Once-troubled youths tell their tales at Covenant House gala | NJ.com: ovenant House serves about 2,000 homeless adolescents a year in New Jersey, said Jill Rottmann, the agency’s executive director. The organization, which has crisis centers in Newark and Atlantic City and programs in Elizabeth and Montclair, runs on a budget of $9 million a year.
For the past nine years, the agency has held the fundraiser "A Night of Broadway Stars," in which youth and young adults perform and tell their stories. Rottmann said the event raises about $850,000 for New Jersey’s Covenant House, which mostly serves people ages 18 to 21.
Lawrence Clayton, who played the lead in the Paper Mill Playhouse’s production of "Les Miserables," said performing with Covenant House kids from all over the nation has been "amazing."
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