Our Work

LSS Services for Children and Families include domestic and international adoption, specialized foster care, residential (group) programs for teens at risk, and two ground breaking programs for parenting teenage mothers and their children who are homeless. LSS also boasts the only program in New England for refugee children who have been separated from their families.

LSS Services for New Americans were launched in the wake of World War II and continue to serve people who are fleeing persecution and war. LSS resettles hundreds of refugees every year in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

LSS Disability Services serve adults who have developmental disabilities, mental illness and deafness in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

LSS Good News Garage was the first program in the country to utilize cars donated by generous friends and provide them to low income individuals and families, helping them move from welfare to work. Good News Garage now serves in all six New England states. For more information, visit www.GoodNewsGarage.org

LSS In-Home Care is the fastest growing LSS program is which at the end of 2008 was providing more than 30,000 hours of care a month in New Hampshire to disabled adults who were able to choose their own caregivers and thus remain in their homes.

LSS Services for Older Adults encompass nursing and rest homes, assisted living residences, HUD-low income housing, and elder care management Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Lutheran Disaster Response – New England taps into the church's national resources for disaster relief to help families in New England who have been displaced or otherwise affected by disasters.

LSS of New England is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA.)