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- EIN 20-4343628
- (502) 635-3660
- 2411 Bowman Ave Louisville KY 40217 USA
- www.nationalsafeplace.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Child Abuse Prevention, Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services, Crime & Law, Disaster Aid, Domestic Violence, Safety Education
Mission: National safe place network's (nspn) mission is ensuring an effective system of response for youth in crisis through public and private partnerships at the local, state and national level. Nspn works to provide options and information that provide services to youth, youth and family service organizations and the field of youth service work. To this end nspn operates several key programs including implementation of the safe place program, the text 4 help initiative, membership services, and the runaway and homeless youth training and technical assistance center (rhyttac).
Programs: Nspn works with agencies and communities across the united states to implement the safe place program on a local level. The program utilizes public and private partnerships at the local level to create safe locations where youth can go when in crisis and in need of safety. Local communities provide outreach education, immediate response, shelter and related services to these youth and their families. Nspn provides additional trademarked materials, awareness campaigns, training opportunities, and assistance to communities implementing this program. There are nearly 20,000 safe place sites where youth can get help across the united states with more being added every day. Nspn also offers the text 4 help program for youth to get connected via text messaging to the closest safe place location and/or to connect with a master's level mental health professional.
nspn member services include a base membership offering reduced fees to training, advocacy alerts, networking opportunities. Specialized packages such as training, organizational development and professional development are also options. These offer members things such as funding proposal review, capacity assessment reviews, e-learning options, youth worker certification training, succession planning consultation, executive coaching, crisis debrief for staff and volunteers, and onsite training options. Individual membership is also offered.
nspn also serves as the runaway and homeless youth training and technical assistance center (rhyttac). This center provides training assistance in a variety of forms for federally funded grantees providing shelter, transitional housing, maternity group homes and street outreach to runaway and homeless youth across the united states. These services include national conferences, onsite technical assistance, webinars, an electronic training library, communities of practice interact site for providers, resource guides and tip sheets, regional trainings and phone consultation. Nspn also offers training on human trafficking through the htr3 program.