You have come to trust The Center for Healing and Hope. Now you will know us by a name you can still trust - Safe Places.
Safe Places is more than a name - it is a promise that our staff is spending time with children and young people, helping create safe places in their lives, places without violence and abuse . . .
places at home, in schools, and in neighborhoods and communities.
We also work with the adults who help keep children grow and thrive - safe and protected.
We fulfill our mission in many ways. Some of those ways include:
- Offering comprehensive and compassionate services that nurture children, adolescents and families when violence has occurred.
- Working with children in their social context, so that violence prevention initiatives have effect in families, schools, community youth programs and neighborhoods.
- Encouraging individuals to create independent lives, free of violence, for themselves and their families.
- Helping children and youth develop the resilience and sense of self that leads to safe and healthy boundaries and respectful relationships.
When you contact Safe Places, you will find a compassionate, caring, and highly qualified staff experienced in working with children and their families who face the grief and loss of violent victimization and abuse.
These are the services we provide:
- Intervention, Education and Trauma-Focused Therapy and Advocacy with Child and Youth Victims Violence
- Specialized Trauma Counseling for Famies Experiencingf Violence and/or Abuse
- Intervention, Education and Advocacy with Child Victims of Violence and Abuse and their Non-offending Families
- Therapeutic Intervention through Specialized and Age-Appropriate Victim Impact Statements for Child and Adolescent Victims of Violence
- Immediate Crisis Intervention and Long-Term Child and Family Advocacy
- Violence Prevention Education: Safety, Risk Reduction & Delinquency Prevention
- Transforming Anger Groups: Help for Children and Adolescents who Feel Angry
- Chances & Changes Groups for Adolescents Who Need a Second Chance
- Safe Talk & Play Groups for Young Children who Are Exposed to Violence or Abuse
- Groups for Young Parents: Raising Safe Children in a Violent World
- Training on Violence Prevention and Intervention for Community Professionals
- Online Intervention and Support
