"Jesse's House is a place where girls come to get help. Someone is always there for them when we need them. No matter why we are here, they don't judge us of our past and they give us a chance to prove who we are and can be
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Cortney* grew up in a loving home. Her parents were divorced and her mother struggled to make ends meet, but she was loved and taken care of. When Cortney was 9, her mother began dating a man who seemed very nice and who provided financially for the family. At age 10, the unimaginable happened and
this same man began sexually abusing Cortney. Cortney was too frightened to tell anyone and this abuse went on for years. At age 14, Cortney finally told a teacher at school what had been happening. Her mother chose to believe her now husband and refused to have him leave the home. Cortney came to Jesse’s House
suffering from depression and issues with self-harm. We provided on site counseling in addition to specialized counseling for survivors of sexual abuse. She stayed in our care for over a year and we watched her transform from a broken child into a more confident young lady with a future planned out for herself. She was able to be placed with a distant paternal aunt and is doing well.
When Jessica* was 8 years old she watched her mother take her father’s life. Her mother went to prison and she was placed with a family member. It was several years before anyone realized that Jessica was living in deplorable conditions; in a camper with no running water or electricity and not attending school. Jessica’s family had a history of drug addiction and she had fallen to drug use as well as a way to escape her reality. When she came to Jesse’s House, she was excited to have a bed for the first time in her life, along with adequate food and clothing. In our care, she was able to get clean, begin taking GED classes and received the intensive counseling she needed to work on healing from the severe trauma she experienced at 8 years old.
Amelia’s* mother left when she was a baby. Her father did his best to raise her but he struggled with his own addictions. When Amelia was 6 she was taken into DFCS (Department of Family and Children’s Services) custody. She was bounced around from foster home to foster home. She eventually ended up running away from an abusive situation. She began living on the streets of Atlanta; homeless with nowhere to go. At 16 she turned herself into DFCS care. She came to us beaten down and broken with only the clothes on her back. We were able to address all of her basic needs first and then move on to her physical and emotional struggles. Amelia went back to school, participated in counseling & began to heal from her past traumas. She was eventually able to be placed in a therapeutic foster home.
"Jesse's House is a place where girls come to get help. Someone is always there for them when we need them. No matter why we are here, they don't judge us of our past and they give us a chance to prove who we are and can be
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