OASIS center's basic center program provides emergency shelter, counseling services, and comprehensive support to eligible runaway and homeless youth under the age of 18. - the basic center program…

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded Oasis Center, Inc. $1.05 million on September 30, 2025, under the Basic Center Grant program (CFDA 93.623) to provide emergency shelter, counseling services, and comprehensive support to runaway and homeless youth under age 18 in Tennessee.

Oasis Center will deliver up to 21 days of emergency shelter, food, clothing, counseling, and health care referrals to youth who have left home without parental permission, been forced to leave home, or are otherwise homeless and at risk of contact with law enforcement or child welfare, mental health, and juvenile justice systems. The program emphasizes family reunification when safe and seeks to locate appropriate alternative placements when reunification is not feasible.

The award funds a three-year project period running through September 29, 2028. Oasis Center, a Nashville-based tax-exempt nonprofit established in 2005, has prior experience administering HHS runaway and homeless youth programs and operates multiple community-based social services addressing homelessness and at-risk youth throughout the Nashville area.

OASIS center's basic center program provides emergency shelter, counseling services, and comprehensive support to eligible runaway and homeless youth under the age of 18. - the basic center program (BCP) (CY) provides temporary shelter and counseling services to youth who have left home without permission of their parents or guardians, have been forced to leave home, or other homeless youth who might otherwise end up in the law enforcement or in the child welfare, mental health, or juvenile justice systems. Bcps work to establish or strengthen community-based programs that meet the immediate needs of runaway and homeless youth and their families. Bcps provide youth under 18 years of age with emergency shelter, food, clothing, counseling and referrals for health care. Bcps can provide up to 21 days of shelter for youth and seek to reunite young people with their families, whenever possible, or to locate appropriate alternative placements.