Sally Kate Winter Safe Place Week Celebration

WEST POINT.(WCBI)—Sally Kate Winters Family Services is having a week long celebration in honor of national safe place week.

The week is all about getting the message out about the services the safe place program offers the youth of a community.

The safe place program has nearly 20 thousand partnering businesses and community locations nation wide.

Heather Usry is the outreach coordinator and she says it’s a serious message they want to deliver but it’s important to get it out in a creative way.

” We also have other coordinated days but I would like to encourage everyone to join us this Friday we are having a fund raiser on Friday for friends of safe place Friday it’s at bully’s burgers and wings in Starkville on Russel street from four to eight,”said Usry.

Bully’s has agreed to donate a portion of there sales to the program.

The safe place program has helped more than 300 thousand youth since it began back in 1983.