The Commonwealth Fund featured a story on LSA Senior Connect as part of a focus on the merits of community-based organizations in their January 2020 newsletter. LSA Senior Connect is a service coordination platform that offers a unique, national solution in a fragmented health and human services landscape. The program is being piloted among 465 residents of a low-income senior housing facility in Toledo, Ohio. Staff social workers were trained to conduct a comprehensive screening of residents’ mobility and functional skills, home safety and security, nutrition, transportation, and social engagement. Lutheran Services in America President and CEO Charlotte Haberaecker notes that the program’s goal is to identify folks before they become high need.

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The latest issue of Living Lutheran magazine features Lutheran Services in America’s Results Innovation Lab and how the program equips leaders with the skills necessary to improve health, safety, stability and education for 20,000 at-risk youth by 2024. Lutheran Services in America President and CEO Charlotte Haberaecker notes how the Lab’s participants come out of these intense, interactive trainings with a better understanding on how to create strategic partnerships in addressing challenges that face the communities they serve. Due to the program’s success, Lutheran Services in America expects to add more participants to the Lab for a total of 50 member organizations in 40 states.

Read the article published in the January 2020 issue of Living Lutheran.