The concept is truly simple. If you were a young person, as you once were... and you had no place to go... would you not appreciate a phone number to call, and a place to go..... if the place was safe, secure, and you did not have to broadcast your troubles to the world?
The way I envision this project unfolding is this: Begin with one place, near where I live, so I can oversee it. Ideally, this would be a fairly large plot of property, zoned agricultural with one home permitted type of thing.
This would be the starting point, and this would also be a model to build upon for additional places moving across the nation eventually.
Not an underground activity, but a low-profile activity, and one confined to a trained family providing temporary help to young people.
The PROBLEM resides in modern mental health, and its influence over most facets and programs aimed at helping youth. Modern mental health is well-meaning, but this "well meaning" is devoid of "reason" based on the faculty of Intuition . And by Intuition I mean "insight" or access to what I refer to as "CDKA&EU", or the "Virtues" we Human beings are slowly developing over many, many lifetimes. People trained in Modern Mental Health [or BS&Bp (explained HERE, are primarily Intelack individual. Or people who are confined to thinking as their means of relating to Man. Unaware of the MIND of Man. And all conflicts we experience as human beings are caused by our MINDs.... not our brains. To expect a young person to "know" what is causing his/her conflict is silly beyond reason. When a young person leaves home, it is not a lark... it is due to some "conflict" the youth is unable to resolve alone. This conflict is easily and quickly resolved... if the adult helping the youth KNOWS WHAT NEEDS TO BE DOING. Alas, such understanding is in short supply today among "youth oriented" organizations.
The truly strange thing is that by use of competent therapeutic intervention, the "conflict" can be resolved in a few hours rather than days, weeks, etc.
Oddly enough, the therapeutic dimensions of the project are known, practiced and quite effective. And I have trained Psychotherapists so this would also be an easy matter to effect. What is difficult are local zoning laws and bureaucrats who love to restrict and burden citizens. But, any home can have guests, and the state has not posted a guard at every home to check guests... not yet. So, if the program maintained a low profile, and knowledge of it was from mouth to mouth, among youth... I believe the project could work.
So, what I propose is to establish a place, and call it a "model facility" if you like, where we can demonstrate how effective competent therapeutic intervention can be in an environment that is safe, private and effective.
This would mean the most difficult task would be determining whether a youth could go home, or if the home situation was such that a different living requirement is needed? This is where the project could really use some legal advice from some attorney sensitive to the needs of youth. If a different environment is required, then phase II of the program is required. That's discussed Here.