Throughout the recent holiday season, the LSSI community captured the spirit of Christmas kindness...
Friends of LSSI Make Holidays Special for Clients 
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Stories of Inspiration
True Friend Benefit Offers Children Statewide Bright Futures, Big Dreams
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI) celebrated its 44th Annual True Friend Celebration...
LSSI Partners with Elk Grove Church: Respite Care Works Both Ways
This story was recently featured in the Daily Herald newspapers. A Godsend. Vital. A lifesaver....
Son Becomes Intouch Caregiver for Grateful Dad
Son Becomes Intouch Caregiver for Grateful Dad When Chris...
Mobile Crisis Team Helps 12-Year-Old Boy
Nate, an LSSI professional mobile crisis counselor, heads to a junior high where a 12-year-old...
Counselor Supports Mother and Child at Hospital
At Thorek Memorial Hospital in Andersonville, Candy waited patiently with her young child for her...
Expanding a Family through Love and Foster Care
Meet Oscar and Kaylee Gordon, LSSI foster parents in southern Illinois, pictured with their...
Bernice’s Big Heart
Meet Bernice, an LSSI foster parent and superhero. Bernice began fostering in 1995 and has...
Crisis Workers Rescue Man from Bridge
Suicidal and ready to jump off a Chicago bridge, a man called LSSI’s Mobile Crisis Line. The...
On the Road to Sobriety
Michael struggled with addiction until LSSI helped him down the road to recovery and sobriety.
Books Brighten Children’s Christmas
In Dixon, IL, Carolyn Chin and her late husband, Larry Dunphy, cofounded Books on First in 1998, a...
A Foster Care Family Affair in Northern Illinois
Solange and her husband, who live in Northern Illinois, had five biological children when they...
Caring for Teenage Girls in Foster Care
Becky is a dedicated foster parent in Whiteside County who has worked with LSSI since 2005. In...
Foster Parents Welcome Seven Children through Adoption
Amanda Rushing Holbrook remembers vividly the day she and her husband, Daniel, journeyed down a...
Donald, Community Support Teams
LSSI’s Community Support Team (CST) and Community Case Management (CCM) staff provide essential...
Alisha, Screening Assessment and Support Services
Alisha Denis, LCSW, one of LSSI’s Screening Assessment and Support Services (SASS) Counselors at...
Karen, Step-Up School-Based Counseling Program
Karen, a counselor in LSSI’s Step-Up School-Based Counseling Program, has some great resources to...
Michelle, Project IMPACT
On a normal day working for LSSI’s Project IMPACT, a behavioral health crisis program in 4 Chicago...
Decades of Support for LSSI
Luther Memorial Church, Chicago, has been committed to LSSI’s mission since their pastor was named...
Reaching Out to Community
Four years ago, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Aurora, signed a contract with LSSI to allow the use...
Hope Moves
What began as a modest undertaking three years ago by a small group at Northeast Christian Church,...
Breathing New Life into Recovery
When Lutheran Church of the Atonement, Barrington, embarked on a capital campaign several years...
Bill Fleck, 2022 True Friend Honoree
From Collecting Coins to Carving Crosses: 90 Years of Serving Others In 1933 at age eight, Bill...
Award-Winning Work with LSSI
In recognition of her dedication to LSSI’s Storybook Project, Sharon Zuiderveld received the 2019...
Networking for Good
Patti Carroll is living proof of the power of networking. After hearing several inspiring LSSI...
Sharing Stories That Matter
T.J. Easley spent his entire career as a corrections officer. Now retired, he still goes back into...
Foster Parents Show Love; Model Family Support
With more than 18,000 children in Illinois in foster care, foster parents Mandi and Roberto Garcia...
Therapeutic Foster Care Achieving Success
In 2017, LSSI started its pilot Therapeutic Foster Care program to support children who have...
Keys to Success
With her warm voice and infectious laugh, Gloria Cunningham jokes about being one of the first...