Youth Bridge is Safe Place partner in Northwest Arkansas
- Safe Place is a national youth outreach program created by the YWCA of Greater Louisville in 1983.
- Safe Place operates a national public/private network of more than 19,000 sites across the country.
- Youth Bridge is the only authorized Safe Place agency in Arkansas that works with the organization to help runaways and troubled teens who need immediate shelter.
- There are 31 mobile and 28 fixed Safe Place sites in Washington and seven in Benton County.
- Youth Bridge partners with Safe Place to create a network of Safe Place locations — schools, fire stations, libraries, grocery and convenience stores, public transit, YMCAs and other appropriate public buildings – that display the yellow and black diamond-shaped Safe Place sign.
Please call Leslie Carpenter at 479-575-9471 or email lcarpenter@youthbridge.com.
