LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Children with behavioral health issues tend to become adults with behavioral health issues. The consequences of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) are well-documented. We intend to interrupt this process by offering intense therapeutic intervention in the form of therapy, foster care, education, recreation and spiritual nurturing. In our ministry, these things equate to our belief in God's love and the effect it has on the whole person. Ours is NOT a symptom abatement model. We offer tools for handling the tragedies of life and its consequences. We surround our children with talented, skilled and caring staff who exhibit God's love in their everyday duties.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Louisiana Methodist Children's Home
Louisiana Methodist Children's Home is an 84-bed psychiatric residential treatment facility located in Ruston, Louisiana. We provide the most intensive and comprehensive level of residential psychiatric care available in Louisiana for children who cannot live with their families, in foster care or in treatment group homes due to their significant emotional and behavioral needs.
Methodist Children's Home of Southwest Louisiana
Methodist Children's Home of Southwest Louisiana is a 28-bed treatment facility located in Sulphur, Louisiana. We provide the most intensive and comprehensive level of residential psychiatric care available in Louisiana for children who cannot live with their families, in foster care or in treatment group homes due to their significant emotional and behavioral needs.
Methodist Children's Home of Southeast Louisiana
Methodist Children's Home of Southeast Louisiana is a 32-bed intensive residential treatment facility in Loranger, Louisiana. We provide the most intensive and comprehensive level of residential psychiatric care available in Louisiana for children who cannot live with their families, in foster care or in treatment group homes due to their significant emotional and behavioral needs.
Outdoor Wilderness Learning Center
The Outdoor Wilderness Learning Center is an 800-acre experiential treatment facility for children, families, and groups located in north central Louisiana. Offering equine-assisted psychotherapy, a low and high element challenge course, ponds, a conference center, trails, cabins, sand volleyball, ponds and canoes, there is something for everyone at the OWL Center.
Family Counseling Center
The Family Counseling Center is a community service of Louisiana United Methodist Children and Family Services. Counseling services are available for individuals, couples, families, and children. Services are provided by Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, and Masters-level student interns.
Methodist Foster Care
Beginning in 2015, Methodist Foster Care has grown into Louisiana’s largest and most innovative therapeutic foster care agency. With regional offices in Monroe, Shreveport, Alexandria, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Shreveport, and Covington, Methodist Foster Care recruits, trains, certifies and actively supports a state-wide network of Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC) families who provide family-based treatment in specially trained foster homes.
Where we work
Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award 2015
Louisiana Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church
Affiliations & memberships
United Methodist Association 1951
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of children served by Methodist Foster Care.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Methodist Foster Care
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of clients in residential care
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Louisiana United Methodist Children and Family Services is a leading provider of intensive residential treatment, therapeutic foster care, and behavioral health services in Louisiana. With roots extending to 1886 in New Orleans and 1902 in north Louisiana, we have cared for tens of thousands of Louisiana's children and families. Today we provide services throughout the state of Louisiana.
We provide an array of ministries across Louisiana from home-based services to intensive residential care for children with severe emotional and behavioral needs who are unable to live at home even with community-based supports.
Louisiana United Methodist Children and Family Services, Inc. seeks to minister to the diverse needs of children and families by offering a variety of services that promote personal growth and wholesome family life. Our care is patterned after the example of Jesus who ministered to the total person so that each individual might experience the wholeness that comes through the reconciling love of God.
Based on our mission, vision and values and our knowledge of the children and families we serve, we seek to accomplish our mission in accord with our treatment philosophy.
Dignity, Respect and Privacy
All residents, clients and families for whom we care have the right to be treated with dignity, respect, and privacy in every element of care and treatment.
Individualized Assessment, Planning and Treatment
All residents, clients and families for whom we care are entitled to assessment, planning and treatment services designed to meet their individual and unique assessed needs.
Holistic Care
All residents, clients and families for whom we care are entitled to holistic care which addresses their physical, emotional and spiritual needs.
Nurturing Care Environments
All residents, clients and families for whom we care have the right to a nurturing, caring, supportive, safe, secure, and stable treatment environment to enhance their opportunities for change and growth.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
LUMCFS is Louisiana's largest provider of intensive residential treatment facility services for children and therapeutic foster care. With three regional campuses in Ruston, Sulphur, and Loranger, a robust network of therapeutic foster homes throughout the state, and an array of community-based services, LUMCFS has cared for thousands of Louisiana children. From its founding in 1902, LUMCFS has existed for only one reason: to care for Louisiana's most desperate children and families. Even with its 125th anniversary approaching, LUMCFS looks more to the future than the past. The new Methodist Children's Home of Southeast Louisiana opened near Hammond in 2022 on 126 acres in the center of Louisianas densest population growth during our next 100 years.
