Program areas at The Lighthouse
Family & Youth Programs (Lamp After Care & Summer) The Lighthouse hosted multiple youth programs and community events. After school programs for middle schoolers that focused on providing children with art, sports, social emotional learning, and homework help were held. There were also 6 week long sport programs such as soccer, baseball, basketball, flag football, ultimate frisbee, esports, and martial arts. Also community events such as Harvest Festival, Easter Festival, Winter Holiday Painting event, and Thanksgiving turkey giveaways. The Lighthouse also facilitated a couple of field trips that included bringing young students to local college campuses for tours and collegiate football games. In all, about 1,000 children, family members, and community members were served during this fiscal year.
Day Care - Education The Lighthouse holds a Star 4 Certificate and serves 194 students using the Creative Curriculum of Pennsylvania from 8:30 am to 2:45 pm. During the fiscal year 18 students were served from 3 pm to 5:30 pm in the before and aftercare programs. Our services run for 180 days and we are partners with Xiente and the SDP. Children's data and assessment are submitted in order to be in compliance with our partners. The assessments are Teaching Strategies Gold, ASQ's and SPM. The Lighthouse facilitates community events like Cultural Parade, Christmas Concert, Spring Concert, and Transitioning Ceremony. Students are served nutritionist hot meals like breakfast, lunch and snacks. A percentage of students that meet the age criteria transition to public, private, or charter schools kindergarten programs. The students that have attended the Lighthouse programs have shown well in their later education.