Our Services

Services for Older Adults
Our Services for Older Adults include the separately incorporated Lutheran nursing homes of Southbury, Conn., and Worcester, Mass.  Emmanuel House Residence in Brockton, Mass., and Luther Manor in Middletown, Conn., offer assisted and congregate living. Emanuel Village in Worcester, Mass., offers independent living for low income elderly and moderately disabled adults.

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 Hartford, Conn.; Wellesley, West Springfield, Westfield and Worcester, Mass., and Concord, N.H., include resettlement, employment assistance, job training, language, citizenship education, and foster placement of unaccompanied refugee minors.

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 18. Offices are located in Concord, N.H., and Brockton, Mass.  Adolescents in need of residential support are served at the Greentree Boys and Girls Homes in Arlington and Brockton, Mass., and the Antrim, N.H., Girls Shelter, a short term program for teenage girls.

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, offer 24-hour 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. New Hampshire "LSS SmartCare" 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 Services
LSS SmartCare In-Home Services is the fastest growing program within Lutheran Social Services. This consumer directed program was pioneered in New Hampshire in 2003. Today, more than 450 older disabled and chronically ill adults are served in their homes by caregivers of their choosing. LSS SmartCare In-Home Services has now expanded into Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine.

Good News Garage
Good News Garage, a affiliate of LSS, is a nationally recognized and groundbreaking program established in 1996 to help qualified low income families break the cycle of poverty by acquiring 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 2,500 individuals to achieve economic self-sufficiency.