At Our House, we provide a pathway to stability and independence for families experiencing homelessness through access to health care, early childhood education, housing, and employment. Our interrelated programs address the root causes of homelessness and ensure every family that leaves Our House has the tools needed to achieve lasting self-sufficiency.
To provide transformative care to end the cycle of homelessness for families.
A self-sufficient and healthy family for all.
Our House opened its doors in March 1988 to offer reliable, free childcare to metro Atlanta families experiencing homelessness. The founders, a group of local community volunteers along with Reverend Joanna Adams, took notice that families experiencing homelessness were required to leave emergency shelters early every morning—despite the weather conditions, despite the health status of all family members, and regardless of whether or not they had anywhere to go. The parents of these families, mostly single mothers, were given a relatively short amount of time to secure both employment and other housing before being required to permanently leave their shelters. Moved by this hardship, the founders realized that without reliable childcare, these parents were trapped in the cycle of unemployment, poverty, and homelessness.
Our House founders also understood that to effectively combat homelessness, programs and services had to address the root causes of homelessness: lack of child care, lack of education, and lack of work skills among parents experiencing homelessness.
Our House grew to meet these needs by offering year-round, free childcare; comprehensive support services for families; and a credential-earning job-training program.
Genesis opened its doors in 1994 in a facility provided by The Temple and provided services there for ten years. In 2004, recognizing the need to expand its capacity, Genesis relocated to the shelter’s current site at 173 Boulevard, a 76-bed facility with the daily capacity to serve 18 infants and their families. In 20 years of operations, Genesis provided life-transforming services to more than 3,000 people.
In 2014, Our House and Genesis Shelter merged to become one organization, serving families experiencing homelessness at two sites under the name and executive leadership of Our House. As a unified organization, we carry the legacy of an exceptional early childhood education center and emergency shelter.
CAPN was founded by Nurse Practitioners in 1998 as a free healthcare clinic to serve women and children experiencing homelessness. CAPN has always been on the forefront of finding innovative solutions to meet the unique healthcare needs of families experiencing homelessness. From the beginning, CAPN’s founders realized there were many barriers that impeded those experiencing homelessness from accessing high-quality healthcare, and they set out to be different. After successfully establishing a model to provide free healthcare services to women and children living in shelters, CAPN expanded its mission to include providing care for all those in our community who were medically underserved.
CAPN’s core principles include promoting healthy independence through care that is delivered with compassion and dignity. Strengthening the lives of those who have been systematically excluded is key to rebuilding communities and ending the cycle of poverty and homelessness. In July 2022 CAPN, now Our House Health, was fully integrated with Our House and will continue to provide the same nurse led essential healthcare services for more than 3,000 children and adults each year.
President & CEO
Chief Development Officer
Diane Douglass brings over 20 years of fundraising, sales and marketing experience to Our House and has a demonstrated record of success in the areas of revenue generation and the recruitment and cultivation of productive fundraising boards and staff. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration. Diane came to Our House from Chicago, where she was the VP for Institutional Advancement at Black Ensemble Theater.
Chief Impact Officer
Chief Clinical Officer
Tyreesha Hubbard, DNP, CPNP-PC, is a board-certified pediatric nurse practitioner and clinical leader. Her interests include preventive health, health equity, child advocacy, and mental wellbeing. Her doctoral research focused on building resilience in children and adolescents. She has experience in nursing leadership, academics, and mentoring future healthcare providers in Georgia. Passionate about supporting vulnerable communities, she aims to help families achieve healthy independence. Tyreesha earned her BSN at Kennesaw State University and her DNP at Augusta University.
Chief Financial Officer
Morris, Manning & Martin LLP
CPC Advisors
Self Employed
MedShare International
Community Volunteer
HOME Real Estate
Dorsey Alston
Optum
Quartermoore: Five Paces Ventures
Ernst & Young
Delta Airlines
UPS
CNN
Spectrum News 1
Troutman Pepper
Optum
Boys & Girls Club of America
Retired, JP Morgan
Aaron’s
Windham Brannon
Piedmont Office Realty Trust
Spectrum Enterprise
Piedmont Atlanta Physicians
Morris, Manning & Martin LLP Co-Chair
Co-Chair
Honorary Co-Chair
Honorary Co-Chair
Alfred B. Adams, Jr.
Reverend Joanna Adams
Carol Cooper
Ann W. Cramer
Jackie Cushman
Tim Ghattas
Etta Raye Hirsch
Libby Gozansky
Gail Marshall
Albert Woodard
Select the links below to view our Fiscal Year 2023 Annual Report and Audited Financials.
The programs and services of Our House are supported in part by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families division and the grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The contents of this website are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development or the U.S. Government. Neither the Administration for Children and Families, the Department of Housing and Urban Development nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse this website (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided. Back to top
