Safe Place / Safely Home
What is Safe Place and Where is it Located?
What is Safe Place and Where is it Located?
What is Safe Place and Where is it Located?
Project Safe Place is a connection to immediate help and supportive resources for young people in crisis through a network of Lake County sites sustained by qualified agencies, trained volunteers, and businesses.
There are well over 200 sites in Lake and Porter County which display the sign. Each site is verified and trained by the C
Project Safe Place is a connection to immediate help and supportive resources for young people in crisis through a network of Lake County sites sustained by qualified agencies, trained volunteers, and businesses.
There are well over 200 sites in Lake and Porter County which display the sign. Each site is verified and trained by the Crisis Center, annually.
Boys and girls, ages 10 through 18 who are in a threatening situation, homeless, pushed out of home, a runaway, with an unsafe or drunk driver can use Safe Place.
You may search for current stationary and mobile sites in both Lake and Porter County below by selecting "Find A Site."
How to Get Help ?
What is Safe Place and Where is it Located?
What is Safe Place and Where is it Located?
- Walk into any participating business or public entity that displays the Safe Place logo on its door, wall or window.
- Board any vehicle with the sign, such as city buses, fire trucks, ranger vehicles, etc.
- Call the Crisis Center, 24 hours a day / 7 days a at week for helping with the program: (219) 938-7070 (dial 0).
- Text the word "
- Walk into any participating business or public entity that displays the Safe Place logo on its door, wall or window.
- Board any vehicle with the sign, such as city buses, fire trucks, ranger vehicles, etc.
- Call the Crisis Center, 24 hours a day / 7 days a at week for helping with the program: (219) 938-7070 (dial 0).
- Text the word "Safe" and location (address, city, state) to 69866.
- Live Chat with someone. After you text "Safe" and your address to 44357, you will receive a reply. Then, reply again with the word: 2CHAT to start a live conversation.
If you are an adult, provider, or a youth who is looking to help another youth, call or text for more information. Share our social media sites, and consider becoming a site.
What is Safely Home?
What is Safe Place and Where is it Located?
What is Safely Home?
The Crisis Center’s Safely Home started in 2007 to offer alternatives to boys and girls ages 10 to 17 who are discovered by law enforcement on the streets, who may have runaway or who have been pushed out, asked or forced to leave. Safely Home is a referral/connection to our emergency shelter, Alternative House. They are provided immed
The Crisis Center’s Safely Home started in 2007 to offer alternatives to boys and girls ages 10 to 17 who are discovered by law enforcement on the streets, who may have runaway or who have been pushed out, asked or forced to leave. Safely Home is a referral/connection to our emergency shelter, Alternative House. They are provided immediate safety, shelter, food, clothing plus counseling at Alternative House aimed at resolving problems and getting them safely
back home.
Officers transport boys and girls to Alternative House open 24 hours a day, every day. Each youth sheltered at Alternative House receives an assessment, individual and parent/family counseling by our therapist aimed at resolving conflicts and reuniting families.
Are you a law enforcement officer in Lake or Porter County, or interested in learning more about 'Safely Home' please contact us at
(219) 938-7070.