Chosen Vessels Fostering Chosen Pathways Inc
Empowering Lives, Strengthening Communities, Fostering Chosen Pathways
Fostering a variety of human services — workforce readiness; wellness and psychological support; community outreach; veteran support; housing, justice and family resources — bridging gaps for individuals, families and communities.
Our purpose
Our Mission
Meet individuals, families and communities where they are; seek understanding and help these persons by sharing opportunities.
Every gift, volunteer hour and partnership becomes a pathway someone can actually walk: a father understood and supported, a community strengthened, a veteran supported and connected, a family housed, a student encouraged, a neighbor guided back to purpose, a crisis recognized.
Read our full statement of purposeWhat we do
Programs & Services
Workforce Development
Work skills, life skills, and employment readiness in partnership with corporate America.
Wellness Circle
A circle of care offering mental, physical, spiritual and emotional wellness resources and support — guided movement, cognitive exercises, holistic practices, meditation, coaching and grief care.
Fatherhood & Family
Crisis support for married, single and unemployed fathers, plus family and youth programs.
Housing & Resources
Temporary housing, homeownership, transportation, financial literacy and networking resources.
Justice & Reentry
Support against injustices and resources for offenders, incarcerated individuals and reentry.
Safety & Support
Anti-trafficking, domestic violence, missing persons support and a safe haven for victims.
Education & Scholarships
Scholarships, at-risk youth programs, mentoring and educational materials.
Seniors & Companion Care
Daily-need resources for seniors, disabled individuals and the companion care providers who serve them.
Everything we do
Our Chosen Pathways
Our Chosen Pathways and purposes are rooted in lived experiences — those of people affected directly and indirectly — and guide the human services we share and foster.
DADS-R-US
Every father deserves a room where he can be honest. Provides support group meetings, discussions and resources that empower, encourage and support dads — fathers learning from fathers, showing up for their children, and finding strength they did not know they still had. Your gift builds the circle that keeps a dad present, steady and engaged in his family's life.
Oreo's Paws
Some comfort arrives on four paws. Oreo is a service animal and emotional support animal, commissioned through Our Journey of Hope Cancer Care Ministry (OJOH). He travels to embrace individuals with special needs, including autism, lupus, A.D.D. and A.D.H.D., as well as high-functioning adults with learning challenges. His visits also bring companionship to people receiving hospice care; individuals with disabilities, Alzheimer's disease or dementia; veterans; and those living with PTSD, anxiety, depression or grief. He visits schools and nursing facilities, supports companion care providers, and offers comfort to anyone he chooses to serve. Where words fall short, Oreo simply stays — and families remember that visit long after he leaves. Your gift keeps Oreo on the road, bringing calm to the rooms that need it most.
Joshua's Journey
A pathway for children affected by prenatal exposure to drugs or alcohol, and for children who have experienced the death of their mother in their earliest years. Joshua's Journey walks with these children and their caregiving families through the long road that follows — assisting with the physical, mental and emotional challenges associated with these experiences through developmental resources, therapeutic and medical referrals, grief support, school and behavioral support, mentoring, and steady encouragement for the guardians raising them. The focus of this pathway is to make sure no child carries the weight of how their journey began without a community walking beside them.
Cancer Care
Walking with families through diagnosis, treatment and everything after. Provides a variety of resources tailored to meet the needs of survivors, their families and companion care providers — practical help with daily needs, encouragement during treatment, connection to services, and steady companionship for the people carrying the load. Your gift makes sure no one faces cancer without support in their corner.
Hattie B. Dorsey Housing Initiative Legacy
Honoring a legacy of housing justice by helping families move from uncertainty to stability. Fostering affordable housing resources, sustainability, financial literacy, financial planning, seminars and empowerment — so families not only find a place to live, but build the knowledge and confidence to keep it and grow from it. Your gift helps turn a roof over someone's head into a foundation for generations.
Nia is Purpose
Purpose-centered support for children, youth and families living with A.D.D., A.D.H.D., lupus, and other mental or physical conditions that affect day-to-day activities. We create safe, fun and informative spaces to connect, with resources, mentoring, coaching and ongoing support that meet real needs — including peer grief support guided by a credentialed adult. Your gift helps a young person be understood, celebrated and equipped to walk in their purpose.
Love 4 Vet-roes
Serving those who served us — because camaraderie is medicine. Love 4 Vet-roes fosters resources tailored to our VET-ROES' needs, including housing, transportation, mental health assistance and ongoing support, delivered with dignity, respect and follow-through. The pathway also fosters adaptive and recreational athletics, peer connection and wellness through sports leagues, tournaments, fitness training and team events, including community tournaments and family game days. Together, these experiences rebuild strength, purpose, and the bonds of brotherhood and sisterhood after service. Your gift helps a veteran come home to stability and lasting care, return to a team, get back in motion, and reconnect with people who understand — support that lasts well beyond a thank-you.
Groomed 4 Excellence
Confidence is a doorway. Groomed 4 Excellence fosters grooming experiences that enhance mental and emotional well-being and physical appearance, alongside barbering coaching and mentoring. We prepare individuals to walk into interviews, classrooms, courtrooms and new beginnings feeling seen and ready. Your gift helps someone look in the mirror and recognize their own excellence.
