Program areas at Foundation for Lutheran Child and Family Services of Indiana
Our primary purpose is to support lcfs. The Foundation has raised funds for the following lcfs programs: lutherwood, emergency shelter care, and trinity house residential programs, community based Services, inspire, pando and spiritual growth. Residential Services include providing food, shelter, education, basic medical care, and counseling/therapy to youth living at lutherwood, trinity house, and lcfs' emergency shelter care programs. Additionally, lcfs provides mentoring and independent living skills training to clients enrolled in residential programming. These residential programs served 163 youth in 2023. Community based programs (including inspire) provide additional support in the community for children and families to (see schedule o for continuation).
The Foundation for Lutheran Child & Family Services provides the christmas store, which is by referral only, where clients may "shop" at no cost for gifts for their Family. In 2023, 180 families benefitted from the christmas store, totaling 901 individuals. The organization received contributions of $41,027 which included noncash in-kind contributions with donor designated value as an expense and revenue for approximately $13,352. Many in-kind donations were not assigned a value by the donor and were therefore entered as $0.
The sharing place is a clients' choice food pantry providing free food to families in need who are considered below the poverty line according to the usda standards. Clients are eligible to receive free food twice a month. The sharing place served 12,992 families, totaling 55,149 individuals, in 2023.
Ready, set, learn is coming to an end. We've been using the remainder of the restricted funds that have built up over the years. In 2023, we purchased uniforms & school supplies for the children in the inspire program.
The emergency diaper dispensary (tedd) program is to ensure that families living in poverty have an adequate supply of diapers for their infants and toddlers. The program provides free diapers to families in need. 79 families were served in 2023.