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Youth Outreach For Life

Youth Outreach for Life

 

EMERGENCY NUMBERS  Synergy Services

Domestic Violence Hotline
816-HOTLINE
800-491-1114
24 Hour Youth Crisis Hotline
816-741-8700
888-233-1639
24-Hour Access Line to reStart Inc. (816) 472-5664
24-Hour Youth Hotline (816) 309-9048

 

AGED OUT YOUTH PROGRAM
Developing and collaborating with Kansas City Youth Service providers to design and develop
An Aged Out At Risk/Homeless Youth program to address the issue of limited services for this age group.
Looking for new ways to fill the gap in services.
TOTAL RIDES PROVIDED TO YOUTH AS OF END OF June OF 2013
NUMBER OF YOUTH : 138
NUMBER OF RIDES INCLUDING FOLLOW UPS : 6,016
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TOTAL TRANSITIONAL/TREATMENT NIGHTS PROVIDED AS OF JUNE 2013
Total Transitional/Treatment nights provided through 2012: 4,831
Total nights of Direct Shelter provided: 4515

 

2011 Homelessness Radio Marathon 
 
The 14th annual Homelessness Marathon originated from Kansas City, Missouri on February 23rd 2011 and aired on over 120 U.S radio and TV stations, including Free Speech TV. The broadcast site was located at Hope Faith Ministries, 705 Virginia Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri. For more information, visit the KKFI Homelessness Marathon page.

Everybody Needs a Safe Place

Safe Place is the first step to help for any youth in crisis or at risk.  This community collaboration program, operated by youth shelters or youth serving agencies make it possible for any youth to access help at locations including fast food restaurants, convenience stores, fire stations, libraries and city buses which display the Safe Place sign.  Youth can easily find help at Safe Place sites in their own neighborhood whenever they need it.  Safe Place connects youth to immediate help and safety and offers supportive services to both youth and their families.

National Safe Place SignIf you’re having trouble at home, at school, or can’t deal with a serious problem, Safe Place is a way to get help.

Fast food restaurants, convenience stores, fire stations, libraries and even buses that display the Safe Place sign are places you can go to ask for the support you need. The people inside will know what to do to connect you to help.

So, if you have a problem you can’t solve, look for our sign. Any time. Any day. Every day. Safe Place is here for you.

If you are in immediate danger, or if you need to speak to someone about your situation, call the National Runaway Switchboard’s 24/7 hotline at 1-800-RUNAWAY.

 

Studies, including those done by Pew,  show that one in five of youth who age out will be homeless within two years of leaving foster care. 

Half won’t have a high school degree. Less than 3 percent graduate college.

Synergy Services Logo ReDiscover - Help, Hope, Healing Logo Stacy Pratt Homeless Liaison

National statistics are representative of our experiences locally in serving youth

Most youth become homeless because of problems in the home

Nearly half experienced physical or sexual abuse at home

Nearly half report their parents had been treated for substance abuse or mental health issues

Nearly half have witnessed domestic violence in the home

12-17 year olds are at greater risk for being homeless than are adults

One in seven youth between the ages of 10 and 17 will experience being homeless at least once during that time period.

40% report being abused or thrown out because of their sexual orientation

50% were told to leave by their parents or parents knew they were leaving and didn’t care

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The Cost Of Dropping Out

 

Of all the problems this country faces in education, one of the most complicated, heart-wrenching and urgent is the dropout crisis. Nearly 1 million teenagers stop going to school every year.

