Safe Sound Secure Youth Ministries

Youth Transport

Safe, Sound Secure Youth Ministries is a transport service dedicated to safely transporting struggling teens to a teen help provider (boarding school, treatment center, etc.).  We offer the parents peace of mindaffordable pricing as they go through this difficult time in their family’s life.  

Owner, Julio Sandoval, Indicted on Federal Charges

Owner of Safe Sound Secure Youth Ministries has been arrested after violating a protection order against a minor and arranging with the child’s mother to have him transported to Stockton, Missouri.

The minor child was restrained in handcuffs for approximately 27 hours, according to the unsealed indictment, while being driven by two associates of Safe Sound Secure Transport from Fresno, California to Stockton, Missouri.

The child was held in Stockton, Missouri for eight days until he was released into the custody of his father.

Agape Boarding School

Safe Sound and Secure Ministries currently lists their address as being based in Piedmont, Missouri, but documents on their website show their address as “12755 E 1410 Rd, Stockton, MO 65785.” This address places their location as more or less on the campus of Agape Boarding school.

According to SSSM’s Transport Health Form, health care services are provided by Level 4 Medical Professional Corp, located in Stockton, Missouri. Level 4 Medical is owned by David Smock who is awaiting trial after being charged with sex crimes in Dallas and Cedar Counties.

Safe Sound Secure Youth Ministries is a registered Non-Profit in Missouri. Amber Sandoval has been listed as a Vice President. Timas Araya has been listed as a director. Both use the same Stockton Address.

Timas Arya is or was a supervisor at Agape Boarding School and is originally from Dumas, TX

As of January, 2022, Safe Sound Secure Transport was registered to the address of 299 Wayne 459, Piedmont, Missouri, which is also home to ABM Ministries. Julio Sandoval, owner of Safe Sound Secure Youth Ministries and Safe Sound Secure Transport is also on the board of directors for ABM Ministries, along with Larry Musgrave and Reed Goodman.

ABM Ministries also goes by Lighthouse Christian Academy.

Steve Bozak, Educational Consultant

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Stephen G. Bozak M.A. has specialized in placing students into boarding schools and facilities for short and long term placement for over 30 years nationally. He personally visits boarding schools and programs all over the United States every year to evaluate and help match needs of the parent and child with a suitable placement.

For 27 years, Steve Bozak has worked in the field of educational consulting. According to his Linkedin, he focuses on Educational Consultant, Boarding School Placement, & troubled teens & young adults treatment. Bozak is a member of the IECA (Independent Educational Consultants Association). According to his website, Bozak’s company specializes in placing children with Attention Deficit Disorder, ADD with Hyperactivity, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, or learning disabilities.

Bozak has heavy affiliation with Agape Boarding School in Stockton, Missouri and is still mentioned on their website.

For an incomplete list of schools that Bozak has visited and written about, visit this page on his website.

According to Bozak’s website, his company helps find transports of unwilling kids, troubled teens, and at risk teens. One company that he has been affiliated with is New Start Transports, owned by Clinton Jace Hardy.