News & Announcements

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...

“That time” is never any fun. But what do you do if you suffer from period poverty, meaning that you can’t afford products for menstruation? High school senior Ryann Jordan learned about this issue from her sister, who’s an undergraduate at Cornell. Ryann researched...

“I was in foster care at age 8 because my mom and her boyfriend were verbally and physically abusive to me. I was taken to my half-sister’s dad’s family. They had my best interest in mind. I was there until age 12. Then I went back to my mom. She had promised me a...

The headline: After advocating for Rafael Par Guarcax for more than five years, our Immigration Legal Program successfully achieved permanent resident status for him. The story? Much more involved. Rafael arrived in the US in 2016 as an unaccompanied minor, age 17. He...