Huckleberry House
Huckleberry House is a shelter for runaway and homeless teens located in San Francisco, California. It was founded in June 1967 by several churches and the San Francisco Foundation.
Coordinates: 37°46′17″N 122°26′32″W / 37.77139°N 122.44222°W
Huckleberry's for Runaways was founded at One Broderick St. in the Haight Ashbury District of San Francisco on June 28, l969 during the summer of love. It was funded by the San Francisco Foundation under John May with Glide Foundation as the fiduciary sponsor hiring the original two CoDirectors, Edward Larry Beggs and Barbara Brachman. Through the years it received additional grants from the federal government and in 1974 the U.S. Congress after hearings passed the National Runaway Act which decriminalized teenage runaway behavior and reallocated government funding from juvenile hall warehousing of runaways to non- incarcerating community agencies like Huckleberry's. By creating a viable alternative to juvenile hall detention and punishment for runaways, Congress was able to change the juvenile justice system to one that worked with runaways and their parents on a voluntary basis with face to face communication between runaways and their parents using the tools of family therapy counseling to resolve family conflicts. Much of the historical data about Huckleberry's is on file in the City of San Francisco special library collection at the main library at the Civic Center. This includes the actual correspondence by runaways their parents and the director Edward Larry Beggs. An out of print 1969 Ballantine Books paperback"Huckleberry's for Runaways" might still be available in used book stores accessible through the internet Currently Huckleberry's for Runaways is located at l292 Page St. in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, Calif.
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