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LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
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LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
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A Publication of Lutheran Social Services Fall 2012
LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
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InsIde LSS launches human trafficking clinic at BU
www.LSSNE.org
www.facebook.com/LSSNE
www.twitter.com/LSSNE
Festival Plaza on Main Street in Auburn, Maine, howled with LSS soul and high spirits on June 9, when the Maine developmental and mental health programs celebrated LSS’s 140th anniversary. Two LSS employees’ own bands performed. Volunteers, including members of Grace Lutheran Church, donated refreshments and raffled gift baskets. In Westbrook, Maine, LSS staff braved downpours to hold high the LSS banner and steer the LSS float in the Westbrook Days parade on June 2.
Maine programs celebrate LSS 140th anniversary
Maine staff and clients enjoyed the community event: from left, Linda Emond, team leader, LSS in-home support; Lenore Briggs, program participant; Tammy Lugo, in-home support staff.
Children and Family Services
A Program of Lutheran Social Services
Lutheran Social Services
Call 774.243.3900 • www.lssne.org/LSSfostercare
Foster Care Works!
Foster Care Works!We’ve seen
it work for 140
years! Give a
child a stable,
caring and safe
family and
work a miracle.
The LSS Unaccompanied Refugee Minors program – the only program in New England to serve refugee kids exclusively – has been asked to resettle 40 more youngsters than they’d originally expected.
This propels the program into an urgent search for foster homes. For information on how to become a foster parent for a refugee child, call 774.243.3900.
Lss will resettle 40 additional refugee children, bringing total to 170!
Children and Family Services
LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
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LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
Spring 2009
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LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
Spring 2009
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LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
Spring 2009
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LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
Spring 2009
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LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
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In celebration of National Adoption Month in November, the LSS adoption program will launch a speaker series focusing on adoption and parenting.
The Rev. Harold Wimmer, an adoptive parent and grandparent, will kick off the series by speaking about how adoption has touched and enriched his life. As part of
the event, an adoption award will be presented to him and his wife for their support of the adoption program over the years. Wimmer is a former bishop of the New England Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Join us on Sunday, November 18th from 4-6PM at Luther Ridge, 628 Congdon St. West, in Middletown, Conn. To register, please call 860.257.9899.
Guest speakers in the new year will include some nationally known experts on parenting and adoption. Details will be mailed and emailed and added to our website: wwwAdoptLSS.org.
Eight volunteers made Wednesday, September 12 a day of thankfulness — literally — as they sat at the central office in Worcester and made thank- you calls to over 570 LSS donors.
“United Way gave us the perfect venue for recognizing and thanking our donors for their financial contrib- utions,” said Diane Fitzmaurice, LSS volunteer and training coordinator. During each call, the volunteer announced that this was not a solicitation, just LSS saying thank you. “It was a great experience for everyone,” stated Fitzmaurice. The United Way volunteers received many words of encouragement from the donors, including “Really appreciate all that LSS does; I will continue to give,” and “Keep up the good work!”
Churches of the New England Synod-ELCA once again overwhelmed LSS with their generosity to the people LSS serves. They brought five large van loads of bed and bath items to the annual June Synod Assembly in Springfield, Mass., most of which will bring warmth and comfort to LSS refugee families.
The Greater Worcester Community Foundation has granted the LSS Services for New Americans $17,500 to provide refugee women with financial literacy education. “We hope to enable women to access economic opportunities which may have been denied to them until now. As an expression of economic and social justice, this effort represents the spirit of LSS to help those we serve achieve their highest potential,” stated David Forsberg, interim CEO. “We feel honored to have Greater Worcester Community Foundation as a partner in this effort.”
David Forsberg, LSS’s interim CEO, manned the grill and LSS employees served and waited on tables at a cookout for Emanuel Village residents. The event also honored volunteers.
Lss Adoption to launch speaker series in Connecticut
november is national Adoption Month
Lss says “Thank You” to donors during United Way day of Caring
Churches overwhelm Lss with donations at synod Assembly
Worcester community foundation awards Lss $17,500 to support literacy for refugee women
Team Lss hosts cookout for emanuel Village residents
United Way volunteers thank LSS donors: from left, Anne Crowell, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Susan Cahill, Agnieszka Potoczniak
Sister Carol Weaver, Gracie and Joe Hall, member of Grace Lutheran in Auburn, Maine, survey the piles of quilts, sheets, towels and other items contributed by New England Synod congregations at the June assembly.
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LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
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LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
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LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
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LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
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LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
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LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
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The Ruth House Family Reunion (September 15, 2012) brought former residents and their children, volunteers and staff together for a fun-filled day of games, music, dancing, food and prizes. More than 70 people attended. Ruth House is an LSS program for homeless teenage mothers and their children.
Lutheran Social Services continues to lead the way in Massachusetts in confronting the crime of human trafficking. Julie Dahlstrom, Esq., managing attorney of LSS’s Immigration Legal Assistance program, has spearheaded the establishment of a human trafficking clinic at the BU School of Law and will also serve as the faculty.
