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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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