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Lutheran Family Services and the Center for Adoption Support and Education is offering a Training for Adoption Competence course for licensed mental health professionals. The course provides them with the clinical skills they need to…

Omaha, NE – September 12, 2013 – The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) will honor Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska as an Angel in Adoption™ at an awards ceremony on October 8 and gala on October…

Each pumpkin represents a Nebraska child waiting for adoption September 27, 2013 (Omaha) — For the fifth year a great pumpkin tree will “rise” over the Village Pointe Center Court! This month-long community event raises…

It took me a really long time to get organized. Not this morning or this week—I mean since high school. I was one of those irritating kids who pretty much winged it through my early…

Moving up a grade is one thing. Moving up to the next tier is entirely another. The next tier, of course, is the shift between elementary school and middle school. Then, the jump from middle…

Men hold incredible power over the future their daughters will experience. Sometimes, I have to wonder how many fathers realize that. And how many grieve for realizing it too late? I’m not just talking about…

July 10, 2013 (North Platte, Nebraska) – Veterans, active military and reservists returning home to the North Platte area now have local access to specialized mental health and peer support. Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska…

Back in my day, all the cool kids wore alligators on their shirts. It was an essential indicator of class status. You simply had to have the little Izod Lacoste symbol. No other animal would…

June 7, 2013 (Omaha, Nebraska) – Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska (LFS) has named Todd L. Reckling, MPA its Vice President of Children, Family and Community Services.   Reckling came to LFS in September of…