Home Free | National Runaway Safeline
Provides a free bus ticket home to help reunite qualified runaway youth with their families or an alternative living program. Program is in partnership with Greyhound Lines, Inc.
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Physical Address
3141-b N Lincoln Ave., Chicago, IL 60657
Hours
24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Fax
(773) 929-5150
Website
Application process
Youth must call 1-800-RUNAWAY (786-2929) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to start the process. Cannot access the program via chat, text, email, or bulletin. After youth contacts the hotline and the individual's situation is assessed for eligibility, someone from the hotline will phone parents/guardian, set up a conference call with the parent/guardian and youth, and then call Greyhound and make travel arrangements. Information about the program is also available on website.
Fee
Free.
Eligibility
Must be between the ages of 12 and 21 and be returning to a parent, guardian, approved caregiver, or shelter or transitional living program. A conference call between the youth and person they are returning to is required, as well as basic documentation (an ID or the equivalent). Youth, age 15 and under, may require an approved adult to accompany them. If so, a free ticket for the accompanying adult is provided. Home Free can only be used in the United States.
Service area
United States
Agency info
National Runaway Safeline
Provides confidential, 24/7 crisis intervention services for runaway and homeless youth and their families.