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Lutheran Social Services is one of the largest social service organizations in New England. We combine personalized, compassionate care with extremely high standards of clinical sophistication and operational excellence to deliver a broad variety of services to children, youth and families; persons with developmental disabilities, mental illness and Deafness; the economically disadvantaged; refugees and older adults. In keeping with our mission, we serve and care for people in need, regardless of religious affiliation.
The faces you see here are the people of today whose lives have been changed because they are served by Lutheran Social Services(LSS). Every day the 1,400 employees of LSS help and care for more than 4,000 clients regardless of race, creed, gender or age in more than 55 social ministry programs throughout New England.
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Our Services for Older Adults include the separately incorporated Lutheran nursing homes of Southbury, CT, and Worcester, MA. Emmanuel House Residence in Brockton, MA, and Luther Manor in Middletown, CT, offer assisted and congregate living. Emanuel Village in Worcester, MA, offers independent living for low income elderly and moderately disabled adults.
The Adoption Program of LSS offers services of domestic and international adoption throughout New England. The Agency has formal adoption agreements with countries in Asia and Eastern Europe. Through its membership in the nationwide Lutheran Adoption Network (LAN), LSS is able to facilitate adoptions from many additional countries. Offices are located in Rocky Hill, CT; Worcester, MA; Concord, NH, and Cranston, RI.
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, CT; Wellesley, West Springfield, Westfield and Worcester, MA, and Concord, NH, include resettlement, employment assistance, job training, language, citizenship education, and foster placement of unaccompanied refugee minors.
LSS enables homeless and parenting teenage mothers and their children to live in safety and find support for making life changes. These transitional living programs are the Florence House in Worcester, MA, and the Ruth House in Brockton, MA. The Ruth House also provides a support program for young families, including fathers.
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, NH, 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, MA, is a new residential support program in which eight adults live in private apartments and share communal living space.
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, NH, and Brockton, MA. Adolescents in need of residential support are served at the Greentree Boys and Girls Homes in Arlington and Brockton, MA, and the Antrim, NH, Girls Shelter, a short term program for teenage girls.
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.
Lutheran Disaster Response New England (LDR-New England) is carried out in the region by LSS in Worcester, which administers a volunteer and disaster aid program on behalf of all Lutheran congregations in the Northeast. LDR-New England coordinates resources and services between the national Lutheran Disaster Response agency and local FEMA, Voluntary Organizations against Disaster (VOAD), the Salvation Army, Red Cross, United Way and local interfaith agencies.
LSS Resurrection Family Support Center in Roxbury, MA, is a community resource center in one of Boston's most challenging urban neighborhoods.
LSS Executive Staff
Lutheran Social Services Board of Directors
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