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Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois announces restructuring plan

The changing landscape of social services “The social services landscape is ever changing as have the needs and challenges of abused and neglected children and their families,” said LCFS Vice President and Chief Program Officer Beverly Jones. “LCFS saw the need to refocus and strengthen our work while remaining true to our mission.” Nine programs are closing and about 100 positions will be eliminated (25 percent of LCFS’ total staff). Impacted programs and communities are listed below. While the timing to wind-down each program depends on several factors, including how to minimize client disruption and coordinate with various stakeholders, LCFS expects to complete the phase out by the end of June. “This has been an agonizing deci-

sion, particularly due to the impact on our clients and their families, as well as our employees whose jobs were eliminated,” said Bertrand. “We are refocusing our mission to what we as an agency are best at, which is serving traumatized children and their families as a child-welfare organization.”

Trying to be all things to all people drained funds LCFS’ current financial challenges resulted from trying to meet the needs of too many diverse groups, which overburdened the organization with trying to find necessary long-term funding needed to sustain those dis-

parate services. In addition, payments from the State of Illinois for core programs such as youth residential services, no longer cover the cost of providing quality services to traumatized children and families. Over the years, LCFS sought private dollars to cover stagnant rates for services that did not

keep up with rising cost of providing services. Return focus to core programs LCFS is grateful for the support of donors, partner agencies and other

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(From left) Addison Trail senior Anna Bajorek, junior Giovanna Scarabaggio and junior Nicole Arquines enjoy cotton candy on May 17, when the AT Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) team hosted its annual end-of-year barbecue to celebrate the successes of the 2016-17 school year. More photos inside this issue.

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