Lighthouse Youth Services
1501 Madison
Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
513-221-3350
Help Me Grow Program
1501 Madison Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
Phone: (513) 281-4769
Fax: (513) 475-5688
Director: Terri Betts (tbetts@lys.org)
This program provides central intake, support, and service coordination for families of infants and toddlers who are at risk for or are experiencing developmental delays.
Services are designed with the family's concerns and goals in mind and administered locally by county-based organizations. Staff members assist parents in helping their children grow and learn by facilitating their children's development and keeping them safe and healthy. Help Me Grow staff also connect families with other services in the community that will assist in their child's continuing development.
Admission Criteria:
1) 0 - 3 years old and/or pregnant women
Lighthouse Community School
6100 Desmond
Cincinnati, Ohio 45227
Phone: (513) 561-7888
Fax: (513) 561-7818
Director: Daniel Trujillo (dtrujillo@lys.org)
This is a community school that exists primarily to provide accredited academic services to students who participate in other Lighthouse programs. The community school takes into consideration the fact that Lighthouse clients typically do not respond well to traditional models.
Admission Criteria:
1) 6th-12th grade
2) 12-22 years old
3) Male or Female
Home Based Individual or Family Therapy
1501 Madison Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
Phone: (513) 221-3415
Fax: (513) 475-5688
Director: Michele McCorkle (mmccorkle@lys.org)
Home Based Individual or Family Therapy is provided by Master’s level therapists. This service provides intensive family therapy for families of youth who are being stepped down from residential or foster care to a natural family home, youth transitioning into independent living programs, or for youth in the home at risk of being placed out of the home. This in-home service is intensive and individualized, utilizing components of Multi-Systemic Therapy and Brief Strategic Focused Family Therapy. The services are offered within the context of the family’s culture and focus on strengthening individuals and families.
Admission Criteria:
1) No age limit
2) Male or Female
REAL Dads (Fatherhood Initiative)
6930 Montgomery Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45236
Phone: (513) 891-3347
Fax: (513) 891-3353
Director: Calvin Williams (clwilliams@lys.org)
The REAL Dads program is a collaborative effort with Hamilton County JFS. The project addresses deficits in parenting, employment, and life skills of young men in arrears on child support payments. Life coaches and clients develop individualized plans to become compliant with child support orders, become self-sustaining, and increase parenting skills.
Admission Criteria:
1) 17-24 years old
2) Males in arrears on child support payments
Individualized Docket Services (LIDS)
1501 Madison Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
Phone: (513) 221-3350
Fax: (513) 475-5688
Director: Norman Townsel (ntownsel@lys.org)
Lighthouse therapists and case managers provide intensive services in client homes, communities, schools, and other agencies during traditional and non-traditional hours including weekends. Lighthouse Individualized Docket Services' system of care and treatment is child/youth centered, family focused, home/community based, and culturally competent. The program helps clients and their families identify and utilize their strengths and assets as well as community resources and supports.
Admission Criteria:
1) 12-18 years old
2) Male or Female
3) Live at home with legal guardian
4) Must have been diagnosed with a significant mental health disorders and may be dual diagnosed.
Work Appreciation for Youth (WAY)
1501 Madison Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
Phone: (513) 221-3350
Fax: (513) 475-5688
Worksite:
Essex Studios, Suite #154
490 E. McMillan Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
Phone: (513) 221-0029; Fax: (513) 221-4645
Director: Shannon Kiniyalocts (skiniyalocts@lys.org)
Lighthouse Youth Services (WAY) Work Appreciation for Youth is the replication of a best practice model from the Children's Village in Dobbs Ferry, New York. The WAY program is a 5 year professional mentoring program that improves the employment rates and self-sufficiency of youth in and out of home care by matching them with supportive life coaches to provide skill development and assistance as they transition into adulthood.
An individualized service plan is developed with the child and the treatment team to determine needs and establish goals. (i.e. achieving employment and related life skills, completing an educational program, saving and planning for the future, and lowering rates of recidivism into residential care.
Admission Criteria:
1) 12-16 years old
2) Male or Female
3) Must have an SED diagnosis
4) Youth must be in or be discharging from out-of-home care
5) Youth and their guardians must agree to full participation and sign a yearly commitment for up to 5 years.
