Provides a safe, caring, loving environment. We assist youth with food, clothing, education, emotional and spiritual support. Helps to reduce the barriers young people may have when trying to improve their lives.

Youth Drop-in Center offered at The Answer for Youth

Provide a safe drop-in center environment for homeless or at-risk youth. Assistance may include help with food, clothing, education, laundry, shower, diapers, first aid, emotional and spiritual support.

Multipurpose centers that serve as a focal point for youth in the community and which offer, at a single location, a wide variety of services and activities that are needed by and of interest to this population.

Youth Centers

Programs that pay for or provide new or secondhand clothing for children and/or adolescents.

Children's Clothing

Programs that are staffed by outreach workers who spend time with people who live on the street, build relationships with them, identify and address their immediate needs (e.g., crisis intervention, food, clean clothing, hygiene kits, blankets, someone to listen) and provide information about and linkage to longer-term forms of support such as shelter, counseling, drug and alcohol detoxification and rehabilitation, care/case management and, where applicable, family reunification services. Street outreach programs may be staffed by volunteers or peers who were formerly homeless; and may target special populations such as homeless youth at risk for sexual abuse or exploitation, veterans, or people with specific medical or mental health conditions, or be available to the larger homeless population.

Street Outreach Programs

Programs that provide emotional support, information and guidance for children and adolescents who have run away from home and for the entire family, if appropriate, with the objective of identifying and resolving the problems that prompted the youth to leave home and/or assisting the youth to formulate and implement a workable plan for his or her immediate future.

Runaway/Homeless Youth Counseling

Programs that provide an alternative, non-residential environment that people with any of a variety of issues can visit on an informal basis to find mutual support and access to social and recreational activities. People can drop by whenever they like without the need to make an appointment and have the option of participating in whatever activities are currently underway.

Drop In Centers

Programs that pay for or provide cloth or disposable diapers.

Diapers

Programs that provide fresh or frozen lunches or dinners which are packed in portable containers and typically picked up and eaten elsewhere. Clients may include people who are homeless or low income, have a disability or illness or meet other eligibility criteria.

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Youth Drop-in Center offered at The Answer for Youth