Safe Place for Youth, a project of Community Partners
Nonprofit
The mission of Safe Place for Youth is to inspire, nurture, and empower the resilient human spirit of homeless and at-risk youth by providing immediate and lasting solutions, one young person at a time.
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Submitted Ideas
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Idea about how to make LA a better place to live, submitted by this organization in the 2020 challenge.
Make LA the best place to LIVE
One of five LA2050 Goals
Our region’s residents have the economic means and cultural capital to lead active, healthy lives, and everyone benefits from a sustainable environment.
In 2050, Los Angeles will have the nation’s lowest obesity rates and every neighborhood will have access to healthy, affordable food. Every family will be able to afford quality health care and housing. And no families will face environmental health hazards because of where they live or how much money they make.
Safe Pods for Youth
Using existing and ready-to-move in housing provided by PodShare’s co-living model, Safe Pods for Youth offers a low-cost and immediate solution to the youth homelessness crisis. Building off of SPY’s Host Home Program, which invites community volunteers to serve as short-term hosts for young people experiencing homelessness, Safe Pods for Youth galvanizes community sponsors to fund short-term pods for $28 a night. While living in pods, youth will work with SPY to find employment, enroll in s... Learn more