Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House

Neighborhood House has implemented a wide range of social services, economic and neighborhood development programs aimed at meeting the special needs of youth groups in the East St. Louis/ St. Clair County area.

The Comprehensive Community-Based Youth Service System provides 24-hour Crisis Intervention, Advocacy and Counseling to youth and their families in the Metro-East area. Youth Service Counselors respond to calls from the local police stations for youth who are experiencing problems at home. Through intensive counseling, the staff assist families in working through their problems. The program has been successful in keeping 97% of its families together.


Teen Reach - The Teen Reach Program also provides a variety of recreation/education and social development activities for children and youth in the community. Activities include arts and crafts, sports, tutoring and homework assistance, leadership training, field trips, conflict resolution and cultural arts. Over 500 children and youth participate annually in the summer and after-school activities, which are provided at four sites in the community.

Community Services is a “Community Organizing” program that provides staff support and resources in an effort to organize youth and parents to develop and operate programs for youth and to address major problems facing the youth in the greater East St. Louis area.

Disproportionate Minority Confinement Program - Provides staff support to St. Clair County Youth Coalition to plan and develop strategies to reduce the level of confinement of youth Neighborhood House acts as the Fiscal Agent for the St. Clair County Youth Coalition, which it is a member of. Funding is through the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission.

Redeploy Illinois Program - provides comprehensive evaluations to those eligible youth and provides evidence-based treatment alternatives in the least restrictive way possible to reduce the number of youth committed to the Department of Corrections (DOC) by 25% while using dollars saved to provide individualized services to address the needs of those youth and their families. Any juvenile offender who has not committed a class-X felony is eligible.

For More Information, please contact:

Lisa Graves at (618) 874-0777 ext 1113 or email lgraves@lessiebatesdavis.org