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
Terri Tubbs brings more than two decades of nonprofit leadership and fundraising expertise, having supported service and advocacy organizations nationwide, including LaAmistad, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Most recently, she served as Vice President of Development for the Boys & Girls Club of Lanier, where she designed innovative programs, secured strategic funding, and implemented sustainable growth strategies.
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
Rhonda joins the team after spending over 20 years in non-profit financial accounting for a variety of organizations. She is from Chicago and has lived in Georgia for 9 years. She has three adult children and enjoys working out and reading in her free time.
Civic Leader and Organizational Strategist
Southern Poverty Law Center
Windham Brannan LLC
Community Volunteer
United Parcel Services Inc
Begner & Begner P.C
State of Georgia
Martenson, Hasbrouck & Simon LLP
HOME Luxury Real Estate
Owner,
Cloud Home Services
Husch Blackwell
Insight Global
HOME Luxury Real Estate
Delta Air Lines
Aaron’s LLC
HKH Law LLC
Accenture
Optum Behavioral Health Solutions
Bloom Lines LLC
Optum Financial
Tranquilla. AI
QuarterMoore LLC, Five Paces Ventures LLC, Mediciphers, NES Adult Day
Piedmont Office Realty Trust
CPC Advisors
Morris, Manning & Martin LLP Co-Chair
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 2025 Annual Report and Audited Financials.
