Youth Development Center
3603 Washington Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45229
Phone: (513) 221-1017
Fax: (513) 221-3817
Director: Karen Doggett
kdoggett@lys.org
The Youth Development Center (YDC) is a therapeutic community-based residential program for teenage boys who suffer from emotional or behavioral disorders or who have been unsuccessful in other out of home placements. Residents focus on developing age appropriate life skills as well as addressing issues regarding their emotional and behavioral well being. YDC makes every effort to involve families when they are available so that youth can work toward reunification or a sustained positive family relationship.
YDC is part of the Lighthouse continuum of care and as such full community based mental health services are available to all youth including diagnostic assessment, pharmacological management, community psychiatric and support treatment and behavioral health counseling and therapy. Youth in YDC currently in 6th through 12th grades are eligible to attend the Lighthouse Community School. Youth entering YDC from other Lighthouse programs such as foster care continue to receive services from the agency continuum that they were previously enrolled in – thus avoiding the disruption of services so often experienced when placement change occurs.
YDC also provides group and individual services for young men with a substantiated history of sexual offense. Services to this group are provided by certified sex offender therapists.
Admission Criteria:
1) 11-18 year old males
Admission Criteria for Sex Offender Program:
1) 12-18 years old
2) Male
3) Adjudicated and/or has substantiated sexual offense
New Beginnings
6124 Dryden Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45213
Phone: (513) 531-0060
Fax: (513) 531-0475
Director: Jenna Krzysiak
jkrzysiak@lys.org
New Beginnings is a therapeutic community-based residential program for teenage girls who are victims of sexual offense, who suffer from emotional or behavioral disorders or who have been unsuccessful in other out of home placements. New Beginnings residents focus on developing age appropriate life skills as well as addressing issues regarding their emotional and behavioral well being. The program makes every effort to involve families when they are available so that youth can work toward reunification or a sustained positive family relationship when appropriate. Services at New Beginnings are gender responsive, are shaped to acknowledge the unique needs of girls and to help girls achieve the capacity to make wise and healthy choices.
New Beginnings is part of the Lighthouse continuum of care and as such full community based mental health services are available to all youth including diagnostic assessment, pharmacological management, community psychiatric and support treatment and behavioral health counseling and therapy. Girls at New Beginnings currently in 6th through 12th grades are eligible to attend the Lighthouse Community School. Youth entering New Beginnings from other Lighthouse programs such as foster care continue to receive services from the agency continuum that they were previously enrolled in – thus avoiding the disruption of services so often experienced when placement change occurs.
Admission Criteria:
1) 11-18 years old
2) Female
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