Lighthouse
New Beginnings inc.
Women's Transitional Housing & Recovery Services
WHERE WOMEN ARE FREED TO BE
FREE
Our Core Values
Compassion
Providing care with empathy and kindness, especially for residents facing difficult life circumstances.
Dignity & Respect
Honoring each resident's worth, background, and individuality.
Safety & Security
Creating a physically and emotionally safe environment where residents feel protected and supported.
Equity & Inclusion
Ensuring fair treatment and embracing diversity in all forms.
Empowerment
Encouraging residents to grow, heal, and reach their full potential through support and opportunity. servant leadership, mindfulness, and celebration of life.
We Serve a diverse group of women.
About Us
Who We Are
Lighthouse New Beginnings Inc. (LNBI) is a faith-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping women rebuild their lives through safe transitional housing, compassionate support, and comprehensive recovery services. We serve women overcoming substance use, mental health challenges, and reentry after incarceration who are ready for a fresh start. By providing a stable foundation and a supportive community, LNBI empowers women to heal, grow, and build brighter futures.
Our Mission
Our mission is to equip women with the tools, stability, and support needed to achieve permanent housing, sustained recovery, and economic independence.
LNBI exists to break cycles of homelessness, trauma, and addiction by providing:
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Safe structured transitional housing
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Evidence-based clinical services
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Comprehensive case management
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Workforce and life-skills development
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Spiritual care
Our Vision
Healing Hearts, Changing Stories A refuge for women seeking healing, growth, and a life beyond addiction and mental health struggles—a place where hope takes root and Guiding women toward lasting recovery, resilience, and a renewed sense of self-worth— because every story deserves a new beginning.
How We Help
Residential Housing
Counseling
Comprehensive Life Skills Training
Referrals
Case Management
A Statement From Our Founder
Ileasia F. Handy LMSW, CADC
In my work as a licensed social (worker and addiction counselor, I sit with women who are trying, women who have fought through things most women will never have to imagine. Some deal with abuse, addiction, mental health crises, incarceration, losing their children, and the stigma towards women who struggles with above issues etc. However, they have decided to change their lives, they show up to treatment, they do the groups, they do the hard inner work that nobody sees and then the program ends and there is nothing out there for them. No safe place to go, no bridge between where they were and where they are trying to get to, just a discharge date and a system that considers their job is done. I have watched women walk out of treatment into the same streets, the same relationships, the same environments that brought them to crisis in the
first place not because they gave up but because we did not build anything sturdy enough to hold them while they healed. Tragically, I have known women who lost all hope because they had no support, and they paid for this systemic gap with their lives. I have also watched this happen in my own family. A close relative went through treatment and came out the other side with nothing to land on. That experience made professional what had already become personal it confirmed what I already knew from years of social work, this gap is not an accident, it is a pattern and patterns do not change by themselves.
Every woman I have worked with who did not make it who went back, who relapsed, who lost custody, who ended up back in the system, I cannot say it was because she did not try, I can say it was because we did not have enough to offer her when she needed it most. Lighthouse New Beginnings is my answer to that, not a theory, not a concept, something I built because the women I work with deserve it and need it to exist.
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WHERE WOMEN ARE FREED TO BE FREE
Our program integrates clinical services through referrals, case management, life-skills development, and faith-based support to promote long-term stability and community reintegration.
