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
Interim Chief Development Officer
Coming Soon
Chief Program 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.
Senior Director of Evaluation and Learning
Mario is the child of a Mexican immigrant family with his mother being the primary caregiver after my father passed away
soon after immigrating to the U.S. Mario personally knows what it means to navigate systems without anyone making it easy. That experience is what drew him to this work. Mario became a nurse, served in the Peace Corps, then went to Emory for public
health because he believe communities deserve programs built with them, not just for them. Everything Mario’s learned since has been in service of that idea. His life outside of work includes spending time with his wife Lyndsey and their pet Piper, building
strong community relationships through my Emory Alumni Board involvements and attending and volunteering at his local
church in Decatur, and breaking a sweat at our local YMCA in a step class that he’s been attending for almost two years!
Senior Director of Health Programs
Jennifer Rossignol, Family Nurse Practitioner based in
Atlanta, Georgia, has nearly 20 years of experience in patient care, starting with
her roots as a health worker and patient advocate that sparked her passion for
nursing led care. Her clinical expertise
spans primary and preventive care across the lifespan, acute and chronic
disease management, infectious disease, sexual and reproductive health, and
maternal-child health.
She currently serves as Senior Director of Health Programs
at Our House Health, where she provides inclusive, holistic, patient-centered
care to individuals and families who have been systematically excluded from
accessing life-saving healthcare. In this role, she combines strong clinical
leadership with a deep commitment to health equity, patient advocacy, and
improving outcomes in underserved communities.
Jennifer’s career includes experience in primary care, public
health, retail medicine, and hospital-based maternal-newborn care. She has also
contributed to the education of future clinicians as a clinical instructor and
graduate teaching assistant at Georgia State University, reflecting her passion
for mentorship and professional development. She holds a Master of Science in
Nursing from Georgia State University, along with undergraduate degrees in
Nursing and Biology. When she is not working, she can be found in the yoga
studio, reading, and spending time with her husband, daughter, and two furkids.
Civic Leader and Organizational Strategist
Community Advocate and Volunteer
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Attorney, Partner with Martenson, Hasbrouck & Simon LLP
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Begner & Begner P.C
IT for HOME Real Estate / Owner, Cloud Home Services
Husch Blackwell
Georgia State University
HKH Law LLC
Peachtree Psychological Associates
Delta Air Lines
Liger Partners, LLC
Aaron’s LLC
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Bloom Lines LLC
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Optum Financial
Southern Poverty Law Center
Tranquilla. AI
Piedmont Office Realty Trust
Grady Hospital
CPC Advisors
Morris, Manning & Martin LLP Co-Chair
Co-Chair
Honorary Co-Chair
Alfred B. Adams, Jr.
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.
