Palm Beach County · 501(c)(3)

Sometimes just one person can make the difference.

LightHouse PBC walks with women in the commercial sex trade in our own back yard. Laundromat by laundromat, counseling hour by counseling hour, until she has a way out and someone to call.

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Shining light. Bringing hope. Serving survivors since 2010 Every gift tax deductible

100+ Survivors supported

14 Women sheltered

2010 Serving Palm Beach County

Weekly Laundromat outreach

Statistically, one percent of women being sex trafficked ever escape.

We refuse to accept that number. Everything we do is built to raise it: showing up where she already is, staying long enough to be trusted, and having somewhere real for her to go on the day she decides she is done.

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Who we are

Shining light. Bringing hope. Right here in our own county.

LightHouse PBC is a Palm Beach County 501(c)(3) working with adult survivors of sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. Most resources in this space are aimed at minors or at international trafficking. Adults here at home, and the women who have aged out of other programs, are the ones nobody was serving. So we do.

We started in 2010 as Hepzibah House, a Hebrew word meaning "I delight in her." The name was hard to spell and harder to say, so in 2021 we became LightHouse Palm Beach County. The work never changed.

Pro bono mental health counseling and trauma therapy
Weekly street level outreach at local laundromats
A diversion program that addresses both supply and demand
Training that helps clinicians and police spot a victim
Co-founders of Sharing One Love PBC, a 20+ organization consortium

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A line of people standing shoulder to shoulder with their hands raised and joined against a sunset sky — No one gets out alone.

What we do

Four ways we serve survivors

Outreach, diversion, therapy and education. Each one reaches her at a different point, and together they add up to a way out.

01 · Outreach

Pop-Up at the Laundromat

Every week we set up at laundromats along the Federal and Dixie Highway corridor with a shade tent, camp chairs, refreshments, toiletries, Narcan, clothing, detergent and quarters. And cut flowers, because we want her to know she is worth the extra effort.

Our signs say it plainly: if you are a woman living a life you never wanted to live, in a place you never wanted to be, we will do your laundry for you. The point is relationship. When she decides this life is not working, she has a face and a phone number. We can usually get her into detox that same day.

JohnSchoolPBC

Very few strategies address both supply and demand in sex trafficking. A John School is one of them. It is a diversion program for people arrested on misdemeanor prostitution charges, buyers and sellers, in separate classes.

Complete the class, get STI testing, pay the court fees, and the charge comes off the record. Buyers pay tuition, sellers are scholarshipped, and that tuition funds the rest of our work. Classes run in English and Spanish.

Counseling and case management

Pro bono trauma therapy, therapeutic groups, career counseling, resume building and practical case management for women coming out of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.

The goal is not just safety. It is independence: recovering from powerlessness, restoring dignity and identity, and being released into a life of purpose and productivity.

Awareness and professional training

Victims almost never identify themselves as victims. So we train the people most likely to be in the room with one: medical and mental health providers, law enforcement, churches, schools and universities. We offer CEUs to clinicians.

We also helped change Florida law on human trafficking, and we help prevent our own young people from being tricked, trapped and exploited.

There is a way in for everyone

You do not have to be a therapist or an investigator. Some of the most important work here is a bag of quarters, an hour on a Saturday, or a standing monthly gift that lets us plan past the end of the month.

Give

Make a donation

Every dollar goes into outreach supplies, counseling hours, emergency detox and the housing fund. Give once or set it to repeat. All gifts are tax deductible under 501(c)(3).

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Monthly

Become a Home Town Hero

Our 1% Campaign. Give one percent a month toward opening a safe house. One percent of your gross, your net, or even your utility bill. You pick the number.

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Volunteer

Give your Saturday

Pop-Up teams, academic and career mentors, event help and admin support. Training and a background check are provided. Court ordered and school service hours welcome.

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Business

Sponsor the work

Laundromats, auto shops, restaurants and clinics already back us with discounted goods, services or a share of income. At $50 a month or more your logo goes on this site.

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Attend

Come to the Barn Dance

Our 10th Annual Benefit Barn and Line Dance is Saturday, October 24. Live music, line dancing, a chili cook-off and an auction. Bring everybody.

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Legacy

Leave a legacy gift

Name LightHouse PBC in your will, trust, retirement account or life insurance policy and keep this work going for the women who come after you.

Legacy giving

Our big dream

A safe house of our own

When a woman escapes a trafficker, she usually escapes with nothing but the clothes she is wearing. Safety has to come first, because nothing else can be worked on until it does.

No family to turn to. Often family was part of the problem, creating the vulnerability that landed her there.
No friends to fall back on. Traffickers isolate deliberately. Other options are a threat to the operation.
No way to get hired. Traffickers confiscate social security cards. Add employment gaps, no references, no resume, nothing to wear to an interview.
Life skill deficits. The skills most of us were taught at home were never taught to her.
PTSD. Trauma from the trafficking on top of complex trauma from childhood makes it hard to sleep, focus or self-regulate, let alone hold a job.
Addiction. Traffickers routinely facilitate drug addiction, because an addicted woman is easier to control.

We ran a five bed safe house from 2013 to 2018 and housed 14 women. We can do it again. A full program runs 12 to 18 months: therapy, life and job skills, support, and a graduated return to adulthood with all its responsibilities.

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Two people arm in arm and smiling as they line dance together at a LightHouse PBC community fundraiser — Community is the whole strategy.

Saturday, October 24 · 5 to 8 PM

10th Annual Benefit Barn & Line Dance

Kick up your boots for a purpose. Live music, line dancing, a chili cook-off and an auction with some genuinely good items.

Your ticket funds laundromat outreach, trauma informed counseling, safe housing and mentoring for survivors across Palm Beach County. Come eat, dance, bid, and stand with the women choosing a new path.

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A room full of guests line dancing in front of a barn backdrop at the 2025 LightHouse PBC Barn Dance

Guests dancing in a line on the floor while a band plays on the barn stage

Volunteers laughing together while serving chili from warming trays at the chili cook-off

Four guests in cowboy hats posing together in front of the barn photo backdrop

Guests in western hats talking in small groups beside the photo backdrop

Becky Dymond holding a microphone and raising an award on stage at the Barn Dance

Becky Dymond, founder and executive director of LightHouse PBC, smiling outdoors

Our founder

It started as a daydream in 2008

If you will risk for this population, I will meet you every step of the way.

The answer Becky got when she said she could not afford it

Becky Dymond heard a modern day abolitionist describe a home for women rescued out of sex trafficking, and started picturing a nearby horse farm turned into something similar. The dream sat in the background while she finished her Master of Science in Counseling Psychology, became recording secretary for the Palm Beach County Human Trafficking Coalition, opened a private practice, and searched for anyone locally working with adult survivors.

There was no one. So in the fall of 2010, when the very farm she had pictured came up for sale with an out building that would make a perfect counseling office, she stopped waiting. Every practical objection got answered in an unexpected way. A benefit barn dance returned five times its investment. Business advisers appeared. Federal nonprofit status was approved in under a month.

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Sponsors and partners

Local businesses who show up

Laundromats who let us set up in their parking lot. Shops and restaurants who discount, donate or give a share of income. We would not be able to do this without them.

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She is one person away from a different life.

That person can be you. Give, volunteer, sponsor, or just come to the Barn Dance and find out what this is. Every single one of those counts.

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Questions? Call Becky at 561-386-0031 or email Becky@LightHousePBC.org