The Covering House

Fund our Youth's Summer Educational and Experiential Learning Outings

We are gearing up for an exciting summer that includes educational and experiential learning outings for our youth! A balance of therapy, education, and experiential learning are essential to healing our youth mentally, physically, and emotionally. You are investing in their healing through the summer experience.

Some activities are just for fun and reimbursing childhood, such as** Six Flags, **the Butterfly House, and Adventure Park. Other activities like our Holocaust study will include a trip to the Holocaust Museum, a cultural meal, and week-long immersion study.

Our youth will visit Jefferson City where the State Penitentiary Tour, Governor's Mansion, Supreme Court Visit, Cole County Historical Society, and more are on the agenda. We will also take a trip to Hannibal, learning about Mark Twain and riverboat cruises.

Our city and state offer so many exciting activities, and we have days planned to incorporate as many as possible.

Your Give STL Day donations will go directly toward the** $9,600** needed to fund our youth's summer experience. Will you help us provide a summer of enrichment for them?

Programs include Residential, Community-Based Services (CBS), and Reducing the Risk.

The Level III Youth Residential Facility provides 24/7 residential care to minors for a period of 12-15 months. Residential services include individual and group therapy, specialized therapy (equine and horticultural), expressive arts, a full in-house education program, nutrition, recreation, experiential learning, and sensory integration. The residential home is staffed by licensed therapists, degreed educators, and trauma-informed trained Youth Development Specialists (YDS).

Community-Based Services (CBS) provides intensive therapy and case management to clients in their homes when the biological and foster families are stable and intensive residential care is not required. CBS also provides aftercare to clients graduating from our residential program who need ongoing stability services.

Reducing the Risk is our prevention and early intervention program. The curriculum is designed to educate students/faculty/parents on red flags, protective factors and recovery services specific to sex trafficking.

Our COVER Care® program which encompasses the above programs is currently in the process of being licensed to sell and distribute the model.

The population served at The Covering House (TCH) residential home are youth aged 12-17, who have experienced sex trafficking or sexual exploitation.

Since beginning services in 2013, TCH has served over 190 youth and reached more than 7,900 with the Reducing the Risk prevention and early intervention awareness program in schools. In 2020-2022, TCH served an average of 24 youth each year. In 2020-2021, 70% of the youth served by TCH were ethnic minorities [51% identified as black, 19% as white (non-Hispanic/Latinx), 17% multi-racial/multi-ethnic, 2% as Hispanic/Latinx, and 11% unspecified]. Sex trafficking knows no demographic boundaries. However, those who live in poverty are at a higher risk. Traffickers look for unmet needs in potential victims (lack of money, basic needs, love, etc.).

TCH clients are primarily from Missouri with most from the greater St. Louis area. TCH has served clients from other states and has contracts with the children's divisions of Missouri, Iowa, and Indiana. TCH has had one international client who was brought into the U.S. for sex trafficking.