Changing Lives Can't Wait. Join us.Your gift means affordable housing, jobs, and financial stability. It means help for at-risk kids in our community. Your gift changes lives. Make your gift now to the LSS Center for Changing Lives Capital Campaign.
THE KRESGE FOUNDATION'S CHALLENGE lets your donation multiply. If LSS raises $4 Million by the end of 2008, The Kresge Foundation will give us $1.2 million. Every contribution counts! |
Life-Changing StoriesAs a homeless teen, Jennifer fought for survival [Video]
Becky has hope after living on the streets [Video]
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Latest NewsLSS President Mark Peterson talks about the building [Video]March 19, 2008: LSS President Mark Peterson talks about a unique project called the new Center for Changing Lives in Minneapolis, scheduled to open in November 2008, and how it will help people in need. Minneapolis Mayor salutes Center for Changing Lives [Video]March 21, 2008: R.T. Rybak, Mayor of Minneapolis, has a personal connection to the Center for Changing Lives. Rybak knows the Phillips Neighborhood well because his father owned a drug store there, and he recalls delivering prescriptions to the homes of struggling families as a young teen. R.T. tells of the impressions left by those visits, and the importance of LSS in the neighborhood. LSS launches public phase of CFCL capital campaign [Audio]March 19, 2008: Four years ago, Becky Hentges was pregnant and had nowhere to go. Drug addiction and depression made it difficult to gain stability. With affordable housing, counseling, parenting classes and employment help from Lutheran Social Service, she now works full time, has reunited with her older daughter and is making a new life with her family in Maple Grove. |
At age 17, Jennifer Fairbourne was homeless, traveling the country, hopping trains and living in abandoned buildings. What causes kids to turn to the streets? Sometimes, one event can change the course of a girl's life forever.
Becky Hentges is a hopeful mother today, but four years ago, she was pregnant with her youngest daughter and had nowhere to go. Having been through difficult times in her 36 years, the low point came when she was living on the streets with her two young daughters. She struggled with depression and drug addiction. And then she got help from LSS Housing Services...