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COVID-delayed drug treatment graduation brings tears in Klamath Falls
Completing treatment for substance use disorder (SUD) while pressing through the hardships of pandemic isolation is a major accomplishment, times two. It’s a feat worth celebrating with cupcakes and goody bags. With a dramatic reading of a parable called "The Cracked...
LCS Northwest applauds introduction of Afghan Adjustment Act in Congress
One year after U.S. troops pulled out of their country, a shadow of uncertainty may begin to lift from our Afghan friends and neighbors with news that the U.S. House and Senate have introduced the Afghan Adjustment Act. Lutheran Community Services Northwest welcomes...
Pandemic can’t stop 150 from completing drug treatment
Coping with substance use disorder (SUD) is difficult in the best of times. The pandemic made it even more challenging for people struggling with addiction. “The social isolation imposed by the pandemic was especially hard on our clients. They experienced increased...
Teens bring servant hearts from Southwest desert to Puget Sound
Who says you have to live in the Northwest to volunteer for Lutheran Community Services Northwest? An energetic group of youth and their adult chaperones from Arizona recently proved that faithful service knows no bounds, and you don't need a passport to enter...
Port Angeles Family Center has bigger space to go with big hearts
Early this year LCS Northwest’s Port Angeles Family Center moved to a building more than four times larger than the old center. On the road to Hurricane Ridge, behind a chain-link fence 150 yards from Olympic National Park, this new home base for the agency’s Clallam...
Puzzle art reconnects Portland communities fragmented by COVID
If life can be explained in metaphors, here’s one that helps sum up the last two years. The COVID-19 pandemic turned many people in our communities into puzzle pieces scattered across a table, unattended and disconnected. But the good news of society’s gradual...
As Hope House closes, a different hope arises in Astoria
LCSNW is marking the end of an era and celebrating the start of a new chapter in Astoria, Oregon. For 30 years, the agency has partnered with local Lutheran church members to operate Hope House. There, children and families in the coastal community found counseling...
