Organization Overview
About Lutheran Family Services
A Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic
Regional Impact - Nebraska and Beyond
For over 130 years, Lutheran Family Services (LFS) has worked to strengthen and support people, families, and communities. With its vision of safety, hope, and well-being for all people, LFS brings decades of experience and earned trust to serving people of all ages and situations. LFS has answers for those struggling with life's greatest challenges or support for parents who simply want the best for their children. LFS serves children who are in foster care or those who have experienced sexual abuse, persons with severe and persistent mental illness, substance use issues, and veterans. LFS is the largest refugee resettlement organization in Nebraska and in 2025, marks 50 years of one-on-one guidance as former refugees embrace self-sufficiency. LFS staff members do their work with moral courage, integrity, responsiveness, empowerment, and joy.
A Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic
Regional Impact - Nebraska and Beyond
For over 130 years, Lutheran Family Services (LFS) has worked to strengthen and support people, families, and communities. With its vision of safety, hope, and well-being for all people, LFS brings decades of experience and earned trust to serving people of all ages and situations. LFS has answers for those struggling with life's greatest challenges or support for parents who simply want the best for their children. LFS serves children who are in foster care or those who have experienced sexual abuse, persons with severe and persistent mental illness, substance use issues, and veterans. LFS is the largest refugee resettlement organization in Nebraska and in 2025, marks 50 years of one-on-one guidance as former refugees embrace self-sufficiency. LFS staff members do their work with moral courage, integrity, responsiveness, empowerment, and joy.
Mosah Goodman
Chief Operating Officer & Vice President of Legal
Abigail Johnson
Contract Specialist
AJ Schmidt
Assistant Vice President - Grant Management
Amanda Austin-Mafilika
Therapist
Amanda Nelson
HR Coordinator
Andrew Swanson
IT Project Manager
Both Luak
Employment Specialist
Brennan Taylor
Life Skills Coach
Carly Kennedy
Grant Manager
Carol Tucker
Job Developer
Christina Berry
Diversion Program Specialist/Program Coordinator
Cicely Truitt
Program Coordinator
Cory Rabe
APRN
Cynthia Perez
BIA Legal Acrredited Rep.
Daniela Stein
Clinical Supervisor
David Stein
Controller
Dayna Buckley
Credentialing Specialist
Deanna Borg
Kinship Navigator
Don Circo
Donna Magnuson
Chief Program Officer
DW Stein
Sr Accountant
Elizabeth Hamm
Community Outreach & Training Coordinator
Emily Niess
RSafe Therapist
Erin Bader
Director of Permanency and Well Being Programs
Eve Jarboe
Crisis Response Therapist
Gabriela Rivera
RSafe Therapist
Ginger Tuttle
Admin Assist to VP Legal & Support Services
Hawraa Brown
Kinship Care Program Navigation Specialist
Heather Anders
Peer Support Specialist
Heather Christensen
AVP, HR
Jamie Rich
Therapist III
Jason Glanzer
Legal Intern
Jeff Jensen
Jenny Ratliff
RSafe Coordinator/Therapist
Jeremy Roose
Program Manager/Immigration Attorney
Jessica Covi
Development Database Manager
Jessica Ploen
Employment Training Specialist
Jessie Thomson
Supervisor
Jon Titus
AVP Training and Organizational Development
Judy Hayes
HR Assistant/HRIS Spec.
Julie Fisher-Erickson
AVP of Health and Wellness
Kathy McKenzie
Community Support Specialist
Katie Culbertson
Accountant III
Kendra Sand
Care Navigator
Kim Jones
Therapist
Kim Massara
Counselor
Kim Nelson
Lead In Home Specialist
Kyle Brandyberry
Therapist II
Linda Degner
RSafe Therapist
Lisa Shkolnick
Director of Development
Lisa Tolliver
Research Coordinator
Mark Hoffman
Community Support Specialist
Melanie Dasovic
Senior Employment Specialist
Meredith Heuermann
Intake Specialist
Michaela Dei
Human Services Staff
Molly McKewon
Community Support Specialist
Morgan Mattson
Lead Volunteer Coordinator, Refugee Services
Paige Schnee
Community Support Specialist
Ralph Kellogg
AVP, Human Resources
Samantha Salvatori
Economic Development Program Coordinator
Sherri Levers
Director of Program Finance
Shirley Terry
VP Health & Wellness Services
Susan Pawloski
Program Coordinator
Suzanne McCollister
Clinical Social Worker/MH Therapsit
Tawny Bruyette
Foster Care Supervisor
Terry Graham
Quality Assurance Analyst
Theodore Blessing
Volunteer Coordinator
Tracy Kleffman
Accountant II
Trish Jolly-Duran
Therapist and Program Coordinator
Wendy Patterson
AVP Performance and Quality Improvement
Whitney Geise
RSafe Therapist
Nonprofit Organization
Our Annual Budget is
Over $25,000,000
This is how many employees we have:
335
This is how many board members we have
12
Are you a NAM Employee Assistance Program participant?
No
Best Practice Partnership date achieved
3/10/2022
Have we completed the Guidelines & Principles?
Yes
This is our Guidestar link:
Our NTEE Code is
P40 - Family Services