My Friend’s Place: A Place to be Safe, A Place to Belong

The mission of My Friend’s Place is to assist and inspire homeless youth to build self-sufficient lives.

My Friend’s Place is a nonprofit resource center that gives free emergency resources like food, clothing, health services, education, and therapeutic to over 1,800 homeless youth and their children per year.  Their mission is to push Los Angeles’ homeless youth to build self-sufficient lives. What started as a mobile meal program, My Friend’s Place now works to meet the challenges of the abandoned homeless youth well beyond hunger. The social services they provide reach thousands of youth from 12 to 25 per year.

My Friend’s Place: Truly Unique

My Friend’s Place is not government or religiously affiliated and they are 99% funded. Overall, they are one of the most visited Resource Centers for the homeless youth in Southern California.

For homeless teens and homeless youth, the stigma that people associate with this demographic is enough to cause shame and deter these people away from looking for help. My Friend’s Place minimizes the social barriers that usually discourage people to looking for help. They also reduce the high risk behaviors that are so commonly adopted by youth living on the streets of Los Angeles.

Help Out a Teenager in Need

The best way to give back to My Friend’s Place is to become a member either online (Online Giving Form) or through mailing a donation to My Friend’s Place, Membership Program, P.O. Box 3867, Hollywood, CA 90078.  A gift as small as $50 will give someone in need transportation to and from a job interview, and a gift as large as $5,000 provides one-on-one therapy twice a week for an entire year for a teenager suffering from a mental illness.