Project Safe Place
What is project Safe Place?
Project Safe Place, a project of the Youth Service Bureau, is a comprehensive outreach program for the benefit of runaway children and youth in crisis and / or at risk. It provides a network of "safe places," Located throughout the community and nation where young people can go if they need help quickly. Convenience stores, grocery chains, restaurants, fire stations, malls and other commercial locations frequented by youth, are targeted as Safe Places. A highly visible diamond-shaped sign with the recognizable yellow and black Safe Place logo is on display on front walls or windows of every Safe Place location. It is a highly effective means of reaching youth during the early stages of crisis.
How does it work?
When a youth arrives at a Safe Place site requesting help, an employee at the location calls the youth Service Bureau in turn calls a volunteer trained in crisis intervention to respond to the Safe Place site within 15 minutes. The volunteer will assess the situation at the Safe Place site and return the youth home if appropriate. If the youth is unwilling or unable to return home, a trained counselor from the Youth Service Bureau will respond.
About the youth service bureau:
The Youth Service Bureau is a not-for-profit organization designed to divert youth from the juvenile justice and child welfare systems by providing access to needed comprehensive community-based services aimed at prevention, diversion or treatment.
Services Provided
24 hour crisis intervention
individual, family and group counseling
temporary shelter care
advocacy
community education
volunteer involvement program
Our goals are
To reunite or preserve families.
To aid in maximizing the potential of youth to become responsible, productive citizens of the community by reducing negative behaviors, improving self-esteem and encouraging youth to find socially acceptable ways of resolving their problems.
To promote youth development through training and education.
To promote youth community involvement in youth services through volunteers.
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