BENEFICIARY PROGRAMS
Did you know that 4000 troubled teenagers lived on the streets of
San Francisco last year and more than 6000 at risk youth and their
families received preventive, medical and crisis intervention services
in our city? STREETSMART4KIDS aims to help
these young people find a better life by raising funds that support
the San Francisco Youth Network through equal donations to Huckleberry
Youth Programs and Larkin Street Youth Services. These organizations
offer services to aid physically, sexually and emotionally abused
young people by providing them with the resources and the skills
they need to realize lives of dignity and economic self-sufficiency.
STREETSMART4KIDS contributions will help to support these programs.
Specifically, Huckleberry's Violence Is Preventable (VIP) Project
is a collaboration of San Francisco-based service agencies committed
to assisting young women who are witnesses and victims of violence.
By providing counseling, medical, health education, employment,
and mentoring services, the program works to address the unique
needs of these young women. VIP is supported through the Huckleberry
Youth Programs agency, which has more than 35 years of experience
working with youths and families. The agency started San Francisco's
Huckleberry House in 1967, the nation's first program for runaways.
Since that time, Huckleberry has helped thousands of young people
and their families in San Francisco and Marin Counties.
La Casa de las Madres offers emergency residential shelter to
battered women and their children while providing counseling,
family-based services and referrals. Our Emergency Crisis Shelter
has the capacity to shelter and support 35 women and children
per night. La Casa's downtown San Francisco office houses our
two 24-hour Crisis Phone Lines, a Drop-In Counseling Center, the
Teen Intervention & Prevention Program, and the Community
Education & Outreach Program. All services are offered free-of-charge
in English and Spanish.
Larkin Street's Together Assisting Street Kids (TASK) Program
offers a continuum of housing, education and supportive services
that helps homeless youths aged 12 to 17 to reunify with their
families or, if reunification is not possible, to receive the
care and encouragement they need to finish school and build strong
foundations for their futures. The TASK program pursues its goals
by focusing on crisis intervention services, stabilization services,
and long-term solutions to homelessness. TASK is one of an array
of programs offered by Larkin Street Youth Services. Founded in
1984, Larkin Street Youth Services is a community-based non-profit
dedicated to offering runaway and homeless youths alternatives
to street life, and to inspiring them to move beyond the streets
and realize their full potential.