City House Emergency Shelter

 How we got started 

 In the late 1980s, two Plano school teachers noticed some of their students arriving at
 school with all their belongings in trash bags.  The students would store the trash bags in
 their lockers during the day and take the bags with them when they left school at the
 end of the day.  Upon investigation, the teachers discovered these students were
 homeless. 

 ‘Not in this community!’ 

 The teachers’ reaction was ‘not in this community!’  The thought of homeless youth was
 intolerable to these teachers.  They immediately began working on ways to provide a safe
 shelter to these homeless teens.   The community rallied to the cause and the first
 facility opened in 1989 - a 6 bed shelter in a house owned by the First Baptist Church. 
 That was the birth of City House. 

 City House, Inc.

 City House, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded to address the needs of

 homeless children in Collin County.  City House provides intervention services to children

 and youth in crisis.

 Today our new shelter serves new born to 17 year olds in Collin
 County and the surrounding counties of Dallas, Tarrant, Kaufman, Denton and Rockwall.   

 Besides a home-like atmosphere and a warm bed to sleep in, City House residents
 receive:

• Meals

• Clothing

• Medical care

• Case management

• Counseling

• Continuation of their education in local schools

• Legal services, when needed

  Chelsea Stanford, a fifth grader from Plano published an exciting book Runaway Hotel  

 which deals with the pangs of growing up that touch everyone. Take a minute to visit

 the full details at http://www.runawayhotel.com/index