Academy for Parents
A place for parents to be poured back into. Fostering adult mentoring, coaching, support and resources for parents who placed their families' needs before their own — practical guidance for the everyday pressures of raising a family, encouragement from people who listen without judgment, and connection to the help they need to keep going. Your gift gives a parent a coach in their corner, a plan they can follow, and the confidence that they are not doing this alone.
Shepherd House
A door that stays open when others close. Fostering safe spaces for at-risk youth; battered women; sex trafficking and human trafficking victims; veterans; families in crisis; people reentering society; those affected by alcohol and substance misuse; and rape victims — offering shelter, safety, dignity and a path forward without judgment. Your gift keeps the light on for someone with nowhere else to turn tonight.
NEXT Gen - Gen Z
The people of this generation are not hard to reach — they are waiting to be heard. Creating safe spaces for these individuals to express themselves, helping them identify and cultivate their gifts, talents and skills, and assisting them with practical, available resources that best suit their needs. Your gift gives a young person a place to belong, an adult who believes them, and a first real look at what their future can hold.
Gwen Austin*Tree 23 Legacy
A legacy carried forward on the court and in the heart. Creative and fun basketball coaching, life skills coaching, interactive and social skills building, and mentoring support young girls and teenage females. Group support, individual support and resources are available for girls experiencing or affected by the death of a parent, grandparent or guardian, and for girls growing up without positive female role models. Here a girl can grieve, grow, laugh and lead in the same season. Your gift gives her a team, a mentor and a safe place to keep becoming who she is meant to be.
Jason's Call
No family should search alone. When someone goes missing, the first hours matter most. Jason's Call aids, informs and supports the search for missing persons and their recovery, standing alongside families, officers in uniform and media partners. We help families organize searches, connect with officers and media, coordinate accurate information, flyers and alerts, and mobilize search and volunteer support so a case is never forgotten. Throughout the waiting, families receive practical care — meals, transportation, prayer, grief and trauma support, and a companion who answers the phone at any hour — along with encouragement to hold on to hope. We remain beside them through recovery and whatever comes next. Your gift puts a steady team beside a family in the hardest hours of their lives and keeps this line open, so the next call is met with action instead of silence.
W.I.E. (Why)
Wisdom — Ingenuity — Evolver. A fun, active and creative space where people of all ages share conversations, exchange ideas, and learn by teaching one another what they know. Through curiosity, shared wisdom and ingenuity, participants deepen their understanding and grow together as evolvers. Your gift keeps the evolvers continually learning from one another and creating with one another.
Workforce Readiness
Work is a pathway out, and we prepare people to walk it. Workforce readiness covers technical skills, blue-collar trades, job readiness, interview preparation and guidance through certificate, diploma and degree programs — paired with coaching and mentoring that keep people encouraged once the training begins. We also assist corporate America in training the community to prepare for employment opportunities by developing the work skills and life skills that strengthen a person's place in their family, community and the corporate world, and we connect people to utility assistance, housing essentials and transportation so a new job is not lost to an old obstacle. Your gift turns readiness into a paycheck that lasts.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Everyone deserves a fair seat at the table. We provide resources that promote equity, diversity, inclusion, fairness, opportunity, engagement, justice and culture — advancing and bridging gaps between individuals, families, communities, public and private organizations, institutions, businesses and learning facilities. Where doors have been closed by circumstance rather than ability, we open them, make introductions and stay until the relationship holds. Your gift builds the bridge that lets a whole community cross.
Coaching, Mentoring & Reentry
People change fastest when someone believes in them out loud. We provide training, life coaching, inspirational coaching and leadership development, mentoring, workforce development, reentry services and ongoing support — walking with individuals long after the first meeting, through the setbacks and the wins. Your gift puts a steady mentor beside someone who has been going it alone.
Family & Economic Growth
Strong families build strong communities. We meet the needs of our communities with resources that encourage family, community, social and economic growth, financial literacy and small business startups — budgeting and credit coaching, savings habits that hold, and practical guidance for neighbors launching their first business or working as independent contractors. Growth is taught in plain language, at kitchen-table pace, until confidence replaces fear. Your gift turns a household that is barely holding on into one that is building something.
Financial, Housing & Transportation Resources
Most crises are one missing resource away from being solved. We provide information and access to available resources, including financial resources, temporary housing, homeownership guidance, transportation and networking resources — walking alongside families as they make calls, complete applications and keep appointments, so the right door is not only found but opened. Your gift keeps a family housed, moving and connected while they get back on their feet.
Anti-Trafficking
Freedom is worth fighting for. We provide resources and support in the fight to combat sex trafficking and human trafficking — awareness and education so communities can recognize the signs, safe connection points for survivors, and trauma-informed referrals for housing, counseling and long-term restoration. Your gift helps bring someone out and keeps them from being taken back.
A Georgia 501(c)(3) public charity
Chosen Vessels Fostering Chosen Pathways Inc is organized exclusively for charitable, educational and community outreach purposes by fostering a variety of human services to individuals, families and communities.
501(c)(3)
Public charity
93-3516785
Employer ID number
509(a)(2)
Public charity status
Georgia
State of incorporation
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Mitchell Austin · 678-760-1492 · 838 Brandy Oaks Lane, Stone Mountain, Georgia 30088