The clinic offers a unique opportunity for law students to work on actual cases of human trafficking, a widespread and serious human rights violation that involves as many as 27 million people world-wide.
The LSS human trafficking program provides confidential legal services and other types of support to survivors of human traffick-ing, such as pro bono legal advice and representation, including assistance to noncitizen survivors of human trafficking applying for a T Visa; comprehensive case management services; employment services; English as a Second Language classes and educational pro-grams; and referrals to community-based organizations. For further information, visit www.lssne.org/human-trafficking.
Ruth House Homecoming Lss launches human trafficking clinic at Boston University school of Law
Jean M. Jackson, LSS’s new vice president for human resources, comes to LSS from Baystate Health in Springfield, Mass., where she was served as VP for workforce planning and talent acquisition.
Jill Forbes, LSS’s new vice president for Connecticut operations, was the administrator for the District of Columbia Government, Child and Family services Agency in Washington, D.C.
Two new executives join Lss
Julie Dahlstrom, managing attorney, meets with a survivor of human trafficking.
Jean M. Jackson Jill Forbes
Friends of LSS
turned out to play
golf, enjoy a day
outdoors, and
benefit LSS clients
and programs. (Top) Pastor Susan Nachtigal
and Beth Axelson crossed clubs at the
Wachusett Country Club in Worcester, Mass.,
on May 17. Below, friends of Lutheran
Home of Southbury, Conn., gathered at the
Pomperaug Golf Course on Sept. 26: from
left: Kathleen Magrane (women’s long
drive winner); Barbara Valunas, director of
nursing, Sue Peters,
assistant director,
and Judy Slason,
manager of LSS
In-Home Care
in Conn.
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LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
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LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
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“Hi! My name is Owen. I love to watch Dora the Explorer on TV and I want a family who will love me forever!”
Owen is a nine-year-old, engaging and loving boy who was born with Smith Magenis Syndrome. He loves musical toys and is fascinated with the computerized electronics aids that he uses as learning games. Owen uses sign language and verbal cues to communicate and is beginning to use words. He has an individualized educational plan in school and is well loved by his teachers and his peers. Owen needs constant supervision and care and attends weekly medical and therapeutic appointments. A post adoption agreement is in place that allows Owen’s birth family three visits a year. Furthermore, Owen will need his new family to help him maintain contact with his grandparents who live in western Massachusetts. For more info about Owen please contact Ronald Dumont at the Department of Children and Families in Springfield, Mass. at 413.452.3370.
LSS is a contracted agency of the Department of Children and Families and offers Massachusetts Approach to Partnerships in Parenting (MAPP), home study training and child/family matching. Please contact Michelle Horne at 774.243.3957 for more information.
My name is Owen – Help me find a family
LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
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LSSA Quarterly Publication of Lutheran Social Services
888 Worcester Street, Suite 160
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781.997.0800
Fax: 781.997.0888
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lssne.org
In response
to Christ’s love,
Lutheran Social Services
serves and cares
for people in need.
LSS is moving into a future of servingpeople in community, where they live,work, play and worship!The models of care for older, disabled and chronically ill adults are changingrapidly. The fastest growing service – and service trend – within LutheranSocial Services is In-Home Care. This program (formerly known as LSSSmartCare) started six years ago in New Hampshire and has expandedacross LSS, with slight variations. Today, LSS provides 30,000 hours ofin-home care a month.
There are so many things about theIn-Home care model that just makesense: it postpones, sometimesaltogether, the day when clients haveto leave their homes in order to receivecare; it is much more affordable thaninstitutional care; it gives clients theability to select their own caregivers,thus providing employment for thecaregivers; and it preserves clients’dignity and peace of mind in thecomfort of their own homes.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who directs theLSS In-Home Care program in New
Hampshire, states, “We plan to enhance the program to provide bothself-directed and more comprehensive agency-directed care so that ourclients will have a full range of services available.”
The LSS Elder Care ManagementProgram that serves SoutheasternMassachusetts serves as a resource toelders and families, helping them toidentify the services in the communitythat meet their needs, includingin-home care. At the Lutheran Homeof Southbury, Conn., LSS In-Home Careprovides companion and homemakingservices for people with dementia andother disabilities who are living in thecommunity.
Carl Thornblad, right, with his grandsonJohn, who works for him through the LSSIn-Home Services program in NH.
“LSS In-Home Care
helps to strengthen
communities because
it maintains individuals
in the environments
that have nurtured them,
rather than forcing them
into alien institutional
surroundings just
because they need
increasing levels of care.”
– Rebecca Hutchinson
Director, LSS In-Home Care
Linda Smith, seated, has multiplemedical challenges. She receives careat home from her sister, Terry, andanother LSS In-Home caregiver.
Spring 2009
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