Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House

Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood house is a 103-year-old comprehensive social services organization based in East St. Louis, Illinois.

[2] The LBDNH programs address basic human needs by providing food; clothing and emergency help with medical, utility and rent expenses and school supplies.

Finally, the LBDNH works with other regional agencies to apply for grants, use funds effectively and efficiently and address needs region-wide to foster cooperation among organizations.

The original mission of the neighborhood house was serving Bohemian immigrants who came to East St. Louis in the early 1900s to work in National Stockyards.

Church services and Sunday School were held regularly, but from the beginning, the work sought to meet the social, physical and spiritual needs of the community.

In response to the rapidly growing programs, the Women's Home Missionary Society of Southern Illinois Conference in 1914 provided the funds for a new building at the comer of 9th and Winstanley.

In response to this growing need the Neighborhood House began offering additional programs and services, with the goal of "Empowering and Strengthening the Individuals and Families throughout the greater East St. Louis community."

It houses a Senior Services Program, Meals on Wheels and intermittently serve as a homeless resources center during time of extreme weather conditions.

Trinity Outreach Center is the location of LBDNH's Teen TeenREACH (Responsibility, Education, Achievement, Caring, and Hope), which provides youth activities during non-school hours and throughout the school year as well as during the summer through the use of six core components: The building houses a gymnasium, computer lab, activity areas, as well as administration space for youth supervisors case workers.