FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN
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Mission Statement
Helping Families Thrive
About This Cause
Family Service Lincoln (FSL) was founded in 1891, and over the past century has worked to meet the needs of children and their families. Currently, FSL supports families with out-of-school programming, school-based therapy, support services, nutrition education, and safe and consistent housing. FSL services have adapted to the needs of the community, summarized in the mission statement: Helping Families Thrive. FSL is a well-established organization with 180 employees and full accreditation from the Council on Accreditation (COA). FSL owns and maintains an 18,000 sf administration building in the South of the Haymarket District, a five-unit apartment complex for transitional housing, and manages programming at over two dozen offsite locations in Lincoln and surrounding communities. Governance and oversight of FSL is provided by a 21-member volunteer board of directors with diverse skill sets, lived experience, and expertise relative to the organization’s six tracks of programming and administrative duties. As of 2024, Family Service Lincoln operates within six overarching programs: Behavioral Health, the Child Care Food Program, Community Crops, Housing and Support Services, WIC, and Youth Development. • Behavioral Health provides school-based individual, group, and family therapeutic services to strengthen families and support youth through skill-building and self-advocacy throughout the Lincoln Public School District and surrounding counties. Behavioral Health Services are based in 39 locations and have an annual average caseload of 550 youth. The program tracks a success rate of 75%, signifying that the student being treated has met all their goals by the end of the school year. • CCFP (Child Care Food Program), is a program through USDA, which provides training, support, and reimbursement to licensed home childcare providers for serving healthy meals to promote nutrition across Nebraska. Through annual surveying, an average of 94% of providers report that the food program better assists the centers in feeding the children more nutritious meals. In 2024, 10,156 children in 659 at-home day cares were provided nutrition support. • Community Crops provides education and experiences to grow local food through community gardens, production greenhouses, and incubator farms. FSL acquired the nonprofit Community Crops as a sixth program in 2023, continuing its 20 years of community programming. Community Crops is a regional leader in agriculture entrepreneurship and community wellness, supporting ten community gardens, a virtual and in-person education series, and three farm sites that act as business incubators for the land tenants. In 2024, Community Crops supported 187 families in the Garden Program and 12 farmers beginning their agriculture businesses. • Housing and Support Services provides solutions to homelessness through prevention, financial assistance, and case management support for families and transition-age youth. This program supports over 85 households every month. FSL is a leader in the community, with staff members serving as Chair on the Lincoln Homeless Coalition alongside other area nonprofits and public health agencies to create a network of support services. In 2024, FSL’s Housing and Support Services program worked with 130 households: a quarter of these families received critical support to continue essential utilities to their homes and 97 families were transitioned from temporary to permanent housing. • WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) provides nutrition education, supplemental foods, and health care referrals for pregnant and postpartum women and their children up to age five. Since 1979, FSL has administered the federal Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to provide healthy foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant and postpartum women and their children up to age five. In 2024, 2,268 families were better able to provide nutritious meals to their growing family with support from FSL’s WIC program. • Youth Development provides safe and enriching before-and-after school programs at 21 schools across the city, non-school day childcare, and summer camps. Youth Development uses appropriate curriculums for each age group designed to meet their emotional, social, physical, and intellectual needs. In 2024, Youth Development enrolled 2,852 students in before-and-after school programs and 121 students in summer care programs.