Our Services

LSS Services for Older Adults
Our Services for Older Adults include the Lutheran Home of Southbury, Conn., Lutheran Healthcare Center, Worcester, Mass. Emmanuel House Residence Assisted Living in Brockton, Mass., and Luther Manor in Middletown, Conn., offer assisted living. Luther Ridge and Emanuel Village in Worcester, Mass., also offer independent living for low income elderly and moderately disabled adults.

LSS Services for New Americans
Services for New Americans, which include refugees and immigrants, continue a long tradition of the Lutheran church caring for the strangers among us. LSS programs in West Springfield, Westfield and Worcester, Mass., and Concord, N.H., include resettlement, employment assistance, job training, language, citizenship education, and immigration legal assistance. The latter includes the Human Trafficking Legal Assistance Center, the only program providing comprehensive legal and social services to noncitizen survivors in Massachusetts. 

LSS Children and Family Services
LSS services for Children and Families include a rapidly growing Intensive Foster Care and Therapeutic Foster Care programs for at risk children from toddlerhood through age 18 in Concord, N.H., and Brockton, Mass. The Unaccompanied Refugee Minors program is the only program in New England that supports refugee children exclusively by placing them in safe and loving foster homes. Adolescents in need of residential support are served at the Greentree Boys Homes in Arlington. The Ruth House in Brockton, Mass., and the Florence House in Worcester, Mass., serve parenting teen mothers and their children who are homeless. Both programs also offer a support program for young fathers.

LSS Disability Services
Adults with disabilities are served by LSS in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, in both residential and day programs. Twenty-four residences in and around Auburn/Lewiston and Portland, Maine, support for several dozen individuals, including some with mental illness and, for the first time, clients who are deaf. In Massachusetts, the David P. Forsberg Independent Living Program in Worcester supports 50 adults with disabilities who are able to live on their own. There is also a residential program in Worcester for adult men who require full-time staff support. In Concord, N.H., a day program assists adults who are disabled to participate in meaningful work and volunteer activities. LSS In-Home Care in N.H. is a groundbreaking program that enables adults with disabilities to remain in their home rather than going into nursing homes by employing personal caregivers of the individuals' choice. Lutheran Creative Living, Andover, Mass., is a new residential support program in which eight adults live in private apartments and share communal living space.

LSS In-Home Care Services
LSS In-Home Care is a rapidly growing program that fills the increasing demand for services that allow adults to “age in place” and avoid going into nursing homes or other care facilities. This consumer directed program was pioneered in New Hampshire in 2003. Today, more than 600 older, disabled and chronically ill adults are served in their homes by caregivers of their choosing. LSS In-Home Care has now expanded into Connecticut.

LSS Good News Garage
The LSS Good News Garage is a nationally recognized and groundbreaking program established in 1996 to help qualified low income families break the cycle of poverty by acquiring reliable, low cost automobiles that have been donated by generous friends of the agency. Since its inception in Burlington, Vt., the Good News Garage has established programs in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire and has enabled more than 3, 800 individuals and families to achieve economic self-sufficiency.