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Ukraine: LCS Northwest ready to help, needs federal resources
A statement from President and CEO David Duea April 21, 2022 The announcement today by President Biden offering a lifeline to war-weary Ukrainians is a positive development. It begins to give structure to his pledge last month to admit up to 100,000 Ukrainian...
Santa for Seniors will go national, thanks to $15 million gift; Tacoma’s Bill Looney would smile
A local businessman's visits to his mother’s Puget Sound area care facility dressed as Santa Claus will grow into a national campaign to ease loneliness for isolated seniors. This is the legacy of Bill Looney, seven years after his death, thanks to a minimum $15...
Tri-Cities District opens Pasco office, drawing ‘awesome’ review from mayor
Families dealing with a youth mental health crisis know that being wait-listed for treatment can be a harsh fact of life. That goes double in the Tri-Cities area. There aren’t enough places in the Columbia Basin region of Eastern Washington for children and teens to...
These Oregon colleagues are immigrants, vaccine clinic organizers and ‘agents of change’
Meet: Leen Saheb and Maria Hands Ruz Job: Medical Case Managers District: Multicultural Services - Beaverton To protect themselves against COVID-19 this past fall and winter, hundreds of immigrants and other marginalized people in the Portland metro area had to...
Longtime champion of Northwest refugees promoted to agency-wide advocacy role
A widely respected spokesman for refugees, immigrants and other vulnerable people will step into a new job, a capstone to his nearly four-decade career at Lutheran Community Services Northwest. Salah Ansary, currently the Senior District Director of Multicultural...
Graduation Celebration a First Year Milestone for Klamath Falls Relief Nursery
In August 2020, amid the throes of a global health crisis, LCS Northwest took a bold step and launched A Family Gathering Place relief nursery in Klamath Falls, Oregon. The COVID-19 pandemic prevented the team from serving children in a classroom setting at that time,...
A note to those seeking to get relatives out of Ukraine
So many people are desperate to get family members out of Ukraine right now. We empathize with their plight. And we are preparing to resume welcoming Ukrainian refugees to the Northwest when federal plans for this humanitarian crisis solidify. However, this is a...
