Teen Response began in 1992 as a weekly radio show program started by former Police Officer, John Keuffer. Mr. Keuffer was frustrated with the continued barrage of negative publicity about young people in our city and the country. Feeling the need to represent, highlight and focus on the positive aspects of youth and community life, Mr. Keuffer created the weekly program on WAIF 88.3FM to bring the good news to the forefront.

"Too often we go to social workers, therapists and psychiatrists to answer the problems presented in the youth population, Why don't we go to youth to solve their own community problems?" Mr. Keuffer asked.

In 1994, with the help of Cincinnati Pizza Icon Buddy LaRosa, Teen Response was formed as a 501[c][3] IRS charitable organization. Since that time, the program has served tens of thousands of kids from the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area, to Montana, New Mexico, and Australia.