National Safe Place

"Safe Place" redirects here. For the Staind song "Safe Place", see Break the Cycle. For the type of environment, see Safe space.
The original Safe Place logo, retired in 2013.[1]
New logo, displayed outside a building in Knoxville, Tennessee, 2015.

National Safe Place (doing business as National Safe Place Network) is a non-profit organization based out of Louisville, Kentucky. It originated in 1983 from an initiative known as "Project Safe Place", established by a short-term residential and counseling center for youth 12 to 17.[2]

The organization's Safe Place program is intended to provide access to immediate help and support for children and adolescents who are "at risk" or in crisis situations. That includes, for example, children who are runaways or those experiencing homelessness.[3] The purpose is to both defuse a potential crisis situation as well as provide immediate counsel and support so the child in crisis may be directed to an appropriate shelter or accredited care facility. Various sites in select communities participate in the program, displaying its logo to signify the location as a Safe Place.

  1. ^ "Safe Place Unveils New Logo". The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register. March 25, 2013. Retrieved June 15, 2024.
  2. ^ "What is Safe Place?". nationalsafeplace.org.
  3. ^ Goldberg, Delen; Whitaker, Ian (January 25, 2016). "Saving the dreams of homeless kids". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved June 15, 2024.