The PAD (Protection And Direction) drop-in center in Venice Beach, CA helps homeless youth get off the streets and rebuild their lives.
The PAD drop-in center serves the large population of homeless youth in the Los Angeles area. We provide clothing, food and several resources, but the main goal is to get our kids to safe shelter. The PAD (Protection and Direction) is the "hub" to the 17,000 housing resources we refer to all over the United States. Each youth is assessed and goals set to return to family or locate a suitable housing alternative to meet their needs and get them back on track.
12/06/2018
Amazing!!!
Part of former Boys Town compound to become home for girls, women who are human trafficking survivors A benefactor’s donation allowed Lauri Burns to jump on the opportunity to buy a part of the Trabuco Canyon property. She hopes to have the five homes Boys Town once used ready by Christmas.
03/13/2018
If you know any girls 18-25 years old in LA that are suffering from drug addiction and cannot afford help, homeless incarcerated, or prostituting to get more... please send them our way... Freehab wants to help! Thanks to all of our angels, it will be a blessing to help. [email protected]
05/11/2017
This is the kind of stuff that charges my soul! Love these ladies! 💙
This is Olivia (left) and Aja (right.) Olivia is here at Freehab, and going to Beauty School to be an aesthetician. Aja is going to school for her degree in Psychology at Los Angeles Valley College. Aja also graduates today from the Freehab program and will be an Alumni of The Teen Project. We are so very proud of these two ladies.
12/28/2016
Please VOTE for our video! Check it out, the kids did an awesome job!!!! xoxo
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Happy Holidays!
05/19/2016
Please sign up to be one of the angels helping our children!
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Click here to support Homeless kid, tragic - needs help.. by Lauri Burns That's how every one of their stories starts... I tell people the stories of the kids, and they cry. One of my daughters, dad was a pimp, mom was a pr******te, both dead by the time she was 12. She was alone... We put her through school. Because of you, she works at a doctor's office, as a medic...
05/13/2016
Check out the beautiful garden donated from Supervisor Sheila Kuehl's Food for the Soul Grant! So grateful!
Sheila Kuehl donated The Garden of Hope to Freehab! The Teen Project's Freehab now has a sustainable garden thanks to Sheila Kuehl and thanks to the McBeth Foundation, an internship program which allows our ki...
12/24/2015
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!
12/22/2015
L.A. tops nation in chronic homeless population Los Angeles city and county have the most chronically homeless people in the country, and nearly all of them sleep on the streets, according to figures released Thursday by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department.