Covenant House is a large privately funded agency in the Americas providing shelter, food, immediate crisis care, and other services to homeless and runaway youth. In 1972, Covenant House was officially incorporated. The organization also provides care to homeless youth aged 14–20 (certain locations care for youth as young as 13 and adults as old as 24), designed to transition them out of homelessness into independent adulthood. Covenant House offers services including healthcare, educational support/GED preparation/college scholarships, job readiness and skills training programs, substance abuse treatment and prevention programs, legal services, mental health services, mother/child programs, and transitional living programs.