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Safe Space program
A dedicated Safe Space provides vulnerable young people a place to rest, rehydrate, charge their phones, get first aid, find transport home, or wait for friends or family.
Take Kare program
Since December 2014, we’ve provided funding and support for the Take Kare program, which operates in the city each Friday and Saturday night.
The program has helped more than 70,000 young people avoid the risk of late-night alcohol-related violence in the city centre. Now it has been extended into Darling Harbour.
Roving teams of trained volunteer ambassadors provide on-the-spot assistance to people vulnerable to becoming offenders or victims of crime in the city at night.
A dedicated safe space provides vulnerable young people a place to rest, rehydrate, charge their phones, get first aid, find transport home, or wait for friends or family.
The trained volunteers routinely assist people who have passed out alone, who are receiving unwanted attention or who are involved in situations of verbal and physical aggression.
Program snapshot
- 12,801 people were supported by the safe space and Take Kare Ambassador program in 2017/2018.
- 1,416 people were provided with first aid
- 2,562 phones were charged at a safe space
- 1,283 people were helped with directions
- 512 people were given assistance regarding public transport
- 258 people were assisted to reconnect with friends/family
- 10,241 people spent time at a safe space.
