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Adam’s Place: A home for troubled teens E-mail
250 people went to Vancleave Middle School in Mississippi for a meeting with the board members of a home for troubled teenagers-- Adam’s Place. The home was actually named after the son of Stacey Yarbrough, a Montgomery, Alabama youth missionary. Her relationship with her son resulted in Adam’s Place.

"I never thought it would be so hard. When God laid it on my heart, I thought, God, are you sure? Me?'" said Yarbrough.

The project has actually been studied and slowly developed for more than a decade, but the progress in the past three months has been great. Jennifer Brochard, a board member of Adam’s Place, remarked that the organization is beginning at the very bottom but slowly reaching higher levels.

"We're still waiting on land, and still doing our fundraising for everything," she said.

Presently, the group is filing for 501 (C) tax status because with it they will become a non-profit organization.

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Adam’s Place has already amassed $7,000 but in order to buy the proposed site and start building, they must reach at least $30,000. The site itself is located around seven miles north of Vancleave.

The State Senator, Tommy Moffat, was introduced to the group and wanted to help out if the state could be of any assistance to the project. He said, "I think what they are trying to do is a very good thing."

Their aim is to start work on the site by March 2008 to be able to open the facility by March 2009. The Adam’s Place mission statement mentions that the facility will be on 182 acres wherein 40 acres of this land will be for a troubled teen boot camp. “Nana’s House,” a home for pregnant teenagers, will also be created. The director of this house, Brochard, is hoping for a facility that will “show the girls how to be a mother.”

The mission statement also describes the programs that will be implemented in Adam’s Place. They will be designed to keep teens from drug-use while utilizing “scared straight” techniques with the teens in order to correct behavior.

By the time the home is completed, it will be able to house up to 450 teens at any given time. Yarbrough said that of these 450, 100 can be accommodated in the boot camp, while 300 will be able to live in the home full-time as 25 pregnant teens can stay in Nana’s House.

IMPORTANT UPDATE!

Recently, Stacey Yarbrough has been arrested by the Pascagoula Police under the charge of felony false pretense. Police have shared that Yarbrough has been accused of failing to repay a $6,000 loan from a local business in Pascagoula which she herself requested for the charity. At present, she has been released from police custody on bond.

 
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