Lighthouse Youth & Family Services

Cincinnati Gives Challenge participant; donate here: www.cincinnatigives.org/Lighthouseyfs

ESTABLISHED: 1969

MISSION: Empower young people and families to succeed through a continuum of care that promotes healing and growth.

SERVING OUR COMMUNITY: Lighthouse Youth & Family Services provides a range of trauma-informed services to help young people ages 0– 24 and their families heal and grow. Each one receives individualized care and unconditional support to help them thrive and reach their full potential.

Lighthouse provides:
• The only local emergency shelter for teens.
• Mental and behavioral health care.
• Foster care and adoption.
• Residential treatment.
• OhioRISE, a program focused on keeping more children and families together by creating new access to in-home and community-based services.
• Services to help youth involved in the juvenile justice system succeed by staying crime-free, achieve academically, and get and keep jobs.
• Street outreach and resource center for homeless youth.
• Shelter, housing, and life skills training for young people ages 17–24 experiencing homelessness.

LEADERSHIP
Paul Haffner, President & CEO
Thuy Kolik, Vice President & Chief Financial Officer/Chief Administrative Officer
Bonita Campbell, Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
Jessica Wabler, Vice President & Chief Development Officer
Board Chair: Debbie White Richardson
Board Members: Doug Bierer, Chris Bolling, Marvin Butts, Steve Campbell, Bobby Cave, Elena Comeaux, Nicole Dowdell, Roni Hyman, Allison Kahn, Kick Lee, Santoshi Mahendra, Byron McCauley, Kareem Moncree-Moffett, Barry Morris, Lisa O’Brien, Kenneth Parker, Stephen Peterson, Bob Rich, Greg Rouan, Amber Simpson, Tamie Sullivan, Amy Susskind, Bob Zepf

OTHER WAYS TO HELP
• Light up the holiday season for young people in need by joining the Lighthouse Happy Holidays Gift Drive.
• Provide a meal to a Lighthouse shelter and remind the young people living there someone cares. Meals can be prepared and served at the shelter, made at home and dropped off, or ordered and delivered.
• Give an experience. Donate tickets to sporting events, performances, museums, or amusement parks.
• Host a donation drive for much-needed items, such as ethnic hair care products, personal care products, baby care essentials, and home cleaning supplies.
• Volunteer to help plan one of our special events.

401 E. McMillan St.
Cincinnati, OH 45206
(513) 221-3350
www.lys.org