Our Harriet Tubman Emergency Shelter was founded in October 2012 in a targeted attempt to reduce the number of young African American men being incarcerated in a juvenile detention center while awaiting a court hearing.

The Harriet Tubman Shelter continues to serve as an alternative to detention for young men (ages 13-18) for a maximum of 90 days prior to juvenile court hearings, before they return to their families, before they are referred to another of our group homes for continuing care, or as they transition toward independent living.

While in our care, the young men receive life skills training, healthcare, academic support, job readiness training, and job placement assistance. The young men at Harriet Tubman also receive clinical services, medication management, anger management, trauma/abuse focused treatment, grief & loss counseling, mentoring, tutoring, drug/alcohol treatment, and family therapy. We are dedicated to helping these young men realize their dreams “as if they were our own.”

We call the Harriet Tubman Shelter our “Overground Railroad” to freedom. The mission of our Overground Railroad to freedom is for each young man to learn and grow from positive experiences and opportunities in the shelter with caring adult mentoring to keep them on the right track toward constructive, productive and meaningful lives and futures.