Program areas at LFS
Community-based Services including children's refugee & immigration servicescommunity based Services includes: refugee Services, immigration legal Services, anti-human trafficking, migrant support Services, healthy housing and transitional living.refugee Services includes: resettlement, housing, job placement, cultural orientation, english language classes, and other support systems. Immigration legal Services provides low-cost completion of immigration applications provided by accredited legal staff. Anti-human trafficking provides case management and legal supports for victims of human labor trafficking. Migrant support Services provides behavioral health, parenting classes and various case screens for non-violent immigration detainees awaiting court proceedings. Healthy housing conducts home interventions through construction and/or education to reduce environmental issues in the home that impact asthma and respiratory conditions in children. The transitional living program is a housing program for former foster youth to stabilize, attain skills, complete goals and transition to employment, education and housing. In 2022, these programs served 4,075 clients in refugee and immigrant Services and 1,135 clients in homeless prevention support.
Health and wellness Services including adult and children behavioral health, children's Services as well as other integrated support Services. Behavioral health Services include mental health therapy, medication management, community support, substance use disorder treatment, crisis response, and peer support. In addition, there are specialty Services for seniors in assisted living in partnership with immanuel assisted living, as well as support Services for active military, veterans, and their loved ones. Mental health counselors provide support for crisis response and co-responder programs as 24/7 backup for enforcement officers, shelters and families who accessed the Nebraska Family helpline. These Services expanded from douglas county to include hall and buffalo counties as well. Lfs also operated a certified community behavioral health center in lincoln, which involves an in-depth care and service coordination model that looks holistically at the client to remove barriers to care and service while serving clients where they need assistance along the social determinants of health. Children's behavioral health includes Family support, individual and Family counseling. In addition, rsafe programs provide treatment for children and Family who have suffered effects of child sexual abuse. All Services are provided through face to face or telehealth Services as determined by the client. During 2022, 7,736 clients were served in these programs.children's Services programs include a) Family preservation Services adoption Services providing infant & waiting child adoptions and post adoption support, foster care and in-home Services, kinship care, home study Services, and fatherhood Services; b) individual and Family support Services including parent education involving prevention of abuse and neglect by teaching skills to build Family self-sufficiency, parenting skills and connections to other community Services; c) education and learning Services involving classes on nurturing parenting, budgeting and financial literacy and prevention and early intervention Services for expectant mothers and at-risk families. Total number served 2,082 children and families.