Bethany-Children & Families

Lutheran Services in Iowa is a church-based organization that provides residential, home health care and social services. It offers home study, national and international adoption, and post- and pre-placement counseling services for adoptive and birth parents. Lutheran Services in Iowa provides Crisis Child Care, a short-term program that focuses on foster home residential care services for children of families facing catastrophic situations. It also offers several community-based prevention programs that emphasize parenting skills training, child abuse risk factors reduction, and screening and identification of at-risk children. The organization s home health care services include medication management, therapy and personal care services, as well as assistance with meal preparation, bathing, housekeeping and laundry. Additionally, it provides short-term respite care services for people who suffer with physical disabilities and delinquency prevention, crisis intervention and family advocacy programs. Lutheran Services in Iowa maintains one of its facilities in Dubuque, Iowa.

Bethany for Children and Families, based in Davenport, Iowa, was founded in 1899 as a safe haven for neglected and abandoned children. Now, the organization is a multi-service agency, led by a group of volunteer board of directors offering programs in Rock Island, Mercer and Henry counties in Illinois, and Scott, Muscatine, Cedar, Clinton and Jackson counties in Iowa. Bethany s services include adoption, after-school programs, day treatment for adolescents, foster care, in-home counseling, Juvenile Justice Diversion services, prevention, education and counseling services for families, services to teen parents, supportive living services for adolescents, therapeutic recreation and Ways to Work - family loan program.