Safe Harbor’s Street Outreach

Street Beat, Safe Harbor’s Street Outreach Program, addresses the needs of runaway, homeless and street youth and their families by providing services that promote safety, well-being, self-sufficiency and permanent connections with caring adults. Street Beat not only helps youth leave the streets but also assists them in moving and adjusting to a safe and appropriate living arrangement.

Street Beat is a street outreach program designed to increase the safety, wellbeing, self-sufficiency, and community connections of young people to permanently keep them off the streets.

Coordinated Entry

Promoting Safe & Stable Families (PSSF)

Foster Youth Independence (FYI)

SERVICES:

  • Street Outreach
  • Crisis intervention, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  • Reunification services
  • Food, clothing, emergency shelter, hygiene, and healthcare needs
  • Individual counseling and life skill training
  • Coordinated Entry and HMIS Data Management
  • Foster Youth Independence (FYI) Housing Vouchers
  • Family & Youth Service Bureau (FYSB)
  • PSSF (Promoting Safe and Stable Families) services: GED, secondary education, or vocational training/job skills training, Employment, Community/volunteer opportunities.
  • Pregnancy testing, Parent Education, and Parenting Support

PROMOTING SAFE
AND STABLE FAMILIES

The objective of Safe Harbor Center’s Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program, Street Beat, is to provide homeless youth with the emergency services and referrals they need to find safe housing solutions, to increase the safety, well-being, and self-sufficiency of homeless youth, and to help them build permanent connections with caring mentors with the goal of getting them off the streets. 

The new location of 3305 Jekyll Avenue Brunswick, Georgia has allowed the Street Beat program to offer a twice a week drop-in center. This provides the programs Youth and their families an opportunity to utilize the areas of the new office, to work on life skill (such as doing laundry), receiving tutoring, counseling services, and a hot meal. Transportation is also provided 3-5 days a week to the Social Security office, the Labor Dept. or Labor office, to job interviews, to DFCS for food stamps, and Health Department for birth certificates.