Oasis Center

In 1969, a group of young lawyers came together to establish the ?Rap House,? a simple community center for runaway teens and youth struggling with addictions. Over fifty years later, the ?Rap House? has evolved into Oasis Center, where almost 3,000 youth and families turn for help and direct support every year. Oasis Center provides a wide range of opportunities that reflect the diverse needs of youth and their families, from crisis intervention to youth leadership and community engagement to college and career access.

Oasis Center has evolved over the past five decades into one of the nation's leading youth-serving organizations, offering safety and support to Nashville's most vulnerable and disconnected youth, while seeking to also teach young people how to transform the conditions that create problems for them in the first place. We believe that Nashville should be and can be a model community where all young people enter adulthood connected with positive social support systems and prepared for productive and fulfilling lives. We embrace our responsibility to change the odds in our community that will allow more young people to thrive and move into a healthy adulthood.

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