If you are a member of the media developing a story about Safe Place, please contact:
Hillary Bond
Communications Coordinator
(502) 814-1069
(502) 635-3678 (Fax)
hbond@nationalsafeplace.org
News Stories/Press Releases
2012
- CSX, City year bring together more than 100 volunteers for National Safe Place
- National Safe Place launches TXT 4 HELP “Interactive” to provide help for youth in crisis
2011
2010
- National Safe Place Executive Director, Sandy Bowen, Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
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2009
- Economy Forcing More Teens Onto Streets (WLTW – Cincinnati, OH)
VIDEO - Number of Teen Runaways on the Rise (WLKY – Louisville, KY)
- Eight Nonprofit Organizations Receive Humana’s Economic Response Grant
- Transit Authority to Designate Buses as Safe Places for Kids
(WTRF-Wheeling, WV) - Agency Seeks More Safe Place Sites (Wheeling, WV)
- ‘Miss Sheila’ Makes a Difference to Many Children in Crisis (Wichita Falls, TX)
- Safe Place, Indeed (Louisville, KY)
- TXT 4 Help:
Press Release
Public Service Announcement
Public Service Announcement 2
Articles: - Youth Services: TXT 4 Help
- TXT 4 Help Program Aims to Help Teens in Crisis
- National Safe Place Launches TXT 4 Help to Get Immediate Help to Youth in Crisis
- Teens in Crisis Can TXT 4 Help
- To Teens in Need, Send a TXT
- Youth Services Joins TXT 4 Help Initiatives
- Reaching out to Homeless Teens Via Text
- Teens Can Text Their Way to Safety
- National Safe Place Has Developed Another Way for Youth to Get Help
- Youth Seeking a Safe Place Can ’TXT 4 Help’
- CSX On-Hand for Launch of TXT 4 Help
2008
- National Safe Place and Southwest Airlines to Create Hall of Fame for At-Risk Youth
Full Story - Senate Unaminously Approves Feinstein-Martinez Resolution Designating March 16-22 as ‘National Safe Place Week’ (Office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, March 14)
Download PDF - Safe Place Expanding to Web, Theaters (Courier-Journal, March 14)
Download PDF - Safe Place Campaign Targets 2.5 Million Youth On Their Turf – Online and at the Movies – During Organization’s 25th Anniversary Year (National Safe Place, March 13)
Download PDF - Collection of Youth Art, Poems and Stories Published in National Safe Place’s ’Heart of the Matter’ (National Safe Place, Feb. 14)
Download PDF - We Must Pass The Reconnecting Homeless Youth Act (Op-Ed by Rep. John Yarmuth, The Hill, Feb. 4)
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