Program areas at LFS
Community-based Services provide opportunities for children and families to thrive in the areas of Family preservation, individual and Family support Services, economic empowerment, and education Services. Community based Services includes: refugee Services, immigration legal Services, anti-human trafficking, safe release Services (fingerprints), global language Services, and transitional living for transitional age former foster youth.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. The transitional living program is a housing program for former transitional age foster youth to stabilize, attain skills, complete goals and transition to employment, education and housing. In 2023, these programs served 5,751 clients in refugee and immigrant Services.
Health and wellness Services: programming to help people to live their best lives by offering children's behavioral health, adult behavioral health, and integrated support Services. Staff have immense pride in responding to the needs of each person and community through a holistic, client-centered approach to deliver health and human care that meets social, cultural, and linguistic needs for all. Services are provided face-to-face or via telehealth as determined by the client. Services include: adult behavioral health Services including mental health evaluations and on-going counseling, substance use evaluations and treatment, medication management, community support, peer support Services for clients including those with active or past military veteran background; children's behavioral health including mental health evaluations and on-going counseling; Services provided in a school setting, Family support, treatment for children and families who have been affected by problematic sexual behaviors or have suffered from the effects of child sexual abuse; certified community behavioral health clinics in lincoln and fremont which involves 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;older adult focused behavioral health Services; crisis response and co-responder Services with 24/7 coverage and working closely with law enforcement and 988; integrated behavioral health home;early intervention programming and Family preservation Services including infant & waiting child adoptions and post adoption support, kinship adoptions and kinship navigation care; fatherhood initiative project Services including serving fathers who are wanting to better connect or re-engage with their children and learn how to be better parents; Family Services including parent education involving prevention of abuse and neglect by teaching skills to build Family self-sufficiency, parent skills, and connections to other community resources; 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.7,611 clients were served in the behavioral health programs and 2,346 in the children and Family programs.