Please join us to End Homelessness...For Good in Sacramento and Yolo counties and throughout Northern California.
In the greater Sacramento region, LSS assists more than 1,200 individuals (youth ages 18-24, college students, seniors, single adults and families with children) through 16 different programs. We ensure each has a stable and safe place to call home and then provide compassionate, nonjudgmental support and access to services so they can get their lives back on track. The need and demand for our expertise and services are growing. We recently opened two new supportive housing sites in Sacramento for families and individuals who were experiencing homelessness. We expanded our youth education and employment services, started providing housing to unhoused college students with small children, launched a youth voices opportunity to give youth with lived experience of homelessness the opportunity to be spokespeople and provide support to their peers and expanded our CalAIM MediCal-connected program with a new health insurance provider--Kaiser Permanente.
We believe that stable housing leads to a more stable life. With housing needs met, it's easier for the individuals we serve to overcome the underlying causes of their past homelessness, such as time in the foster care system, mental illness, disability, chronic disease, substance abuse, poverty, unemployment or surviving a disaster. We offer a hand-up, thus empowering individuals and families to succeed on their journey toward healing and long-term self-sufficiency.
Our work in Northern California dates to 1883 in San Francisco, and while founded by faith organizations, our services are open to all. Today LSS has programs in Sacramento, San Francisco, Contra Costa, Solano, San Joaquin, Shasta, Siskiyou, Stanislaus and Yolo counties. LSS incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 1968 through the merger of several Lutheran social service organizations and maintains its headquarters in Concord, CA.
Throughout the region, LSS utilizes stable housing as the blueprint for stable and successful lives. LSS guides more than 4,500 individuals of all ages every day in rebuilding their lives after they have experienced homelessness and trauma. That's 4,500 Moms, Children, Dads, Grandparents, Teenagers, Young Adults, College Students and Individuals with Disabilities who are not sleeping in doorways, shelters or their cars with no stable, safe place to live.
LSS has considerable success and expertise working with challenged groups 99% of those we serve remain in stable housing each year, even if when they leave our program.
To learn more about the breadth and scope of LSS' work in ending homelessness, please visit www.lssnorcal.org and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.
We invite you to join us in ending homelessness...for good.