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PROJECT SAFE PLACE
What is Safe Place?
Safe Place is for kids and teens in trouble. Not the kind of trouble like you did something wrong! We mean the kind of trouble that would make you want to ask for help.
There are many reasons why someone would want to ask for help. What are some of the reasons you can think of that someone might want to ask for help?
Select any of the following situations you think someone could use Safe Place for help:
1. Someone
who ran away from home.
2. Parents argue/fight and are violent at home.
3. Someone who gets picked on or has no friends.
4. Someone who is in a gang, lives near a gang, or is a gang wannabe.
5. Someone who was followed or hassled by a person they did not know.
6. Someone who has a problem they feel they cannot talk to anyone about.
7. A person who got kicked out of their house.
8. Someone who has to stay on the streets overnight.
9. A person who has problems with drugs.
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WHERE ARE SAFE PLACES?
Anywhere you see this yellow and black Safe Place sign you can ask for help.
Schools, community centers, 7/11 stores, Round Table Pizza, Armadillo Willy's, Safeway stores, Taco Bell, fire stations and on ALL buses and light rails.
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU NEED A SAFE PLACE
Go in and ask for help if you are in trouble. Say, "I need a safe place" and an employee will call Bill Wilson Center to come to talk to you.
a) You don't
have to tell the employee at the Safe Place what's wrong; you just have
to ask for help.
b) You can change your mind at any time. No one will make you stay.
c) What you talk about with a Safe Place counselor is confidential.
d) You can get help 24 hours a day by calling collect 243-0222 if a Safe
Place is not available.
e) It doesn't cost anything to use Safe Place.
f) You can stay at the Bill Wilson Center shelter overnight if you don't
feel safe going home.
g) Don't forget that buses and light rails are Safe Places. If you need
help, you can get on a bus anytime and tell the driver you need a Safe
Place. The bus driver will call someone to come pick you up and bring
you to Bill Wilson Center.
SAFE PLACE QUIZ
Now is time to test your knowledge! Take this mini quiz:
a) Which
of the following is NOT a Safe Place site:
o 7/11
o Safeway
o Buses
o Chucky Cheese
b) How much does Safe Place cost?
o $5
o Free
o $1
o $100
c) How do you get help on a bus?
o Get on the bus and sit in the back.
o Get on the bus, and ask the driver for help.
o Yell at the bus as it drives by.
d) Which of the following IS a reason why someone would need safe place.
o A girl is having a bad hair day and needs beauty advice.
o Someone is having troubles with drugs and wants to get help.
o A person needs a ride to meet their friends.
QUESTIONS
ABOUT SAFE PLACE
Contact Deryk Clark (408) 850-8466
WANT
TO GET INVOLVED WITH SAFE PLACE
Go to our Safe Place Community Outreach web page
and find out how you can help!