Our services are available to all Louisiana children and families. They are funded through contracts with Healthy Louisiana managed care organizations, agreements with the Department of Children and Family Services, and the charitable donations of thousands of Louisianas citizens.
The many services provided by LUMCFS are fully and dually accredited by the Council of Accreditation and the EAGLE Commission. Commendations from both accreditors speak to the organizations emphasis on quality, effectiveness, and ethics.
More than 600 strong, LUMCSF staff members are unabashedly committed to children's well-being and serving families with the greatest needs. Two divisions, Methodist Behavioral Healthcare, and Methodist Social Services, share their mutual strengths to provide specialized services that Louisianas children and families require but can obtain from few other providers.
Methodist Behavioral Health comprises the organizations programs aligned with the Louisiana Department of Health. These services include the three campuses licensed as psychiatric residential treatment facilities Louisiana Methodist Children's Home in Ruston, Methodist Children's Home of Southeast Louisiana in Loranger, Methodist Children's Home of Southwest Louisiana in Sulphur, and Methodist Aftercare Services.
Methodist Social Services most extensive program is Methodist Foster Care, which provides Therapeutic Foster Care throughout Louisiana, Kinship Support, and the Foster Care Support Organization. In addition, Methodist Social Services includes the Family Counseling Center, the Community Supports program, the Outdoor Wilderness Learning Center, the OWL Equine Center, and four regional Life Skills Training Centers.
Advocacy and Awareness Services are essential to effect the changes Louisiana's children and families require. LUMCFS advocacy work focuses on improving Louisianas frail Child Well-being Infrastructure, creating a Louisiana-specific Child Well-being Index, supporting innovative tools like LUMCFSs new Community Model of Residential Care, and strengthening Louisiana's array of prevention and early intervention services for children.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Louisiana United Methodist Children and Family Services is an organization of over 600 staff members who provide services to children and families across the state of Louisiana. The agency's Board of Directors ensures LUMCFS is healthy and actively pursues new, effective ministry opportunities in partnership with child welfare and behavioral health agencies, local Methodist and other faith-based congregations, and with other nonprofit ministries which have mission, vision and commitments compatible with our organization.
Our three campuses in the bootstrap, heel and toe of Louisiana's boot-shaped state anchor the residential, in-home and community-based services we provide to children and families in Louisiana.
Revenue for operations is received from fee for service sources, private donations, and revenue generated from endowed funds. LUMCFS expends charitable funds to supplement payments from state agencies to ensure children in our care receive high-quality, effectve treatment.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
With our earliest roots planted in New Orleans in 1886 and our official founding declared in 1902 in central and north Louisiana, Louisiana United Methodist Children and Family Services has a long and faithful history of providing services designed to meet the needs of Louisianas vulnerable children and families. Though we began as an Orphanage, much has changed since 1902. As the needs of Louisiana's children and families have changed, we have actively adjusted the services we provide to best meet those needs. Today, LUMCFS provides an array of services to Louisianas families and children.
During 2011-2013, Louisiana United Methodist Children and Family Services successfully transitioned our three children's homes in Louisiana from licensure by Louisiana's Department of Children and Family Services to licensure by Louisiana's Department of Health and Hospitals as psychiatric residential treatment facilities (PRTF).
In 2022, we completed construction on a state-of-the-art permanent home for Methodist Children's Home of Southeast Louisiana, located in Loranger. With the completion of new Home, we have achieved our goal of establishing permanent campuses in the bootstrap, heel, and toe of Louisianas boot-shaped state, anchoring our services in each area.
Since opening in 2015, Methodist Foster Care (MFC) has become the leading provider of therapeutic foster care in Louisiana. In 2023, MFC recruited, trained, certified, and supports homes throughout our state for 313 children who require therapeutic foster care services.
Moving forward, our energy and resources for improvement and expansion are now directed in two simultaneous directions: 1) toward enhancing the residential services we provide and 2) building a vibrant, robust Methodist Foster Care.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback
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LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
Board of directorsas of 02/28/2024
Mr. George James
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? No -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.