When a youngster goes to a SafePlace requesting assistance, an employee at
the site calls the Wave C.R.E.S.T. shelter on Selvitz Road in Fort Pierce.
A shelter counselor dispatches a staff member or trained volunteer to the Safe
Place to meet with and then transport the youth to Wave C.R.E.S.T. for
counseling. SafePlace Contact Information.
The program is highly successful in reaching youth during the early stages of
crisis due to one simple fact: youth are more inclined to go to a SafePlace in their own neighborhood than to seek out the shelter.
National Scope
Project Safe Place is a nationally-acclaimed prevention and outreach program
available in over 600 communities across the country. It was developed and
implemented in 1983 by the YMCA Shelter House for Runaways in Louisville, KY.
The program is designed to assist youth that are at-risk, in crisis, or have
run away from home. Project Safe Place offers the protection of a network
of sites across the U.S. where young people can go if they need help quickly.
For more information, Visit the SafePlace Website. 
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