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Project
Safe Place, housed at Link House, utilizes Project Safe
Place, offering emergency shelter and counseling up to 14 days.
What We Do
Project Safe Place offers emergency
shelter and crisis intervention for runaway, homeless and throw-away
adolescents. Project Safe Place is funded by an Administration for
Children and Families federal grant.
Link House
is the only place east of Knoxville where adolescents can legally
stay up to 14 days, other than in a juvenile detention center or
with a guardian.
One of every seven children between the ages
of 10 and 18 will run away. That’s 3,000 a day who leave to
escape troubling situations like these:
• Family Conflict
• Physical Abuse
• Sexual Abuse
• Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Runaways
join the 2 million American youth who live on the streets and daily
face:
• Substance Abuse
• Disease
• Physical Abuse
• Sexual Exploitation
• Criminal Activity
• Death
Annually, 5,000 runaways die from assault, illness
and suicide. Survival sex and/or selling drugs become the norm.
What was once an escape becomes a prison. Link House offers a safe
haven for these youth.
Project Safe Place
The
YMCA
National Safe Place program provides crisis intervention
for 11 to 17 year olds. Designated by yellow and black signs, Safe
Places are businesses with community volunteers trained to direct
teens to the help they need. For teen information,
YMCA
National Safe Place for Teens.
Local Safe Place Sites
Burger King,
Blountville, John B. Dennis &
Stone drive, Kingsport
Coalition for Kids, Johnson City
Courts, Bristol, Kingsport, Sullivan
Food City, Eastman Road
Good Samaritan Ministries, Johnson City
Kingsport City Schools
Kingsport Fire Stations
Lazer Venture, Kingsport
Mt. Carmel Police
Pizza Plus, Bloomingdale, Blountville, Bristol,
Church Hill, Gray, Lynn Garden, Memorial
Blvd., Weber City
Shoney’s, Kingsport
Skate City, Kingsport
Warpath Lanes, Kingsport
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