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Leading Through Innovation and Partnership, Lutheran Social 2011 Annual Report Leading through innovation and partnership, Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota strengthens lives and communities by putting Faith in Action Board, staff and donors propel agency forward Dear Friends, It has been an exciting year at Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota. Everything starts with a strong board of directors and is implemented by a hard-working and dedicated staff with the invaluable assistance of our volunteers, donors and funders. These ingredients assure our success. Lutheran Social Services continues to move forward with our Abound in Hope capital campaign to build a new Fargo Program Center and renovate Luther Hall, our residential psychiatric treatment facility for youth. Like any campaign, it has its challenges in this economy, but we are working hard to achieve our goals. North Dakota saw more than its share of disasters this year, with the Minot area flood being the most tragic of these. Through our Lutheran Disaster Response program, Lutheran Social Services has played a prominent role in cleanup and rebuild in all of the disaster areas and has been onsite in Minot and Ward County since the flood hit. We will remain there for the next few years, doing everything we can to help that region recover. We are also committed to continuing to help other areas in the state that are faced with difficulties. Lutheran Social Services Housing continued to grow rapidly this past year, with an additional three projects bringing us to a total of six rental communities established with tenants living there as of June 30, 2011. We are indeed honored to be able to bring economical housing to rural North Dakota to help enable people to remain living in their home communities. Lutheran Social Services’ executive staff and program directors have been dedicating considerable time and effort this year to implementing and refining our Vision 2019 strategic planning process. This is an exciting venture that is enabling us to focus the future of Lutheran Social Services and we are proud of our efforts in this regard. Finally, and most importantly, there is the contribution that all of you make to the successful mission of Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota. Your sharing of your time, talents and resources, combined with your belief in what we do, is so important to all of us who work here and deliver the services that meet the needs of the people we serve. It is impossible to find the words to thank you, but please know that we deeply appreciate all you do for us. God bless, Robert L. (Bob) Sanderson, CEO Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota This 2011 Annual Report covers the Fiscal Year from July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011. 2 www.lssnd.org Adoption Option Healthy Families Child Care Adoption Option is a statewide This home visitation program is Resource program offered jointly by provided free to at-risk parents & Referral Lutheran Social Services of beginning prior to or at the time North Dakota and The Village of their infant’s birth. Through Lutheran Social Services helps Family Service Center. Staff this evidence-based, primary connect families to child care provides pregnancy counseling, prevention program, Lutheran and also trains and supports the facilitates adoptions and assists Social Services offers in-home 647 licensed child care providers birth children and birth parents support, education and in western North Dakota through in searches to establish agreed- community referrals to help its Child Care Resource and upon contact with one another. overburdened parents create Referral program (CCR&R). The staff also trains medical a healthy and nurturing home This year Lutheran Social Services professionals and social workers for their new baby. increased the number of child care statewide providers in western North Dakota 49 families “Healthy Families is a helper by helping 69 in-home child care on adoption in Burleigh providers and 9 child care issues and and a support person and I and Morton centers start new child care works with Counties appreciate it so much.” businesses, helping 2,898 families prospective (Bismarck– find licensed child care in western adoptive Mandan area) —Healthy Families client North Dakota and training 1,458 parents. and 62 families individuals, with 973 providers in Grand Forks and Nelson This year 32 children were attending 35 training events and Counties received in-home services adopted and placed in loving 1,190 providers completing 22,996 from Lutheran Social Services’ homes. 100 women received online courses. Healthy Families program pregnancy counseling. 12 searches this year. 98% of the were completed for adopted adults, children in the program are birth siblings or birth parents. 1,621 up-to-date on well-baby people attended community checks and immunizations. education and outreach Faith Even though 81% of presentations at 289 sites. participants are single parents, 62% of the fathers in are involved in the program. Action 2011 Annual Report (7/1/10–6/30/11) 3 Family Based New American Luther Hall Services Services Lutheran Social Services serves Intensive in-home counseling is Lutheran Social Services youth between the ages of 10 provided to families with one or helps legally-admitted refugees and 18 from across the state more children at risk of being begin a new life and become who have been diagnosed with placed outside the home through self-sufficient in North Dakota. a psychiatric disorder and need Lutheran Social Services’ The agency’s New American 24-hour care and treatment at Family Based Services program. Services program resettles Luther Hall in Fargo. Qualified refugees in the Fargo, Grand mental health professionals 346 family members in 118 Forks and Bismarck provide residents with an families received ongoing individualized plan to meet their counseling services. 74% of the communities, also providing employment and legal specific needs at this residential youth served were retained in the psychiatric treatment facility. family home 90 days after immigration services. Assessment, education, therapy completing services. Resettled 402 refugees who and psychological or psychiatric fled their country because of services are provided on site. DIVERT persecution. 205 employable adults went to work after Last year 37 youth along with Through this early intervention resettlement. 566 new Americans their families were served by program for at-risk youth and completed applications for Lutheran Social Services at Luther their families, Lutheran Social citizenship, green cards and other Hall. The average age of residents Services helps the youth immigration needs. Provided was 15 years and the average identify difficulties, sets goals 11,454 days of care to refugee length of stay was seven months. for improvement and helps children and youth who arrived At discharge, 93% of the youth, obtain needed resources. without a parent or guardian. their families and case workers reported that the youth made 106 families were served by the positive changes during their DIVERT program. Referrals came treatment at Luther Hall. from Juvenile Court, schools, County Social Services and from Faith family self-referral. 75% of the youth who completed DIVERT were not involved in the juvenile in justice system for at least 90 days after going through the program. Action www.lssnd.org 4 Restorative Justice Day Report, BOSS & Adult Lutheran Social Services provides trained Reintegration Services facilitators to bring together persons who have After-school supervision, structure and educational committed a crime with their victims in a safe, assistance are provided to teens ages 14–17 who neutral Accountability Conference setting. Other have a history of delinquent offenses by Lutheran Restorative Justice services aimed at resolving Social Services’ Day Report program. In addition, differences and reducing recidivism include Victim Lutheran Social Services offers the Beyond Out Empathy Seminars and Community Circles. of School Suspension (BOSS) program to assist 515 youth offenders, 46 adult offenders and 239 suspended or expelled youth awaiting school victims were served. 144 students participated in placement. Adult Reintegration Services in restorative programming through services offered Bismarck provides vocational services for at Bismarck Public Schools. adult offenders returning to the community. “You get to actually tell the person 28 youth in Day Report completed 270 hours of who committed the crime how you feel, community service and received 3,427 hours of and you get to know that they really supervision and structure. feel bad for what they’ve done and Tracking that they won’t do it again.” Troubled youth at risk of being placed outside —Restorative Justice client (victim) their home are paired with an adult mentor who helps develop positive behavior in Lutheran Youth Court Social Services’ Tracking program. Lutheran Social Services’ Youth Court is an 308 youth were mentored, with 95% of referral alternative to formal court proceedings for youth sources indicating that Tracking was effective. in Cass County charged with an offense or showing concerning behavior. Teen volunteers serve as Attendant Care jurors and courtroom personnel to decide the disposition of cases, which usually involves actions Attendant Care is a short-term alternative to jail the youth must take to repair the harm done. or a detention center provided by Lutheran Social Services for juveniles needing supervision while 54 youth and their families were served. 91 volunteers awaiting
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