Jane Vader, Safe Harbor Regional Navigator at LSS serving south-central Minnesota, served as a featured speaker on sex trafficking awareness and prevention at Martin Luther College in New Ulm. LSS Mankato manages a 24-Hour Hotline (507.381.5511), connecting youth and young adults to transitional housing services, education and employment support, caring adults, necessities to meet one’s basic needs and other community resources. Read the story here.

Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota offered a Lunch and Learn webinar on Jan. 27 to help the community understand the role it can play in sex trafficking prevention. Check out the news report. You can also tune in to the webinar.

Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota (LSS) named Paul Slack as vice president of Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice, a newly-created position that serves on the LSS Cabinet and reports directly to the CEO. Slack joined Lutheran Social Service in 2019 as its Social Justice Advocate prior to being promoted to Social Justice Advocacy Manager.

Shannon Doyle with LSS Financial Counseling offered suggestions for avoiding holiday debt, including having a "battle plan" and considering homemade gifts. Listen to the story here.

The Minnesota Department of Human Services honored LSS Youth Services in Willmar with the Circle of Excellence Award, highlighting their work helping students who have aged out of foster care attend college through a voucher program, as well as find housing, food and resources. Read the story here.

Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota’s LSS Meals on Wheels service has partnered with Muscatell Subaru in Moorhead to collect food items through their joint Stuff the Trunk event. The food items will be distributed to older adults to have food in case of an emergency.

November is National Family Caregiver’s month—a time dedicated to recognizing all the hard work and support that family caregivers offer to their friends and loved ones. Caregiving can be difficult, and caregivers often need a much-deserved break. Even just a few hours alone can make a big difference.

Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota is seeking Caregiver Support AmeriCorps volunteers to provide family caregivers this much-needed break to relax, re-charge, practice self-care and reduce isolation.

KEYZ News Director Robin Travers chats with the Program Director of North Dakota Companion Services for Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota (LSS) Becky Telin.

LSS assumed operations of the Senior Companion service in North Dakota February 1, 2021, assuring that essential support through this service continued for older adults. Now, they need your help! LSS is currently recruiting for more Senior Companion volunteers throughout North Dakota.