Welcome!
The mission of WAHRS is to provide the best, most efficient, and effective services to runaway and homeless youth, including those who are pregnant and/or parenting.
WAHRS, through a cooperative, strategically organized system between private member agencies, provides programs that strengthen families, prevent family dissolution, promote self-sufficiency, and assure safe, stable, and supportive homes for youth, young parents and their children.
Click subject headings for more information or email Patricia Balke, Executive Director.
Oscar Walton, WAHRS Youth Representative
The WAHRS Youth Representative serves as a voice for youth within the organization and as an advocate on youth issues on the State and Federal levels. Oscar is a Peer Advocate for Pathfinders Runaway Program in Milwaukee. Since 2009, Oscar has worked to provide and improve services for Homeless and Troubled Youth. He recently graduated from Milwaukee Technical High School and is planning to attend the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.