Community Wrap Around Services
1501 Madison Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
Phone: (513) 221-3350
Fax: (513) 475-5688
Director: Cheri Wilson (cwilson@lys.org)
Criteria for admission include any children who are being discharged from a substitute care program and for whom the treatment individual aides who can provide support and supervision for children to assist them in being successful in the least restrictive environment. The service can provide family support or individual aid for youth in foster, group homes or the independent living program. Aides will provide any form of assistance that will help youth in achieving goals on their Individualized Service Plans. These Aides are supervised by the Program Director of Wrap Around Servicesteam believes support services are necessary to facilitate the transition to a lesser restrictive placement. In addition, families can
Admission Criteria:
1) 0-24 years old
2) Male or Female
School Wrap Around Services
1501 Madison Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
Phone: (513) 221-3350
Fax: (513) 475-5688
Director: Cheri Wilson (cwilson@lys.org)
Through this service, Lighthouse provides an individual aide to students needing extra support in school. The individual aide enhances the skills needed by each student to improve their behavior so that they can be safe and succeed in the classroom without additional support. This service is used often to either transition youth from partial hospitalization programs back to their public schools or to work with youth at risk of being placed in a partial hospitalization program.
The staff will also assist those students with educational support and encouragement by providing extra individualized assistance to improve academic outcomes. The Lighthouse School Wrap Around Services has a specific team of trained staff capable of helping to enhance the educational progress of these students. These individual aides are supervised by the Education Specialist.
Admission Criteria:
1) 0-24 years old
2) Male or Female
Gender Responsive Therapy for Girls
1501 Madison Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
Phone: (513) 221-3350
Fax: (513) 475-5688
Director: Patty LoVaglio (plovaglio@lys.org)
A specialized team of therapists offers home based services within the social context of each girl’s life, her relationships, the systems she encounters and society. Sexual abuse, rape, physical/emotional abuse and other childhood trauma deeply affect many parts of a teenaged girl's life. Running away, sexual promiscuity, suicidal ideation and aggression are often their only coping mechanisms.
Licensed clinicians for the Lighthouse Gender Responsive Services for Girls have demonstrated expertise in working with adolescent girls who have been victims of sexual abuse, physical assault and/or witnessed homicide, domestic violence or other childhood trauma. Clinicians specialize in helping girls manage symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Bi-polar, Borderline Personality Disorders and Depression.
Services include individual or family therapy, mother/daughter therapy, group therapy and trauma survivor’s group therapy.
Admissions to these services can be gained by calling Patty Lovaglio, LSW Program Director at 487-7112 or Debbie Bennett, MS, LSW, LICDC at 487-7178.
Youth Development Center
3603 Washington Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45229
Phone: (513) 221-1017
Fax: (513) 221-3817
Director: Karen Doggett (kdoggett@lys.org)
This is a therapeutic community-based residential program for teenage boys who suffer from emotional, behavioral, and other mental health programs. Residents are taught skills that will enable them to resolve family and personal issues. A psychiatrist, social workers, and well-trained staff help youth with their problems and challenges.
YDC also provides outpatient/group and individual services for sex offending males with services provided by certified sex offender therapists.
Admission Criteria:
1) 11-18 year old males
Admission Criteria for Sex Offending Program:
1) 12-18 years old
2) Male
3) Adjudicated and/or has substantiated sexual offense
4) Is a resident in LYS out of home care program or group home
New Beginnings
6124 Dryden Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45213
Phone: (513) 531-0060
Fax: (513) 531-0475
Director: Karen Doggett (kdoggett@lys.org)
This is a therapeutic community-based residential program for teenage girls who have often been unsuccessful in other out-of-home placements. Typically clients are victims of physical and sexual abuse and/or may suffer from emotional and mental health problems. A psychiatrist, social workers, and well-trained staff help youth with their problems and challenges. New Beginnings also offers a variety of outpatient/community based services for gender specific needs.
Admission Criteria:
1) 11-18 years old
2) Female
Paint Creek Youth Center
1071 Tong Hollow Road
PO Box 586
Bainbridge, Ohio 45612
Phone: (740) 634-3094
Fax: (740) 634-3047
1-800-569-7682
Director: Renee Hagan (rhagan@lys.org)
This program provides intensive residential rehabilitation services to adolescent males who have been adjudicated delinquent for the commission of felony 1 and felony 2 offenses.
Admission Criteria:
1) 15-18 years old
2) Male
3) Felony offenders without history of serious mental health issues
Dayton Day Treatment
201 Riverside Drive #3-A
Dayton, Ohio 45402
Phone: (937) 586-0435
Fax: (937) 586-0441
Director: Ric Gulley (rgulley@lys.org)
This program provides structured aftercare services for boys returning to Montgomery County from Lighthouse Youth Center at Paint Creek. In addition to serving boys from Paint Creek, the Day Tratment program provides structured treatment, including partial hospitalization services, to boys referred directly from the Ohio Department of Youth Services and Montgomery County Juvenile Court.
