#DetroitMI - #CovenantHouse to hold annual #SleepOut to raise money to prevent #YouthHomelessness
Covenant House’s 13th Sleep Out brings together community leaders and professionals for one night on the streets
by Jay Scott Smith, November 9, 2026
DETROIT – "Youth homelessness has risen nationwide over the last five years, particularly in Detroit. On Nov. 19, Covenant House will host its yearly 'sleep out' to raise money to help change that.
" 'I always believe that in a city like ours and a country like ours with the resources that we have and the people that care, there should be no reason that anybody sleeps without a bed,' Meagan Dunn, Covenant House’s CEO, said on Sunday. 'I know that with some support, with some intervention, there’s opportunity to really make significant impacts for homelessness.'
"Hundreds of Metro #Detroiters — including local professionals and community officials — will trade their warm beds for cardboard boxes, tarps, and the cold pavement to spend a night on the streets to help raise money and end youth homelessness. It will be the 13th year the Sleep Out has been held in Detroit.
" 'This is more than an event: It is truly a movement,' she said. 'It’s about awareness and how we can help challenge the community to understand what homelessness could look like.'
" 'It’s not necessarily only the person that’s standing on the side of the street,' she added. 'It’s truly people that we see every single day, that we interact with every single day that are #unhoused or challenged in some ways to find a safe place to sleep.'
"The Sleep Out will be held at Covenant House, 2959 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd., in Detroit. Last week, the organization held its second sleep-out in #GrandRapidsMI.
"The particular focus of the Sleep Out will be on the issue of youth homelessness here in the city, which has drastically increased over the last 5 years."
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