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Mother's Day - Give a Card to Give the Gift of Motherhood

Project of
Lutheran Family and Children's Services

Moms are SPECIAL! This Mother's Day honor the amazing women in your life with a gift that lasts! Send a card through LFCS along with a tribute in her name that will help other women realize the gift of motherhood through adoption or foster care.

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$15.00 Level

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Your gift of $15 can provide a box of baby wipes that can be shared with 8 to 10 families. We are ALWAYS short on baby wipes! See how every gift can make a big impact in many lives!

$25.00 Level

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Your gift of $25 or more will make an impact. $25 will provide a box of diapers and a package wipes for one of our families. Every donation of any size increases our project's momentum and takes us closer to our goal.

$50.00 Level

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Your donation of$50 will help to provide a used high chair or stroller to one of our families. Please consider sharing our project on your social media channels to help add to our momentum.

$100.00 Level

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Your generous donation will help to provide a month of formula for a premature infant or a month of diapers and wipes. Please plan on returning to this page to check our project’s progress as we near our deadline.

Project Overview

"Through LFCS, we grew a family! I became a mom."

 

LAST YEAR:

-395 people were helped through the Crisis Pregnancy Program (PPAS)
-225 foster families were licensed and/or supported
-And 64 adoptions were finalized!

 

Moms are SPECIAL! This Mother's Day honor the women who have made a difference in your life with a gift worthy of her - while helping give other women the gift of motherhood.

Give a gift that lasts by sending a card through LFCS, along with a tribute in the name of each the special mom in your life, and include your personal message of why they each mean so much to you. (After making your donation you will receive an email with instructions on how to submit the recipient’s details.)


Last year, the Southwest Office of LFCS served hundreds of local children, women, and families through pregnancy, parenting and adoption services, foster parent programming, and counseling. As one adoption client shared, "Through LFCS, we grew a family! I became a mom." Your gift will grow even more families this year. 

Your tribute to your mother makes a huge difference! We hope you’ll share with each of the special women who have left a LASTING LEGACY OF LOVE in your life! 

Click here  for another heart-touching video of love and lasting change!

Thank you for your tax deductable donation!

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About Lutheran Family and Children's Services

LFCS is first and foremost a crisis pregnancy counseling center and adoption agency. In Southwest Missouri we also offer mental health counseling starting as young as age 2, and work with the state foster care system to train and case manage foster families. Greene County has over 700 children in the foster care system which is the highest statistic in the state. And we recently were granted the privilege of serving four additional counties, doubling our foster parent case management and the foster children in their homes to over 400. With 53% of foster children being adopted by their foster parents it is crucial to have these children in individual homes rather than facilities. Making that happen is our mission. And as a result our SWMO office has, by far, the highest annual adoption rate of all of our regional locations across the state!

LFCS SWMO Fast Facts:

  • The Southwest Regional office is located in Springfield and serves 29 counties in SW Missouri

  • Programs are available to everyone regardless of age, faith, gender, national origin or race

  • More than 90% of clients are of other faiths than Lutheran

  • Services are provided by professional social workers and psychologists

  • LFCS has other offices located in St. Louis, St. Charles, Union, Columbia and Cape Girardeau

  • 394 individuals were served through our pregnancy, parenting and adoption services

  • Assisted pregnant women with critical direct assistance such as food, clothing, housing and transportation

  • 88% improved education and/or employment
  • 100% improved housing

  • 96% of LFCS clients delivered healthy babies

  • Almost 300 children received Christmas gifts through the Season of Sharing

  • 225 foster families served

  • A part of 64 children being placed in Forever Homes through adoption

  • Counseled  148 individuals through new Mental Health Services for 1400 hours of evidenced based therapy

  

PROGRAMS & SERVICES:

Pregnancy, Parenting & Adoption

  • Confidential, professional pregnancy counseling and case management for families choosing to parent or make an adoption plan for their unborn child

  • Referrals and direct assistance for women facing an unplanned or crisis pregnancy

  • Continues support services to women for one year post delivery

  • Offers quarterly support groups for birth parents; All services free of charge

 

Foster Care

  • Provides temporary and emergency foster care for both infants and children

  • Recruits, trains, supports, and handles case management for foster parents of children in the State's Foster Care System.

  • Foster care adoption support and training

  • A member of the Springfield Partners collaboration with Preferred Family Health and Good Samaritan Boys' Ranch

 

Adoption

  • Fully licensed and Hague accredited

  • Assistance with domestic, inter-country, independent and embryo adoptions

  • Complete home studies for families adopting through LFCS, inter-country, independent and embryo adoptions

  • Offers support and education to adoptive families

  • Provides post-placement supervision

 

Mental and Behavioral Health Counseling

  • Fully licensed Psychologists

  • Counseling for children, adolescents, couples, individuals and families

  • Psychological testing and assessment

 

Lutheran Family and Children's Services

http://lfcsmo.org/locations/southwest-office/

Springfield , MO
417-862-1972
jaimec@lfcs.org