Our Service Model
My Friend’s Place offers comprehensive services to 1,000 youth experiencing homelessness between the ages of 12 and 25 each year.
Our Programs
Our Mission
My Friend's Place is a community that cultivates growth and opportunity for young people experiencing homelessness.
From our early beginnings as a volunteer-based group serving meals from the trunks of cars to the dynamic resource center in operation today, My Friend’s Place offers comprehensive services to over 1,000 young people experiencing homelessness between the ages of 12 and 25, and their children, each year, helping our homeless young people move toward wellness, stability and self-sufficiency.
Our Core Values
For 36 years and counting, My Friend's Place has been assisting and inspiring youth experiencing homelessness to build self-sufficient lives. Using a JEDI-centered approach, we hold the following values:
- Judgment free
- Human worth
- Individualized response
- Trust
- Low-Barrier
- Harm Reduction
- Strength-Based