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Letter From the President |
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When we turn the calendar on
December 31, LSS will begin its 140th year of work in Minnesota! We have a
remarkable heritage, passionately devoted to serving others. Our work
began in Vasa and Red Wing, where our work remains vital to this day.
Click here to
read more!
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New Service for Homeless Teens Opens in Brainerd |
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While the
majority of Minnesota's homeless young people can be found in the
metropolitan area, smaller communities also recognize that they must
provide for the homeless and vulnerable young people. To meet this need in
the Brainerd Lakes area, LSS was given federal funding to provide homeless
youth with transitional housing and training in independent living skills. Click
here to learn more!
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| Leadership
Circle Meets at Vasa |
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Leadership Circle at LSS has been growing. This year 75 households
were members of the Circle, thanks to their level of generous
financial support. Click
here to find out more! |
| LSS
raises goal to
$600,000 for Safe Homes, Hopeful Futures
campaign |
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Response to LSS's Safe Homes, Hopeful Futures
campaign to raise funds for programs serving homeless and at-risk youth in
the Twin Cities metro area has been very strong. Originally, the goal for
the campaign was $400,000, and gifts, as of October 20, 2004, were almost
$375,000. Click here
to read more!
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Minnesota: A Good Place to Start Over |
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LaShunda
Cross learned from her contacts in Chicago and hometown, Madison, Wisc.,
that Minnesota was a good place to start over. "In the mid 1990s, I kept
hearing that Minneapolis was a place where you could find a job, and where
there were services to help to begin a new life."
Click
here to learn more!
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| There's More
to the Picture |
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If you were
to walk into Sarah Armwood's small office at LSS in Minneapolis, you would
find a very professional woman. Your impressions would likely be these:
college graduate (good school), polished, intelligent, professional fast
tracker. Another Sarah Armwood is there, too - one who has been jobless,
desperate, homeless and fleeing an abusive relationship, the kind of
person LSS helps every day. Click
here to read more!
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| LSS Senior
Companions Celebrate 30 Years' Service |
Almost 400 Minnesota Senior Companions gathered in Duluth from Sept.
24-30, 2004, to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Senior Companion
Program in Minnesota. The Senior Companion Program matches caring,
energetic seniors with frail and elderly people who cannot live a
completely independent life. Click
here to find out more!
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Grandparents: Becoming a
parent again |
What do Sir Isaac Newton, Carol Burnett, and Oksana
Baiul have in common? All were raised by their grandparents. When
parents are unable to take on the responsibility of raising their
children, grandparents often step forward. Such scenarios are on the
rise. Click
here to learn more!
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Safety
net caught one thankful teen |
Where
might you be if you were 17 years old and on your own?
Ashley Barbre knows where she was: a junior at Hermantown High
School, seeking shelter in the skywalks of Duluth with nothing but her
backpack and the clothes she was wearing. She is one of 660 kids that
the Wilder Foundation says are homeless on any given night in
Minnesota. Click
here to learn more!
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In from the
cold:
Nord House helps teenage
girls trapped in drug
addiction |
Sometimes
in life, hitting a low point is necessary to turn things around. For
Karyn (last name omitted by request), that low point came when
she ran away from LSS Nord House, a program
for teenage girls with chemical dependency problems. She left the
house in her pajamas and slippers … in the middle of February. She
hiked more than a mile in the snow to call her father from a nearby
gas station. She told him, "Dad, I don't belong there. I don't have a
problem." Click here to read more!
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| Motivated to
give:
foster families tell us why
they do it |
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Serving as a foster family is
an incredible gift to the children who need a safe home in times of
trouble. It's also hard work, with its ups and downs. But the families who
participate in the LSS Treatment Foster Care program, and the families who
provide infant foster care for LSS Adoption say that, in one form or
another, they are motivated by the same thing. Some call it 'faith,'
others say it's a 'calling' or a 'mission.'
Click here to find out more!
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| Camp Knutson
Update |
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Since the "Rebuilding for
Good" project began in 1998, Camp Knutson has been completely re-built.
Every single existing building has been totally renovated and sports the
"up north" look of cedar/log siding with green trim paint.
Click
here to learn more!
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| Bobbi Hoyt
Awarded for Outstanding Volunteering |
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Roberta (Bobbi) Hoyt of Duluth
was presented the Heritage Quilt Award for Outstanding volunteer at the
September meeting of the LSS Board of Directors. Beth Lewis, Director of
Volunteer Services, presented the award along the Lynn Shubitz, Program
Manager of the LSS Bethany Crisis Nursery in Duluth.
Click
here to learn more!
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