LHS Family & Youth Services
2411 Seaman St.
Toledo, OH 43605
Phone: (419)693-1520
Fax: (419)693-3295
Mission Statement
As Christians we, LHS Family and Youth Services, Inc., recognize a continuing need for assistance, especially among families, youth and children. We feel inspired to do what lies within our power to strengthen the individual and family through care and treatment and in the abiding concern shared with residents, staff, and families.
About LHS Family & Youth Services
Lutheran Homes Society's ministry to children began in 1860 and continues today through LHS Family and Youth Services who specialize in the care and treatment of seriously emotionally disturbed (SED), high-risk, multi-need, difficult-to-manage children and youth in the least restrictive settings possible. LHS Family and Youth Services also specializes in working with children and youth with Asperger's Disorder at its new twenty-bed residential facility, LHS Maumee Youth Center for Asperger's Disorder, located south of Toledo, Ohio, in a wooded, rural setting with an on-grounds affiliated school.
Family & Youth Services has a full continuum of care within a seamless delivery system. This system includes intense community-based residential settings with staff to youth ratio never less than 1:2; independent living homes and sites; cognitive restructuring program for obsessive behaviors; Partners in Treatment Family Weekends; on-grounds classrooms for severe behavioral handicapped children; one-on-one tutoring; group and individual counseling.
Family & Youth Services works with children and youth ages 6 to 18-plus and is a member of the Ohio Association of Child Caring Agencies. Facilities are licensed by the Ohio Department of Human Services. The agency is certified in six different activity areas by the Ohio Department of Mental Health. Family & Youth Services maintains a no-eject no-reject policy, practices family-centered therapy where appropriate, and has a diverse clinical treatment team that includes a board certified pediatric and adolescent psychiatrist.
Outcomes that matter most are behavioral changes in children and youth that enable them to function productively and appropriately within their respective communities. Every level of our work is documented through a computerized case note system that connects all our facilities and field offices.
We have an array of service options available. In addition to our three intense facilities for multi-need youth, we continue to maintain a home for long term care, our Anthony Wayne home. As an alternative to adoption, we work with youth placed at the Anthony Wayne home from intake to independence. Our East Toledo home works with youth who do not represent a risk to themselves or others and who are either in transition or in need of additional evaluation to determine placement.
In addition to residential care, through the cooperative efforts of the City of Oregon Schools, Lucas County and LHS Family and Youth Services, we have established a school for youth who do not have an opportunity to pursue education in the current educational system. The school has been named by these youth and is called Maumee Bay Bright Star Academy.
