LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES IN THE CAROLINAS

Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas strives to provide abundant life for children, adults, and families in the Carolinas. The organization believes in delivering high quality, innovative, empowering, multi-generational, person-centered, and inclusive programs and services.

LFS is committed to empowering others to grow physically, socially, financially, and emotionally within environments that foster independence, choice, and security.

LFS partners with other nonprofit organizations, government agencies, civic groups, and faith communities across the Carolinas and beyond to serve the most vulnerable children, adults, and families in North and South Carolina. The organization uses a variety of evidence-based and evidence-informed practices to ensure services are effective and appropriate to promote healing and wholeness.

LFS focuses on providing the highest quality of care to those it serves and has extensive experience working with special populations, including children and adolescents; adults with traumatic brain injuries, severe and persistent mental illness, and intellectual and/or developmental disabilities; refugees; and families recovering from natural disasters. The agency has extensive clinical and administrative capacity and has well-established, robust quality management and improvement processes in place. The adoption of evidence-based and trauma-informed services demonstrates its commitment to quality and effectiveness and the agency has been continuously accredited by the Council on Accreditation since 2004.

Recent accomplishments include creating a statewide foster family recruitment team in North Carolina to care for more children in need; establishing a new supported living residence in Durham, NC for adults with traumatic brain injuries; and opening two new recovery residences in South Carolina (in Greenwood and Columbia) for adults working towards long-term sobriety.

LFS is proud to share its annual accomplishments through its annual report, which highlights both programmatic accomplishments and its financial position. This report is readily available on its website.