This site requires javascript to display properly. Please enable javascript to improve your viewing experience. Trauma trained staff and volunteers empower individuals to take charge of their recovery and provide a safe place to access resources to address critical basic needs. Our center provides on-site direct Mental Health services, facilitates access to psychiatric services, and provides stability so they can become active members of the community.
These trauma-informed, recovery-oriented programs promote wellness, encourage self-direction, and foster hope. For nearly a decade, we have seen the needs of our community grow from 25 people per day to per day. LSS provided crisis services and resources while Catholic Charities managed the shelter side of care. With the increase in this population, we realize that one place or group cannot serve the diverse needs of people experiencing homelessness.
Today, as the country is starting to reopen and more people are vaccinated, LSS is able to return to daytime hours. New and necessary innovations like Telehealth and increased safety measures have allowed us to stay open for service during this unprecedented time. It is clear for LSS that moving forward we must do things differently in order to empower our participants to seek and ultimately realize a life that is truly their own.
Resources are limited, preventing good organizations with strong programs from fully realizing their missions of feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, loving the lost and lonely, and teaching our neighbors the skills they need to live independently. We imagine what LSS and our community partners will be able to accomplish by pooling our strengths and resources together in collaboration around the goal to encircle our mutual participants with the comprehensive solutions they need to thrive.
Multiple community partners are co-creating to redevelop the day services to a well-coordinated system of support that wholly addresses the needs of people including and beyond homelessness. This new approach to service delivery meets the social, emotional, and economic needs that lead to self-sufficiency. In , LSS began offering these services at S. Barstow St. We offer the Off the Square Club to serve the community as a daytime resource center in Madison, Wisconsin.
