CHRIS 180

CHRIS 180’s mission is to heal children, strengthen families and build community. “CHRIS” stands for the agency’s core values: Creativity, Honor, Respect, Integrity and Safety.

CHRIS 180 helps children, adults and families who have experienced trauma to change the direction of their lives to become more productive and self-sufficient. This is accomplished through mental health counseling, training, real-world skill building, creating safe environments and providing safe housing.

The CHRIS Counseling Center increases clients’ capacity to manage life stressors and mental health concerns, build coping skills and improve communication and ability to function.

Behavioral health services include:

• Comprehensive assessments. • Trauma assessments. • Crisis intervention. • Individual, group and family therapy. • Community support services. • Medication management.

The Summit Trail Apartment Community helps adults, ages 17-24, with stable housing. Supervised living is provided to young adults who are homeless, parenting or leaving the juvenile justice or mental health system.

The Outreach & Community Housing team helps young adults and families who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness to become stable and self-sufficient through housing assistance and support, including coordinated entry, rapid re-housing and emergency assistance.

The Foster Care and Adoption program recruits, prepares and supports families who will foster and/ or adopt children to ensure stable homes. The program educates prospective families about the needs of children adopted through the foster care system, giving them the unique parenting skills needed to successfully adopt. The supports include: • Training for prospective families. • 24-hour on-call service. • Access to counseling services. • Support groups and classes. • One-to-one support from a foster care specialist.

Locations are in DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties. For more information, visit

www.chris180.org.