The impact of that decision is lifelong. And the statistics are stark:

  • The unemployment rate for people without a high school diploma is nearly twice that of the general population.
  • Over a lifetime, a high school dropout will earn $200,000 less than a high school graduate and almost $1 million less than a college graduate.
  • Dropouts are more likely to commit crimes, abuse drugs and alcohol, become teenage parents, live in poverty and commit suicide.
  • Dropouts cost federal and state governments hundreds of billions of dollars in lost earnings, welfare and medical costs, and billions more for dropouts who end up in prison.
NPR – by CINDY JOHNSTON

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Children

  • 1,500 children die every year from child abuse and neglect. That is just over four fatalities every day. 79% of the children killed are younger than age four.
  • 80% of young adults who had been abused met the diagnostic criteria for at least one psychiatric disorder at the age of 21 (including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, & post-traumatic stress disorder)
  • Abused children are 25% more likely to experience teen pregnancy
  • Children who experience child abuse & neglect are 59% more likely to be arrested as a juvenile, 28% more likely to be arrested as an adult, and 30% more likely to commit violent crime.
  • Children who have been sexually abused are 2.5 times more likely develop alcohol abuse and 3.8 times more likely to develop drug addictions.
  • Synergy’s Children’s Center housed 110 children last year.
  • 19% of the children served by Synergy’s children’s shelter are under one year old. 61% are under six years old.

Youth

  • More than 2,000 young people in Greater Kansas City are homeless at any given time.
  • Traditional homeless shelters don’t accept unaccompanied youth under 18.
  • For the past five years, lack of space at Synergy House—which provides 60% of the beds available to the metro’s homeless youth—has forced Synergy to turn away one youth for every one that is served. 
  • 43% of homeless youth report being beaten by a caretaker.
  • 40% of homeless youth report being gay and abused in their schools and homes for their orientation.
  • 44% of homeless youth report that one or both of their parents had at some point received treatment for alcohol, drug or psychological problems.
  • 314 young people were sheltered at Synergy House in 2007.
  • The Street Outreach Services program served 1,630 youth on the street and distributed 19,923 items including food, water, clothing and blankets.

 Women

  • One in three women will be abused in her lifetime.
  • 2,880 women are beaten daily.
  • 40% of all 911 calls are domestic violence related.
  • SafeHaven, Synergy’s domestic violence shelter, provided shelter to 304 Women and 225 children last year. 
  • Synergy’s Women’s Center hotline received 3,011 calls in 2007.

Bullying

  • More than 500,000 “attacks, shakedowns and robberies” occur every month in secondary schools (National School Safety Center)
  • An estimated 160,000 children miss school every day due to fear of attack or intimidation by other students (National Education Association)
  • 81% of boys and 72% of girls will be seriously impacted by bullying during their school career (National Journal of School Counseling)
  • Almost 16,000 young people attended Synergy’s violence prevention programs last year.
  • Statistic source from Synergy Services

Be the Change Synergy Youth Resiliency Center

reStart Inc. , an interfaith ministry with homeless persons, is committed to providing shelter and supportive services to homeless men, women, youth and families with the goal of helping persons move toward independence and self-sufficiency.

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Drop-In Center
reStart, Inc.  currently operates the Homeless Service Center, a day program drop-in center located near downtown on 8th & Paseo.  The Homeless Service Center is the only daytime Drop-in Center in the urban core area.  As of April 15th, reStart will begin to expand the daytime drop-in Center to an evening drop-in Center for youth up to age 22.  This will occur starting one night a week, every Thursday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.  During this time reStart will provide basic services to include showers, dinner, ability to do laundry, attend an outreach group, receive shelter and an opportunity to receive long-term case management to meet any of their needs.  Please stay tune for more updates.
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“PUSHING THROUGH FEAR IS LESS FRIGHTENING THAN LIVING WITH THE UNDERLYING FEAR THAT COMES FROM A FEELING OF HELPLESSNESS.”
SUSAN JEFFERS

“In reviewing my life I saw that I often repeated the same mistakes over and over until finally I learned the lesson. But I also saw that the more I learned, the more doors of opportunity were opened to me. And they were literally opened. Many things I thought I had done by myself were shown to have been extended by divine help.”

Embraced By The Light, p. 115

 

“Forgiveness of self is where all forgiveness starts. If I am unable to forgive myself, it is impossible for me to truly forgive others. And I must forgive others. What I give out is what I receive. If I want forgiveness, I have to give forgiveness.”

Embraced By The Light, p. 116

 

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