When you partner with Lutheran Family Services, you share your gifts and abilities to help those less fortunate.
Please consider volunteering your time, sharing your expertise, becoming a prayer partner or making a financial gift.
Other ways to support LFS include:
- Provide child supervision for our Centers for Healthy Families’ Nurturing Parent Program classes or Right Turn support groups
- Mentoring or sponsoring a refugee family
Volunteer opportunities:
Refugees
If you are interested in volunteering with refugees, please visit VolunteerMatch for a complete listing of opportunities in Omaha and Lincoln, and click here to begin the application process.
Child Supervision
Centers for Healthy Families: We are always in need of child supervision at our Centers for Healthy Families in North Omaha, Fremont and Council Bluffs. Caring for young children and infants and opportunity to interact through quality play in a childcare setting while their parents participate in LFS parenting program activities.
Post Adoption Support Groups: Volunteers are needed to care for children while parents and guardianship parents of adopted children attend a Right Turn® support group. This position allows parents to attend support group and have the peace of mind their children are being well taken care of.
Meetings are held once a month at Nebraska Children’s Home Society at 4939 S. 118th St. in Omaha, Nebraska.
Click here to view LFS volunteer opportunities.
To begin the volunteer application process, please click here to begin the application process.
Join Fremont Family Friends
Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska with Fremont Family Friends create and restore safe and happy childhoods.
Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska opened the Building Families Boutique (now the Rupert Dunklau Center for Healthy Families®) in 2007—on the same Fremont site where LFS was founded in 1892. The Center focuses on early intervention, healthy parenting education and support of struggling families with children under age five, plus expectant mothers. The Center serves hundred of parents and children annually.
This innovative human care programming is designed to help children and their parents in many ways, but with one goal: each child shall be nurtured, secure and prepared to succeed in learning and in life.
By joining Fremont Family Friends, you can help in many ways, including with:
- “Fremont Family Friends Dinner” – Annual fundraising event to raise awareness and support for the critical work done at the Rupert Dunklau Center for Healthy Families®.
- Advisory Council – An opportunity to get involved and give input at quarterly meetings with the program coordinator to discuss various outreach and program needs.
- Sara’s Boutique – Gather diapers, seasonal clothing, and other baby supplies for Sara’s Boutique, either individually or in a “giving circle.”
- Childcare -Read to and play with children in the Center while their parents participate in classes. Staff supervision is provided and day and evening opportunities are available.
- Pat on the Back – Reward struggling parents who have worked hard to better their family within our Centers for Healthy Families®.
- Share Your Skill – Read to children, help with scrapbooking or teach a budgeting class. Whatever your skill is, we can help you share it with those who want to learn.
To begin the volunteer application process, please complete and email the following forms to hr@lfsneb.org.
Other Volunteer Opportunities
Click here to view LFS volunteer opportunities.
To begin the volunteer application process, please click here.
Questions? Please contact our Volunteer Management Coordinator at (402) 978-5665 or fill out the form below.
