Park Place Outreach, Inc., formerly Marshlands Foundation d.b.a. Savannah Runaway Home, has two facilities on East Henry Street in Savannah, Georgia. Park Place Outreach has served over 6,500 teens in the Savannah community since 1984, providing emergency shelter, meals, and counseling to at-risk youth and their families. Park Place Outreach provides a safe, secure, and loving temporary home for teens who are homeless, runaways, or victims of abuse, and also for youth in DFCS and DJJ custody as a preferable alternative to foster care or detention.
Together we can make this a better world. Park Place Outreach Inc., is in the business of changing lives, giving hope and improving odds by ensuring that youth have access to safety, guidance and caring adults.
The mission of Park Place Outreach Youth Emergency Shelter is to provide services to at-risk youth and their families, increase their functional level, and reunify families whenever possible.
Park Place Outreach is the only facility in the area where homeless or runaway can self-report without an agency or family referral. Park Place Outreach works closely with Greenbriar Children’s Home when longer-term placement or transitional living services are needed.
Additionally, Park Place Outreach collaborates with local law enforcement agencies and government officials in the shared mission to reduce juvenile crime.
With funds left in the will of local philanthropist, Adeline Graham and the support of Rev. Ralph Mark Gilbert of the First African Baptist Church, Greenbriar was established in 1949 by members of Gamma Sigma Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., as an orphanage for African-American children in Savannah and surrounding areas. Prior to this time, African-American children who were homeless or without parental support were placed in local work farms and penal institutions. Today, Greenbriar serves children and families of all backgrounds and ethnicities, through our many programs.
Our mission is to provide services which lead to the healthy development of children and the strengthening of families. We provide childcare, accredited and affordable early learning programs (including Georgia-PreK), family preservation and counseling services as well as an emergency shelter for children and young adults. Greenbriar also operates over 70 Project Safe Place sites in the Savannah area.
We are accredited by the Council of Accreditation for Children and Family Services. We are also Georgia Quality-Rated for our early learning programs.
Our Vision is to ensure that every child and family we serve will experience a healthy, nurturing environment.
Our actions are molded by a set of shared core values that are the foundation of our success. These values are:
Nurturing: We provide the loving environment that gives our children the safe, nurturing environment that best supports their social, emotional and cognitive development.
Advocacy: WE are fierce advocates for the health, safety and well-being of the children in our care.
Commitment: We are totally committed to the well-being and healthy development of our children.
Passion: We are passionate about what we do and the positive impact we can have on the children and families we serve.
Integrity: We consistently seek to do the right thing and to conduct ourselves in an honest and moral manner.
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