Approximately 1,000 juveniles — many of whom are in their middle-school years — are forced into the sex trade each year in Ohio. Lighthouse Sheakley Center for Youth Director John Keuffer discussed how to help the victims during an interview on WVXU.

Volunteers filled Lighthouse Community School in Madisonville on MLK Day 2016. They filled hygiene bags, put together no sew blankets and created cards. All will support Lighthouse efforts to help homeless youth find a place to call home.

“Meeting Miss Sallie and many of the other residents at St. Paul Village made me want to start getting more involved in the community. If we all had this positive attitude towards community service, we could do more than just change our community; we could change the world.”

Cincinnati ranks among the most compassionate cities in the U.S.

The students at Lighthouse Community School in Madisonville delivered Christmas early to residents of St. Paul Retirement Village in Madisonville.

Lighthouse President and CEO Bob Mecum says a simple mantra guides his work at Lighthouse Youth Services. "We help ourselves by helping others. We make ourselves stronger by helping others. We make our community stronger by helping others. We become a better person in so many ways by helping others, and that’s what makes this country great," he said.

Lighthouse Youth Services was honored to be chosen as one of the six finalists for Transform Cincinnati, an initiative co-founded by Richard Rosenthal and aimed at linking philanthropists to big ideas aimed at transforming Cincinnati for decades to come.

WLWT News 5 provided a Thanksgiving feast for the Lighthouse Sheakley Center for Youth on Monday, November 22. The same day WLWT News 5 Reporter Jennifer Schack told the story of the Sheakley Center and we work each day to make a difference. Thank you WLWT!

“Just because we’re teenagers doesn’t mean we can’t make a difference.”