Working to End Youth Homelessness
Approximately 4.2 million youth ages 13 to 25 experience homelessness each year in the United States.
For 50 years, the National Runaway Safeline (NRS) has been providing crisis intervention services to young people and their families while also offering prevention, educational and training programs to the network of runaway and homeless youth (RHY) service providers nationwide. This work directly supports our mission of keeping runaway, homeless and at-risk youth safe and off the streets.
Donate
Help End Youth Homelessness Today
Every donation to the National Runaway Safeline (NRS) helps to ensure a compassionate, trained person responds to calls, emails, chats, posts and texts from youth and families in crisis. With the generous support of our funders and donors, NRS crisis services are accessible 24/7.
Volunteer
Crisis services volunteers respond to hotline calls, chats, emails and forum posts from youth and families at their most vulnerable moments. It is with the support of our dedicated, trained volunteers that we are able to provide crisis intervention services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Youth Advisory Board
The NRS Youth Advisory Board offers the opportunity for young people across the nation to engage with one another and the NRS staff on projects that have a meaningful impact on NRS crisis services and prevention activities.
Ways to Help
- Review our website to gather information, opportunities and ways to support our mission.
- Consider getting involved by volunteering, donating, attending an event and more.
- Sign up for a volunteer training session, contact our organization for additional information, make a donation, register for an event and download materials and resources.
- Help spread the word and raise awareness about NRS and the goal to end youth homelessness by using the information and resources here, i.e., interview an NRS representative for newspaper article.
