a nine-week long summer campaign experience for youth with behavioral challenges. Often called the “camp you can’t get kicked out of”, Camp CHRIS is the only camping experience in the Georgia with a no-eject policy…(read more).

CHRIS Kids is accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children and is a member of the Child Welfare League of America. For more information on CHRIS Kids, including financial information, visit Guidestar, or click here to download the latest Form 990.

CHRIS Kids in the News

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3109 Clairmont Road NE Suite B
Atlanta, Georgia 30329
(404) 486-9034

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