Living In Safe Alternatives, is a private, non-profit organization that has served the needs of abused, abandoned, adjudicated, and neglected youth for 40 years. Click here for more information about us.

BEACON HOUSE | PLAINVILLE GROUP HOME | SAIL | Community Based Life Skills | Stitch Together

LISA Inc. Programs

L.I.S.A., Inc. operates two group homes, Beacon House (est. 1976), an eight bed facility in Wolcott and a ten bed home in Plainville (est. 1970). Each home is licensed by the Department of Children and Families (DCF) to provide group home care to abused and neglected adolescent girls between the ages of 12 and 21. Beacon House originally was located in Waterbury on Pine Street, but relocated in 1993 to a newly constructed facility located in a residential neighborhood in Wolcott.

L.I.S.A., Inc. also owns seven condominiums in Bristol, CT. These condominiums house residents who participate in our transitional living program, Supervised Apartments in Independent Living (S.A.I.L.). The residents of our group homes and other foster youth are provided with a program that affords them the ability to become established and accomplish that crucial transition to independent living. This is accomplished by providing the youth a hands on environment for them to learn and practice the independent living skills they will require when leaving the foster care system.

Our agency also operates The Community Based Life Skills Program in Waterbury (est. 1989). This is a life skills program for adolescents ages 16 – 18, male and female, committed to the state, who life in independent living programs, foster homes or on their own. The purpose of this program is to provide training in the life skills necessary for young adults to live and function independently.

Seeing a need for vocational training the agency developed an onsite vocational training program that provides young women with the opportunities to learn valuable employment skills in a hands-on format. The program is designed around knitting and selling knitting goods online. Participants learn to knit and produce knitted items for sale, market their products, package and ship customer orders, and provide customer service. The curriculum used in this program covers job skills and career planning, with an emphasis toward completing high school and going on to higher education. The topics covered are informative and essential for these young women so that they are equipped to enter the competitive job market.