Lutheran Social Services of Nevada

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LATEST NEWS:
Summer 2007	LSSN Newsletter
09/08/2007	Choose and Move Health Festival
10/19/2007 10/20/2007	Elisabeth von Trapp Performs Concerts to Benefit Lutheran Social Services of Nevada
	"Build a Bike" Event Hosted by CISCO at Mandalay Bay Event Center


Emergency Food and Services Program
The Emergency Services Division offers emergency food and hygiene assistance to people in need. Additionally, the program offers rental assistance, birth certificate, utility and employment support. These services are coupled with case management support to help people on their path to self sufficiency. The Katrina Aid Today Program offers long term recovery case management services to evacuees in Southern Nevada. The Emergency Food and Services Program offers an emergency food pantry with hygiene items, satellite food pantries for senior citizens, birth certificates, holiday food programs, as well as a school backpack program, and other seasonal programs designed to meet the needs of our community. The program also provides direct financial employment support, employment related transportation assistance, rental assistance, and utility assistance when funds are available. All of our services are coupled with comprehensive case management assistance. In addition, bilingual staff is available to assist our clients.
Disaster Relief – Long Term Recovery The goal of our current Katrina Aid Today Program is to provide assistance to people displaced after the hurricane disasters (United Methodist Committee on Relief, UMCOR). Help in the form of housing assistance, as well as providing household and personal items for people who have relocated to Southern Nevada as a result of the storms. LSSN will assist approximately 160 families (heads of households) with services and case management assistance through October 2007 when the program ends. Healing after a disaster and helping people obtain self sufficiency is what LSSN is all about.
The following services are available for people in need when funds are available: Rental assistance Utility assistance (Nevada Power only) Employment Support: Identification Work Cards Birth Certificates Bus Passes Please note that no assistance is provided for Southwest Gas, telephone, cable, or internet service of any kind.
Rental Assistance Form