Admission Criteria:
1) 16-18 years old (felony)
2) 13-18 years old (sex offender)
3) Male
Youth Re-Entry Program
6930 Montgomery Road
iCincinnati, Ohio 45236
Phone: (513) 891-3347
Fax: (513) 891-3353
Director: John Kelly (jkelly@lys.org)
The program seeks to help young people returning to the community obtain employment and continue education. Case managers and mentors provide comprehensive transition services to clients and their families beginning up to 90 days prior to release and continuing for up to 3 months prior to discharge from parole.
Goals of the program are to increase job skills, enter and remain in the labor force, decrease recidivism and the likelihood that the youth will become adult offenders, and increase self-sufficiency.
Admission Criteria:
1) 15-20 years old
2) Male or Female
3) Parolees who reside in Hamilton County or returning to Hamilton County
4) Must have a HS diploma/GED or be enrolled in a GED program.
Runaway & Homeless Youth Division
Youth Crisis Center
3330 Jefferson Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45220
Phone: (513) 961-4080
Fax: (513) 961-6578
1-800-474-4129
Director: Geoffrey Hollenbach (ghollenbach@lys.org)
This is an emergency shelter and hotline service that provides crisis intervention and a safe haven for young people when their living situation is disrupted or endangered. The Youth Crisis Center is the only facility in the Cincinnati area where unaccompanied youth, ten through seventeen years old and homeless 18 year olds who are full time students, can seek shelter and safety. The Youth Crisis Center is a twenty bed emergency facility open twenty-four hours a day, 365 days per year. The Youth Crisis Center also operates a twenty-four hour youth crisis line at 513-961-4080.
Admission Criteria:
1) 10-17 years old (18 yr old FT students may enter)
2) Male or Female
Youth Outreach Program
Anthony House
2728 Glendora Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45209
Phone: (513) 569-9500
Director: Geoffrey Hollenbach (ghollenbach@lys.org)
Staff members from the Youth Outreach Program identify young people who are homeless and/or have a variety of basic unmet needs. Youth outreach staff provide clients with assistance in finding employment, appropriate educational and vocational opportunities, housing, mental health and drug intervention serivces, HIV awareness training, self-sufficiency training, etc. In addition, this program staffs a drop in center in Corryville called the Anthony House.
Admission Criteria:
1) Up to 24 years old
Transitional Living and Shelter Plus Care
3330 Jefferson Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45220
Phone: (513) 861-1111
Fax: (513) 861-8803
1-800-474-4133
Director: Regina Woods (rwoods@lys.org)
The Transitional Living program offers housing and associated self-sufficiency skills to older homeless young men and women including young women and young men with children. Lighthouse staff supports clients through a variety of care management services.
Shelter Plus Care provides housing services and case management services to older youth and families with mental health or chemical dependency issues.
Admission Criteria: (TLP)
1) 18-22 years old
2) Homeless male/female or family
Admission Criteria: (S+C)
1) 18-25 years old
2) Homeless male/female or family with alcohol or mental health issues
Independent Living Program
1501 Madison Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
Phone: (513) 221-3350
Fax: (513) 475-5689
Director: Bonita Campbell (bcampbell@lys.org)
Independent Living Program provides supervised apartment living for youth who are aging out of foster care and group home services without having a suitable or appropriate living arrangement. It offers an opportunity for the youth to experience apartment living with the guidance of Independent Living staff as a step toward self-sufficiency.
Admission Criteria:
1) 16-19 years old
2) Male or Female
Emancipated Youth Program
1501 Madison Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
Phone: (513) 221-3350
Fax: (513) 475-5689
Director: Bonita Campbell (bcampbell@lys.org)
The Emancipated Youth Program provides supervised apartment living and aftercare services for youth 18 and over who have been discharged from HCJFS custody.
Admission Criteria:
1) Male or Female
2) 18+ Years old
Transitional Youth Program
1501 Madison Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
Phone: (513) 221-3350
Fax: (513) 475-5689
Director: Bonita Campbell (bcampbell@lys.org)
The Transitional Youth Program provides supervised apartment living and services for youth with mental health issues who are in need of adult case management services.
Admission Criteria:
1) Male or Female
2) 16-21 years old
Therapeutic Foster Care & Adoption
11 Triangle Park Drive Suite 1101
Cincinnati, Ohio 45246
Phone: (513) 772-0848
Fax: (513) 772-0892
Recruitment Only: (513) 487-7135
Director: Jami Clarke (jclarke@lys.org)
This program provides foster care and adoption services for abused and neglected children who are referred by local children service agencies and juvenile courts. Emergency referrals and placements accepted.
Admission Criteria:
1) Infant - 18 years old
2) Male or Female