Safe and Sound

02/18/2018

We are excited about all of the progress on the Youth Futures-St. George Project and the planned opening at the end of March! Can you help us get the home ready for vulnerable youth needing services?

03/30/2017

Youth Futures Shelter Home provides safe shelter and resources for homeless and unaccompanied minor youth ages 12-17.

02/26/2017

LET'S BRING AN END TO YOUTH HOMELESSNESS! Youth homelessness is not something new but it is something that needs to be talked about. Nationwide, ho...

01/28/2017

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06/01/2016

The plight of the homeless of any age is heart-wrenching, but when the homeless are unaccompanied teens in the midst of Mormon's home base in Salt Lake C...

05/29/2016

I wanted to share some of the data from our First Year Report! What an unbelievable opportunity we have been given to do this work with these magnificent young people! Such important things we are doing...so many lives we are touching! Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this endeavor!
These are some of the quick stats, please see the full report by viewing the images below.
Since our opening we have provided:
--1,535 shelter night stays and 511 drop in services including case management, connections to health care, mental health care and group therapy, facilitation with other youth service providers, computer access, showers, laundry facilities, etc.
--Served 7,085 meals; 3 meals a day and 2 snacks for shelter and drop-in youth.
--Opened the resource room 354 times with access to basic necessities including clothing, hygiene items, back packs, blankets, sleeping bags, basic medical supplies, etc.
--651 times a youth has presented for drop-in services. (This is not an unduplicated number, some of these youth have presented multiple times for drop-in services),
--Conducted more than 245 street outreach hours and provided items from the resource room to street youth.

--64 Individual youth have been sheltered since our opening. We were also made aware of 37 youth between the ages of 12-23, who either didn't present for shelter, or were outside our age range to shelter.
--Average stay is 25 days
--Average Age is 17.5
--Gender: 48% Female, 35% Male, 17% Transgender
--Orientation: 50% Straight, 50% Not Straight
--52% of the youth who enter shelter indicate having had previous su***de attempts
--Our number one goal is to re-unite families wherever possible. We are proud to report 85.4% parental cooperation and consent to participate with our program.
--Recidivism (a youth presenting for shelter more than once) is .08%
YOU have the opportunity to provide a reoccurring monthly donation that will help us continue to improve the lives of these kiddos! Click the GoFundMe link below to schedule your donation.
https://www.gofundme.com/youthfuturesutah

05/08/2016

Guess What???? Grounds for Coffee will be providing coffee and iced tea for anyone who comes to our yard sale, and Pepsi will be providing soda!!!!! Come enjoy all the goodies and shop for some great things!!!
REMEMBER!!! Our Yard Sale is coming up MAY 14, 2016!!

Grounds for Coffee 25th Street
Pepsi

Guess What???? Grounds for Coffee will be providing coffee and iced tea for anyone who comes to our yard sale, and Pepsi will be providing soda!!!!! Come enjoy all the goodies and shop for some great things!!!
REMEMBER!!! Our Yard Sale is coming up MAY 14, 2016!!

Grounds for Coffee 25th Street
Pepsi

03/11/2016

We are thrilled to announce that the Safe and Sound program will now operate under the parent company Youth Futures. Youth Futures opened the first residential support temporary youth homeless shelter in February of 2015 in Utah. Since our shelter offers temporary homes to those that were targeted by Safe and Sound, this program falls nicely into our mission and vision to provide safe shelter to youth. We are pleased to transition Safe and Sound under our wings. And we are even more pleased to be able to provide these services for the minor youth population. Watch for updates in the future about how we will further incorporate Safe and Sound into our program. We want to thank our partner organization OUTreach Resource Centers for the inception of this program and for facilitating a smooth transition. Please feel free to call with any questions you may have. http://yfut.org/

Youth Futures provides safe shelter, collaborative resources, respectful guidance and diverse support to homeless, unaccompanied, runaway and at-risk youth in Northern Utah. Located in the heart of downtown Ogden, Youth Futures opened a homeless youth shelter in February 2015 with 14 temporary overn…

03/11/2016

Awesome article about Youth Futures on the Front Page of the Standard Examiner today about our new Street Outreach efforts. Thank you Janae Francis for ALWAYS writing such great articles!!

01/19/2016

It is a well-documented fact that it is very hard to count the number of homeless youth nationwide. What is even more concerning is that it is virtually impossible to count the LGBTQ population among them.

But a new effort could provide a true count of the number as well as insights into why they became homeless in the first place.

01/07/2016