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Youth Resources
YES is here to ensure you have a safe place where you can feel at home. Here, you are seen, heard, and respected. You are cared for and you have a choice in your next steps to self-sufficiency.
YES offers a range of programs and services to meet your needs. We value your lived experience and believe it is important to influencing change within our community.
Are you a youth or young adult in need of assistance right now? Call our office at 402.345.5187 or come to our Street Outreach Center.
If our office is closed, call our 24/7 Safe Place crisis line at 402.578.SAFE.
Programs
Youth Emergency Services’ continuum of care is focused on addressing immediate needs (food, shelter, and safety). Until those are met, long-term rehabilitation cannot occur. Once a youth in our care is in a more stable place, emotionally and physically, we focus on building self-sufficiency and self-resiliency.
YES works to make youth homelessness temporary, not chronic. But this cannot be achieved unless the youth or young adult is able to take care of themselves. Across all our programs, we offer specialized case management services, mentorship, and weekly support groups. Our goal is to help you build life skills, make connections, and strengthen relationships. We work with the individuals we serve to set goals, receive mental health services, learn accountability, and strengthen their ability to get and keep a job.
Street Outreach
The YES Outreach team seeks out youth in crisis. They distribute basic needs and emergency supplies in areas of the metro where unhoused youth commonly meet. Outreach workers are trained to identify a youth or young adult in crisis and to provide immediate information and services.
Our Street Outreach team connects with unhoused youth and young adults, ages 16 to 21, to introduce them to our Street Outreach Center.
Our Street Outreach Center is a safe place where you can do things like:
Enjoy a warm meal
Take a hot shower
Do laundry or select clothes from our clothing boutique
Meet with health care professionals (physical and mental)
Access sexual health testing for STDs and Pregnancy
Get help obtaining a driver’s license or other form of identification
Reach out to us
Contact our Street Outreach team at 402.502.1636 or via the Street Outreach Facebook Page.
The YES Street Outreach Center is located at:
2602 Harney Street
Omaha, NE 68131
Street Outreach Center hours:
Monday through Friday 1-5 p.m.
Emergency Shelter
The YES Emergency Shelter is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week with youth workers, counselors and advocates. Youth and young adults seeking housing are screened to ensure appropriate placement and safety of the residents.
Our emergency shelter is a family-style residence with separate sleeping areas for male and female guests. Guests share meals, television and computer access, as well as recreation and laundry facilities in a community area. While they stay, our trained staff spends individual, focused time with guests to help them work through the problems they face. Our emergency shelter is available to youth ages 16 to 21 for up to 90 days.
If you are a youth in need of a safe place to stay, please call 402.345.5187 or visit our Community Resources Page.
Transitional Living Program (TLP)
YES offers a Transitional Living Program (TLP) which provides long-term services to runaway and homeless youth, ages 16 to 21. TLP residents live in apartment-style homes for a maximum of 18 months and work closely with case managers to set and accomplish several goals.
The TLP program is designed to provide an environment in which youth will be able to develop the ability to function independently in the community.
Maternity Group Home
The Maternity Group Home program provides services to runaway and homeless youth, ages 16 to 21 who are pregnant or parenting and may not be able to access services otherwise. Participants live in a family-style residence for up to 18 months and work closely with case managers to move toward self-sufficiency.
Safe Place
Safe Place is a national youth outreach and prevention program for young people under the age of 18 (up to 21 years of age in some communities) in need of immediate help and safety. As a collaborative community prevention initiative, Safe Place designates businesses and organizations as Safe Place locations, making help readily available to youth in communities across the country.
YES is a Safe Place representative for the Omaha metro. We work to recruit more Safe Place sites and also ensure that existing sites have proper signage and training on what to do.
Are you a youth or young adult in an emergency? Do you need help right now? Call the 24-hour YES Safe Place crisis line: 402.578.SAFE.