Project Reach Out works to improve the network of support to youth and their families through confidential and voluntary crisis intervention referral services. Each year, teens run away for a variety of reasons that may include unresolved conflict, lack of communication, and differences over roles, rules, and expectations.
Project Reach Out can help during these difficult times by ensuring access to 24-hour crisis intervention services, reuniting youth with their families when appropriate, encouraging the resolution of inter-family problems through mediation and other services, strengthening family relationships, encouraging stable living conditions for youth, and helping youth decide upon a constructive course of action and decision making in a non-judgmental atmosphere. Most services are offered for free or a minimal fee. For more information:
- Call (715)394.9177 or 1(800) 777-7844.
- Kayla Polson, Clinical Supervisor
Human Development Center
Office Phone: (218)302-8680
Available Locations: Douglas County, WI
Additional national crisis line resources for runaway youth include:
- National Runaway Switchboard at 1(800)-RUNAWAY or 1(800) 786-2929
- National Youth Crisis Hotline 1(800) 442-HOPE (4673)
- National Suicide/Crisis Hotlines 1(800)-SUICIDE (784-2433) and 1(800)273-TALK (8255)
- National Alcohol Substance Abuse Information Center 1(800) 784-6776
- Teen Dating Abuse Helpline 1(866) 331-9474
- Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network 1(800) 656-HOPE (4673)
- American Pregnancy Hotline 1(866) 942-6466
- Domestic Violence Hotline 1(800) 799-SAFE (7233)
- Trevor Helpline (for gay and questioning youth) 1(866)4-U-TREVOR (488-7386)
- Project Reach Out is available in all eight NW counties of WI, which include Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Iron, Price, Sawyer, and Washburn counties.
