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child & family Child and Family

Our Child and Family service area includes a diverse 8,008
services group of programs. These include: Foster Care, Persons Served

Independent Living Plus, Youth Residential, New
Americans (resettle-ment and employment), Community

Center Saginaw, Lutheran Adoption Service and several Thousands of Michigan children
family preserva-tion and behavioral health programs. need temporary homes where they
can feel safe, secure and loved.
Some highlights from 2019 include: Some are victims of abuse or
neglect. Some have been abandoned
• 849 people served through our Behavioral Health by their birth families. Samaritas
program. has been providing services for
• 1,323 people served through Family Preservation. children and families since 1934.
• 843 children served in our School Impact
Program for New Americans. We are Michigan’s largest private
• We had 416 families reunified through our foster care organization, helping

Family Reunification Program. more than 800 children daily. Our
• 394 adoptions through Lutheran Adoption experienced staff are passionate
about their desire to help foster
Services. families create a better life for the
The largest private Foster Care and Adoption organization in • 14,268 total meals served through the children in their care.

Michigan, Samaritas also helps more families through reunification Community Center Saginaw.
and intervention services to keep children safe at home.

Through Samaritas’s Family Preservation programs, we seek to

guide parents toward creating a satisfying, nurturing home life for
the entire family, to keep children in their natural setting with

their biological parents.