LightHouse

LightHouse "helping young men prepare for life"

LightHouse is a concept inspired by God through William H. Coibion Jr. and Samuel E. Harris, principal of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. JHS (“MLK”).

MLK, located in Del Paso Heights, is one of seven JHS in Sacramento’s Grant Joint Union High School District. MLK has vast racial diversity, with students from over thirty-two nations represented.

Poverty is the largest predictor of child abuse and neglect. Children in families with annual incomes below $15,000 are 22 times more likely to be abused or neglected than children in families with annual incomes $30,000 or more. It has been reported that 90% of children raised in extreme poverty will remain in poverty the remainder of their life.

Estimated annual MLK family household income is $13,000, which is extreme poverty in this nation.

Up to 90% of the students attending MLK are fatherless and suffer from abandonment, abuse, gang intimidation, drugs and other substance abuse.

72% of the population says fatherlessness is the most significant family or social problem facing America and 90% of Americans agree that “fathers make a unique contribution to children’s lives”, according to a Gallup Poll.

Approximately 38% of young people, 18 or younger, are living in a home without their
biological father.

It is further estimated that another 20% of those same aged youth have a dad but he in not engaged in their life.

70% or more of the adults in prison today came from being raised fatherless. Fatherless children are twice as likely to: drop out of school, have lower GPAs, lower college aspirations, and poorer attendance records than children living with two parents.

To learn more about the Vision and Mission of LightHouse, click here to Freedom Hall.

posted by LightHouse @ 7:20 AM