Lutheran Social Services of Illinois

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Lutheran Social Services of Illinois

Agency President:	The Rev. Dr. Frederick Aigner
Mailing Address:	1001 East Touhy Avenue Des Plaines, IL 60018
Official Web site:	Lutheran Social Services of Illinois

Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI) reaches out to tens of thousands of people each year. But behind the wide scope of today's services lies a cluster of community-based, church-related missions that arose in response to varying needs in each community. LSSI's history is a tale of grassroots response to human needs by diverse groups of people whose common characteristic was—and is—a concern for others.

LSSI’s services include foster care, adoption, pregnancy counseling, Head Start, child care services, services for at-risk families, residential services for youth, counseling, mental health services, substance abuse treatment, residential programs for adults with developmental disabilities, housing and services for older adults and individuals with disabilities, nursing care and rehabilitation, and programs for prisoners and their families.

[edit] History

LSSI had its beginnings in 1867 with the founding of The Lutheran Home for Children in Andover.

An orphanage, The Lutheran Home for Children was the first Lutheran charitable institution in Illinois and one of the earliest in the nation.

The first social ministries to which LSSI traces its roots were primarily homes for orphaned children and aging adults.

Since the first home opened in 1867, a tradition of caring has been passed on--now extending through a vast network of social service programs to people of all ages, races, religions and economic classes throughout Illinois.

LSSI, is a statewide, not-for-profit social service agency of the three Illinois synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in American (ELCA).

[edit] Affiliations

Lutheran Social Services of Illinois is social ministry organization member of Lutheran Services in America and a partner of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.