TULSA, Okla. -- The QuikTrip Corp. Fund awarded a $2,000 grant to nonprofit organization The Kitchen Inc. through the Tulsa Community Foundation. The gift will be used to support Safe Place Springfield program operations, including volunteer training and student education.
The Kitchen's Rare Breed Youth Services operates the Safe Place program in Springfield with Boys & Girls Town of Missouri's Empowering Youth emergency shelter as a primary service partner. Youth can access immediate safety, crisis intervention, temporary shelter, counseling and family mediation and [image-nocss] reunification service through Safe Place Springfield.
Safe Place Springfield currently operates 82 Safe Place sites. Springfield sites include QuikTrip stores, City Utilities Transit buses, McDonald's restaurants, Springfield Fire Department stations, Ozarks Regional YMCA branches and Springfield-Greene County Library District branches.
Tulsa, Okla.-based QuikTrip, a private company that owns and operates more than 550 gas stations, convenience stores, travel centers and truckstops in the U.S. Midwest, South and Southwest, has stores in nine statesArizona, Illinois, Iowa, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.
Safe Place is a nation outreach program established in 1983 to provide easy access to help for young people in dangerous, threatening or vulnerable situations. Since then, more than 240,000 youth have accessed help at a Safe Place site or contacted their local youth shelter after learning about Safe Place at a school presentation. Nearly 17,000 businesses and agencies across the nation display the distinctive yellow and black Safe Place sign.
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