Lutheran Social Services of Northern California

Provides compassionate, caring, nonsectarian services to people in need. Programs in Bay Area include transitional housing, supported housing services, individual counseling, money management services for people, disaster relief, homeless support.

Why do we exist?

Lutheran Social Services (LSS) is a non-profit organization, incorporated on February 1968, in California, as a Public Benefit Corporation. The mission of LSS is to respond and support individuals, youth, and families that are most vulnerable because of homelessness, mental illness, drug addiction or disaster. We provide services and compassionate guidance as we support more than 2,575 individuals and families in Northern California to stabilize their lives and become self-sufficient.

Lutheran Social Services of Northern California, responding to the biblical mandates of compassion and justice, affirms the inherent worth of all people and strives to prevent and alleviate human suffering. LSS is an affiliated social ministry organization of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and a recognized service organization of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. The varied programs of LSS reflect the efforts of the Lutheran churches and of individuals to live out their faith by responding to human need.

What have you accomplished?

Last year, LSS provided services to over 2,575 people. Our programs target individuals, youth, and families who are chronically homeless and often struggle with addiction and mental illness. Transitional housing programs that help families establish themselves in permanent housing assisted 241 families and individuals.

Saybrook Permanent Supportive Housing Program provides a compassionate, integrative and comprehensive support system for 60 families experiencing alcohol and other drug (AOD) addictions as well as mental health disabilities (74% of Sacramento County homeless have at least one disability). As families enter the program, they are provided with case management services and assistance with the purchase of household necessities to provide them with a fresh start.  Additionally they are given information and access to on-site services any time they need or require further support.  Additionally, they work with the families to build personalized relationships, create individualized goals, and ultimately guide and encourage them towards self-sufficiency.
 
If my family and I would have been living somewhere else, we would probably be homeless because of  my mother’s medical leave at work.  LSS has provided me and my family with a home and people who I can call my friends and family and since the rent’s low, we get enough clothes and food.” Saybrook Resident

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