Community Partnership


Our Partners: Redefining What a Homeless Shelter Means


Collaboration is crucial to CHA’s mission of ending youth homelessness. Inside our building is a community within a community, where lives are changed with help from our on-site partners who provide healthcare, high school classes, cultural workshops, GED preparation, job readiness, drug and alcohol abuse counseling, suicide prevention, mental health services and life skills training. All our partners have space at our Youth Engagement Center (YEC), so no youth falls through the cracks as they get counseling, earn their educations or follow up on services. Our partners include:


Community Partner - Anchorage Community Mental Health Services, Inc.Community Partner - Anchorage School DistrictCommunity Partner - Cook Inlet Tribal CouncilCommunity Partner - Nine Star Education & Employment ServicesCommunity Partner - Southcentral FoundationCommunity Partner - Volunteers of AmericaCommunity Partner - Cook Inlet Housing AuthorityCommunity Partner - The Ciri Foundation

Anti-Sex Trafficking Partners


28 percent of homeless youth in Anchorage are victims of human trafficking. We work with the following agencies to bring help and hope to these young survivors of the most heinous crime—sex trafficking:


Anti-Sex Trafficking Partner - Alaska Native Justice CenterAnti-Sex Trafficking Partner - Abused Women's Aide in CrisisAnti-Sex Trafficking Partner - Standing Together Against RapeAnti-Sex Trafficking Partner - Federal Bureau of Investigation