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Anchor House (CRF ID #309)

ADDRESS
482 Centre St.
Trenton, NJ 08611

PHONE
609-396-8329

FAX
609-396-1239

EMAIL
anchorhouse@comcast.net

HOTLINE
609-396-8329 (accepts collect calls)

ADMINISTRATOR
Brian Rottkamp, Executive Director

HOURS
24 hours/ 7 days a week

DESCRIPTION
A multi-service agency offering shelter, counseling, referrals, recreation, life-skills education, crisis intervention, outreach, transitional housing and other services to at-risk, homeless, runaway, throwaway, abused and other youth and their famlies.

SERVICES
Temporary shelter - Food, clothing, medical attention, recreation - Runaway, homeless and/or abused youths ages 10-17
Residential services - Long-term, transitional - Youths ages 18-21
Counseling - Individual, group, family
Information and referral
Drug and alcohol assessments
Self help/support groups - Teens and adults
Public Education/information - Outreach, speakers - Local schools, neighborhood
School/street Outreach
Advocacy

PROGRAMS
Anchorage: Transitional living program for young people ages 18-22 working their way into society. Long-term support includes life-skill building, employment services and educational services.

Anchor House Foundation: Fund-raising arm of Anchor House which sponsors the annual Ride for Runaways. 609-278-9495.

Street Outreach: A program serving youth ages 10-21 that aims at street youth offering a variety of life-saving services, such as assistance finding safe housing, counseling, assistance for youth trying to get back into school, food pantry referrals, employment assistance and various other services.

School Outreach: A counselor is available to all Mercer County Junior High and High Schools to conduct individual, group and family counseling with students and their families. A counselor is also available for presentations, career days and community days.

Runaway Specialist: A counselor based in the Trenton Police Department who receives all youth missing person reports and provides referrals, aftercare, counseling and other services ongoing for a minimum of a year.

Angel's Wings: A facility offering emergency care for children from birth to 12.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Spanish

PUBLICATIONS
Informational brochures and annual reports

SPECIAL EVENTS
Ride for Runaways: Annual summer event in which bicyclists collect pledges for a 500-mile ride to help raise funds; monetary and other types of contributions are made by corporate sponsors and local businesses as well.
Cory Golis Scholarship Ride: Annual summer event in which bicyclists pay a small fee for a 20 or 50 mile bike ride to help raise funds for the Cory Golis Scholarship Fund.

SCHOLARSHIPS
Cory Golis/Anchor House Scholarship Fund is available annually to youth who have been involved at Anchor House and who are taking up a helping profession.

FOUNDED
1979

SUBJECT
EMERGENCY SERVICES
HOUSING
COUNSELING
SUPPORT GROUPS
ADVOCACY
CHILDREN AND YOUTH
SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
SPEAKERS

DATE MODIFIED
06-23-06