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The Lighthouse Training Institute provides training and technical assistance across the country on independent living program development and a variety of child welfare and runaway and homeless youth (RHY) services topics. We are known nationally for our pioneering work in the independent living (since 1981) and transitional living (since 1990) fields and in assisting cities, counties and states in supporting transition services for older youth. Lighthouse Youth Services has also been providing services and training on treatment of sex offending youth for 20 years.

Trainings can take place in Cincinnati or at your site.

Training topics include:

Independent living program development, operations and evaluation.
Moving youth toward self-sufficiency: Getting the entire system involved in self-suffiency preparation
Transitional living program development, operations and evaluation
Starting and operating a shelter plus care program
Operating a basic center
Working with youth in transition with mental health issues
Working with teen moms in transition
Working with sex offenders in transition
Working with correctional system youth in transition
Helping foster parents to teach self-sufficiency skills
Preventing staff burnout in IL/TLPs

Information regarding services of the Lighthouse Training Institute may be obtained by emailing Mark Kroner, by telephone at (513) 487-7130, or by mail at:

Lighthouse Training Institute
401 E. McMillan
Cincinnati, OH 45206

Training and Technical Assistance has been provided for:

The National Resource Center for Youth Development
Casey Family Services
Daniel Memorial Inc.
National Governor’s Association
Hamilton County Ohio Children’s Services
Mid-Atlantic Network for Youth
Northwest Network for Youth
The Cleveland YWCA
Southern Ohio Regional Training Consortium
Sisters of Charity, Cleveland, Ohio
Lutheran Metropolitan Ministries
Youth Network Council
National Network for Youth
E.A.R.T.H. Shelter, Battle Creek, Michigan
CWLA National Youth Advisory Board
Southwest Ohio Foster Care Coalition
Vision Quest Philadelphia
Oklahoma Department of Children’s Services
Forward Steps, Denver, Colorado
Baltimore Homeless Coalition
Sojourner Care Network, Vinton Co., Ohio
Huckleberry House Shelter, Columbus Ohio
Clark County Children’s Services, Las Vegas
Ohio Association of Child Care Agencies
Public Children’s Services Association of Ohio
National Independent Living Association
Healthy Teen Network
Bellefaire/Jewish Children’s Bureau. Cleveland, Ohio
Juneau, Alaska Youth Services
Fairfield County Ohio Children’s Services
Montgomery County Ohio Children’s Services
Southwest Ohio Regional Training Center
Homeward Homeless Coalition, Richmond Virginia
Community Access Unlimited, Elizabeth, New Jersey
Butler County, Ohio Children’s Services
Association for the Advancement of Evidence-based Practice
Cincinnati Works
Oklahoma State Department of Mental Health
Project Self-Reliance, Cornville Arizona
Rise Above, Jackson, Mississippi
Whaley Children's Center, Flint, Michigan
Action Housing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Baby's First Home, New York, New York

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Announcements

Certified Foster Home Assessors Needed

Contact Jami Clarke at (513) 772-0848

Lighthouse Training Institute

Promoting the experience and expertise of Lighthouse Youth Services the Lighthouse Training Institute provides replication services, training, and consultation to the professional community in important issues regarding child welfare and juvenile justice.

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Learning about
Life Skills

Children in out of home care often miss out on critical opportunities to learn some of life’s most basic lessons – everything from how to make a friend to why those rented bowling shoes are wet. Lighthouse Youth Services is committed to assessing and training every youth in it’s out of home care programs in the development of individualized basic life skills. Every youth in these programs, 8 years and older, is monitored using the Ansell Casey Life Skills Assessment and follows a plan based on this assessment and the learning style of the youth. A number of best practice curricula are used based on the youth’s plan, the setting and the Lighthouse commitment that every child should master life skills necessary to become good citizens who act responsibly and are self-reliant.