Youth Issues Information Services | Safe Place - Runaway & Homeless Youth Line - Northern California Family Center
2244 Pacheco Boulevard, Martinez, CA 94553
Eligibility
Ages 0-17
Required documents
None
Hours
24 hours daily
after hours is answered by personal cell phone, ok to leave message if there is no answer.
To access this service, contact:
Thomas Fulton (Executive Director)
Websitehttps://www.ncfc.us/
Languages
English and Spanish
Application process
Call for information; lines roll over to personal cell phone after hours, ok to leave message.
Fees
None
Service area
Contra Costa County, Solano County (Vallejo)
Provides hotline runaway and homeless youth offering shelter options, mediation, information and referral, and phone or in-person counseling. Provides free, immediate help to youth ages 0-17, including immediate housing in a foster home, crisis counseling, family mediation, transportation and referrals. Center is a Safe Place site. If a longer stay is needed, the youth would likely be placed in a foster home for shelter. SAFE Place is not a long-term shelter.
Last Assured
07/23/2024
What's Here
Providing organization
Northern California Family Center
Provides outpatient counseling services, specializing in the treatment of children in families, as well as individual and couple counseling for problems that may include behavior disorders, school avoidance, abuse, family conflicts, marital conflict, depression and adjustment problems. Crisis counseling for adolescent runaways, homeless and at-risk youth. Mediation for these youth and their families. Provides emergency shelter for youth open 24 hour, 7 day a week. Recruits, trains and certifies foster families, who provide conventional foster care for children referred from Social Services in Contra Costa, Alameda and Solano counties.