1. You walk into a Safe Place location (identified by the yellow sign). Tell the first available employee that you need Safe Place help.
2. The employee will find a quiet, comfortable place for the you to wait while they call the local Safe Place contact.
3. The Safe Place contact will call the location back to identify the volunteer or staff member who will come to meet the young person at the location.
4. Ideally, within 20-30 minutes, the Safe Place volunteer or staff member will arrive to talk with you and transport you to the agency for counseling, support, a place to stay or other resources.
5. Once at the agency, counselors will meet with you and provide support, resources and help. They make sure you and your family receive the help and professional referrals needed. (Family members or guardians are called to let them know that you are safe.) The youth serving agency helps the youth and the family through a difficult time or crisis situation through counseling and support services.
CLICK THE MAP, then your STATE to find your local SAFE PLACE!
Safe Place is a community collaboration program, where local shelters make it possible for any youth to access help at locations like fast food restaurants, convenience stores, fire stations, libraries and city buses. All of these locations display our logo, the Safe Place sign. Any youth who has problems or is at risk should go to a Safe Place location.
To see if there is a local Safe Place near you, check out our map in the left column.
Our program makes it easy for kids to find help at Safe Place sites in their own neighborhood whenever they need it. Safe Place connects youth to immediate help and safety and offers supportive services to both youth and their families.
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Everybody...everyone should recognize and know what Safe Place does and means.
Please refer us to your friends!
As a lot of you already know, INBEAT has been serving as an Advise and Empowerment source for some Members for sometime now. These activities have informed on the need for having such a facility within INBEAT on a relular and permanent basis for all Members; on a wide viariety of issues, from career to financial counseling, and from relationship to abuse advise. Thus, an '...INBEAT HELPLINE COMMUNITY...' website(www.myspace.com/inbeathelp) is being launched that would ultimately be manned every hour of the day.
At least 3 Core Staff Persons shall help coordinate this effort, but with a pool of interested Volunteer Community Members. The following Members have agreed to function as Core Staff Persons, and they are owed at least a Vote Of Thanks!:
Discussed issues, but not the actual cases, may serve as impetus for a Self-Help Book that would be published by the '...INBEAT HELPLINE COMMUNITY...' that would go to help others that may find themselves in similar situations and/or predicaments. This would be yet another mechanism for helping build the INBEAT Global Fund that has been discussed previously.
“I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.”
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