News and Events
Exciting events happen all the time at LCFS!  Check here often for news, updates and inspiring stories about our organization and the people we serve.
West Philadelphia Senior Community Center's Spring Trip Lineup

The West Philadelphia Senior Community Center is pleased to announce an exciting schedule of trips this spring season! 

Pinegrove Resort/The Dude Ranch-Monday, June 21st, 2010-Friday, June 25th, 2010.  Cost $375 for a double or triple room; $475 for a single room.  Indoor and outdoor activities at a dude ranch in the Catskill Mountains of New York!

Crab and Fun Fest, Annapolis, Maryland- Saturday, July 24th, 2010.  Cost: $95 (based on 40 people.)  Includes unlimited beverages, all you can eat crabs, open pit beef, smoked turkey breast and more.  Entertainment, games and prizes. 

3 Day Atlantic City Trip,  Atlantic City Hilton- Wednesday, September 8th, 2010-Friday, September 10th, 2010  Cost: $310 for a single, $226 for a double and $206 for a triple.  ($20 additional charge for non-members.)  Includes transportation, baggage, hotel accomodations, two meals and three coin packages! 

Call Julia Diggs at 215-386-0379, x. 7902, for more information about these trips and to sign up!  
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    LCFS Receives Three Year Grant for Immigrant Health Initiative

    Lutheran Children and Family Service recently received a multi-year grant from The Pew Charitable Trust to serve immigrant children and their families in Southeastern Pennsylvania. The $140,000 award will support LCFS’ ongoing efforts to promote greater utilization of behavioral health services by refugee and immigrant children and their families.

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    Flea Market to Benefit LCFS Foster Children

    It's difficult for a person outside the social work sector to begin to imagine the many expenses of providing care for foster children.  Often, these children are removed from their homes with little more than the clothing on their backs, and need additional clothing, shoes, school supplies, and so much more.  Facing major budget cuts and other monetary tribulations, the foster care staff of LCFS have stepped up to the plate by organizing a flea market to raise money to offset some of these many costs! 

    LCFS Foster Care is holding a flea market at the Rising Sun office, located at 5401 Rising Sun Avenue, Philadelphia, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Thursday, October 29th.  Clothing, household items, office supplies and more will be offered for sale!

    Vendors are welcome to rent a table for $25.  Please contact Madeline Amparo at madelinea@lcfsinpa.org for details! 
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      Dr. Denise Berte Lends Expertise to New Book!

      LCFS is proud to announce Dr. Denise Berte's inclusion in an important new multi-disciplinary text.  Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees: Legal Issues, Clinical Skills and Advocacy is edited by Fernando Chang-Muy, the first director of the Liberty Center for Survivors of Torture and includes a chapter authored by Dr. Berte, who directs the Center currently.  This comprehensive book teaches tactics for addressing immigrant issues in a social work framework.  To learn more about this work, please click here. 

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        LCFS Refugee Resettlement: Putting an End to Newcomer Employment Discrimination
        The LCFS Refugee Resettlement recently received a funding award from the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Special Council to disseminate information throughout Pennsylvania about fair employment practices under the US Immigration and Nationality Act INA) of 1952. Under this act, which prohibits employers from knowingly hiring undocumented workers, employers may not discriminate against work-eligible newcomers based on ethnicity or national origin.  The DOJ’s Office of Special Council for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices was established by Congress to educate the public about immigration-related employment discrimination. 
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        Liberty Center for Survivors of Torture is in the Women's Way Grantee Spotlight!
        Since 2001, Liberty Center for Survivors of Torture, a Women's Way Community Women’s Fund grantee, has offered services to restore hope and provide healing to over 400 torture survivors, from over 45 countries, who currently reside in Pennsylvania, Delaware and southern New Jersey. The Center offers survivors the opportunity to regain their sense of self-worth, renew their ability to enjoy life, openly express their fears and hopes and face the future with confidence.  Click here to read the inspiring story of survivor Linette that Women's Way has featured on their website. 
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          Four More at the Table
          Check out the article below for a truly inspiring story of a Burmese family of four that escaped persecution in their native Myanmar and have found a welcoming home in Lancaster.  Thanks to the efforts of LCFS and others, the Hmung family is thriving in their new home.
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          Special Interpreter Visa Iraqis Urgently Need Your Help
          Lutheran Children and Family Service (LCFS), an affiliate of Liberty Lutheran Services, seeks congregations and individuals to assist Iraqi Interpreters with Special Interpreter Visa status (SIVs) who have fled to Philadelphia and other parts of the United States.  The interpreters are being persecuted in Iraq for giving assistance to the American war effort.  They arrive in the United States with little or no notice and with extremely limited resources.  The SIVs are in desperate need of shelter, food and other assistance.
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          Adoption Story Not Just a Matter of Chance
           Rich Gitlen, Executive Director of Lutheran Children and Family Service (LCFS), an affiliate of Liberty Lutheran Services (LLS) is pleased to announce the inclusion of Xu Xiaofeng’s adoption story in Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul, published by HCI.  Xu Xiaofeng is an adorable and friendly child who had previously been on a waiting child list for nearly two years in a Chinese orphanage because he has albinism. Xu finally found “a family that was meant to be” halfway around the world when Pam McGonigle and John Stevens of Ardmore, Pennsylvania sought to adopt.
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          Lancaster Refugee Service Achieves Immigration Accreditation
          Lutheran Children and Family Service (LCFS), an affiliate of Liberty Lutheran Services (LLS), is pleased to announce their recent Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) accreditation for the Lutheran Refugee Services of Central Pennsylvania office, which was approved April 23 by the Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review.  Lutheran Social Services of South Central Pennsylvania, who partnered with LCFS to start this service, provided funding which enabled LCFS to lay the groundwork for this service, paying for staff time and immigration law trainings, an immigration law library, and immigration software needed for accreditation.   
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