Greenlink will collaborate with Pendleton Place to in an effort to help provide protection and shelter for at-risk teens, according to a WSPA-TV report. | City of Greenville, South Carolina Government/Facebook
Greenlink will collaborate with Pendleton Place to in an effort to help provide protection and shelter for at-risk teens, according to a WSPA-TV report. | City of Greenville, South Carolina Government/Facebook
Greenlink Transit will collaborate with Pendleton Place to in an effort to help provide protection and shelter for at-risk teens, according to a WSPA-TV report.
The partnership is part of the national Safe Place program, which is designed to broaden the reach of local youth service agencies through partnerships with other groups that can offer temporary shelter.
“Public transit is the natural next step when you are trying to expand those services and make sure that everyone that might need access to them can have access,” Joshua Crocker, Youth Resource Center director at Pendleton Place stated in a YouTube video announcement.
Youths 12 to 21 can request help and services simply by boarding a Greenlink bus marked with a "Safe Place" placard, or by visiting the Transit Center in downtown Greenville and seek assistance from a bus driver or other Greenlink employee.
Greenlink would then arrange for representatives from Pendleton Place to meet the person at the Transit Center to discuss and decide the kind of help they may need.
Over the past year, the YMCA and QuikTrip have also collaborated with Pendleton Place as part of the Safe Place program.
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