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Diane Kelly has volunteered at Lutheran Family and Community Services since September 2000, in the food pantry and layette program.  Presently, she serves as the volunteer in charge of the layette program for low-income families with new babies.  She coordinates and...

Two hundred Easter baskets filled with coffee, tea, hot chocolate, cookies, pudding, juice, cake mix with frosting, fruit, and candy Twenty-four layettes for young infants Chicken, ham, or turkey for the holiday table Things many of us take for granted which make all...

“I was impressed. They had a better chemistry lab than I had,” says LSSNY board member Rebecca Johnson of her tour of The New Life School — a therapeutic learning environment where the classroom fits the child and not the other way around. Seeing the classrooms,...

Sometimes bureaucracy and geography can have serious life consequences. A family at our Brooklyn sanctuary site, Fortitude House, learned that their court case/master hearing had been scheduled in Cleveland, Ohio — miles away. Donika Prelvukaj, LMSW, Program Director...

Small acts of kindness can make a big impact. Guadalupe Contreras is a resident at our Muhlenberg residence. He is taking online courses to get a degree in online security, yet he didn’t have a computer of his own. Our Executive Director for Residential Services,...

How do you go from being general counsel for the New York Yankees to a critical board member of Lutheran Social Services of New York (LSSNY)? At the Life Lutheran Church in Old Westbury, Rachel Cohen served as missions coordinator for home and abroad. Donating to...

You can’t take the educator out of the educator. From the time she was confirmed at age 13, LSSNY board member Barbara Johnson started working as an assistant teacher with the children in her church’s nursery school. She would watch them while their parents were at...

Today was National Wear Red Day and our Bergen Street staff represented. This residence provides single-room apartments for formerly homeless individuals, along with supportive services and daily programming. Pictured staff (L to R): Asma Aljahmi, Supervisor of Social...

"Giving back has just always been an important part of what I do." That's what Kiya Rheubottom, Director of Family Support Services at LSSNY, told our Executive Director of Residential Services, Rachel Bleecker, as she filled Rachel's SUV with boxes upon boxes of...