Host Homes receives no remuneration for their volunteers services. The natural family provides to the youths whenever financial assistance is required for food and other expenses. Host Homes families receive training and support from the Host Homes Program . Host home volunteers are not professional counselors or therapists. They are simply caring substitute parents who are there to listen and give support to a teenager who is experiencing a crisis.
Many youths have difficulties at home or at school that is the impetus to run away from home.
These youths may act out, skip school, withdraw, or show aggression towards their peers. There has been no short-term crisis respite for youth in crisis. The Host Homes Program empowers families with skills to manage a situation before it becomes a crisis. Helping the community reduce substance abuse, teen pregnancy and suicide. Often, youths that run away from home end up in inappropriate, unsafe living conditions.