10/30/2022 0 Comments Safehouse outreach![]() ![]() Today, SafeHouse has matched over 500 caring adults as mentors with at-risk children through SHO’s MentorPlus program and educated hundreds of teen parents in parenting and life skills in SHO’s A New Generation drop-out prevention program. Over the past 25 years, SafeHouse has been instrumental in impacting lives and changing communities. Partnering with local churches and corporations, SafeHouse expanded their outreach with afterschool programs in 16 inner-city communities, crisis pregnancy services, rehab and job placement and assistance for the food insecure. SAFEHOUSE OUTREACH FULLThis was the beginning of becoming a full service community development organization and so named: SafeHouse Outreach or SHO for short. They held church service at midnight on Friday nights and became known within the city as a place where the unreachable could come for assistance. Soon SafeHouse outgrew the booth and moved to a storefront off Peachtree Street. Within 6 months, over 200 volunteers came together with manpower and compassion and began reaching out to anyone in need. Named SafeHouse because the youth who wanted help were taken to a safehouse to insure their safety while family or the authorities were being contacted. Inspired by his own experiences he wanted to reach those who the church considered unreachable.Īt 7th Street and Peachtree Street, a booth in a local hamburger restaurant became the headquarters for SafeHouse on Friday and Saturday nights. In 1982, Philip Bray took to the streets to rescue child prostitutes and runaways who were being sexually exploited in Atlanta, Ga. ![]()
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