Strength-based services at our center and in people’s homes keeps families together and moving forward.
We provide the interventions and care that vulnerable, at-risk families need over the short term. But we also look beyond their immediate needs to see how they can achieve lasting stability and growth. We do that by building caring, respectful relationships and offering multiple services, which over time will boost family health and well-being.
Our model offers a special focus on:
- Parenting and early childhood development and health
- Nursing care for mothers, infants and young children
- Family health issues, like asthma, diabetes, depression and abuse
- Advocacy for families needing assistance with housing, food, legal aid—or any short-term crisis.
Supporting families in their homes allows us to build trusting, mutual relationships that helps them build on their strengths, draws them out from the shadows of isolation, and builds a support community with LSA as their cornerstone.
We take an integrated approach to partner with families and consider their needs around health, education, the home environment, and more.
For decades, the concept of mutual relationships has been at the core of our mission. In a world too often marked by fragmentation, we believe that only genuine relationships will create a supportive, caring community, and that those who interact with each other will mutually grow.
At LSA, we’ve learned through experience that when our professional relationships with our clients involve the personal—the human—our impact deepens while growth is fostered within us all.
Financial hardship, crisis and poverty directly impact the health, stability and growth of families, particularly infants and small children. That’s why LSA Family Health Service has a special focus on the needs of families with babies and young children.
The youngest members of the family suffer disproportionately from poverty, because they’re the most vulnerable and least resilient, especially when chronically impacted by the effects of poverty, poor nutrition, substandard living conditions, inferior or no health care and toxic stress.
