The Runaway Program and Project Safe Place, housed at Link House, utilizes Project Safe Place, offering emergency shelter and counseling up to 14 days.

What We Do
    Project Safe Place offers emergency shelter and crisis intervention for runaway, homeless and throw-away adolescents. Project Safe Place is funded by an Administration for Children and Families federal grant.

   Link House is the only place east of Knoxville where adolescents can legally stay up to 14 days, other than in a juvenile detention center or with a guardian.
    One of every seven children between the ages of 10 and 18 will run away. That’s 3,000 a day who leave to escape troubling situations like these:
• Family Conflict
• Physical Abuse
• Sexual Abuse
• Alcohol and Drug Abuse

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