'Le Refuge' is primarily intended to accommodate and offer social, medical, and psychological assistance to young adults from 18 to 25 years old who have been victims of homophobia and transphobia.
The association also offers young people who wish mediation actions to try to reconnect the broken links with the family.
The association is recognized as a public utility by decree of 16 August 2011, formally recognizing the essential character of 'Le refuge' as providing support to LGBT youth rejected by their family, and approves the national dimension of the fight against homophobia.
The Refuge is an association law 1901, subsidized by the State since 1 January 2007 and helps young people from all over France.
It also has five operational delegations managers who run temporary accommodation arrangements and psychological and social support to Paris, Montpellier, Lyon, Marseille and Toulouse and Lille four antennas, Nîmes, Saint-Denis-de-la-Reunion and Narbonne.