National Safe Place is a non-profit organization based out of Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

. It originated in 1983 from an initiative known as "Project Safe Place", established by a short-term residential and counseling center for youth ages 13 to 17. The organization is intended to provide nationwide support with a "safe haven" to children and adolescents who are "at risk" or in crisis situations. The purpose is to both defuse a potential crisis situation, as well as provide immediate counsel and support so that the child in crisis may be directed to an appropriate shelter or accredited care facility.