2025–2027 Mission Grant #10
Healing Your Heart — Faith-based Child Counseling
Lutheran Counseling and Family Services of Wisconsin, U.S. | $100,000
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About This Mission Grant
Protecting and nourishing the mental health and well-being of children is the mission of Lutheran Counseling and Family Services of Wisconsin (LCFS). They protect a child’s integrity, self-worth, spiritual well-being, and mental health through professional compassionate Christian counseling.
The outpatient child therapy clinic was expanded in August 2023 and the number of children served by LCFS grew beyond capacity in six months. The clinic needs to expand its services again to meet the demands and needs of countless children in the greater Milwaukee community.
As children get better and stronger, the lives of parents, siblings, and other family members often improve. LCFS also deploys trained therapists to respond to community crises and offer Christ’s healing.
This grant will increase the number of therapists working in the clinic from five to seven, purchase therapeutic toys, and develop promotional materials to present to LCMS churches and groups.
Mission Grant Resources
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Large Print Resources for Grant #10
Leija Elezovic, Lead Child and Family Therapist at Lutheran Counseling and Family Services of Wisconsin, demonstrates play therapy techniques. The child pictured is not an actual LCFS client. The Health and Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which provides data privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical information, limits the way LCFS can use photographs of clients in therapy.
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Leija Elezovic, Lead Child and Family Therapist at LCFS, demonstrates play as a therapeutic technique. The children pictured are not actual LCFS clients. The Health and Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which provides data privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical information, limits the way LCFS can use photographs of clients in therapy.
LCFS child therapy play-room in the Healing Your Heart clinic at its
Wauwatosa, WI location.
Entry to waiting room at LCFS Child Therapy Clinic. The rainbow on the right of the photograph reminds all children and families of Christ's unwavering promises as found in His Word and shown by His love in action through fellow Christians, such as LCFS staff.
Lutheran Counseling and Family Services of Wisconsin has been serving members of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) congregations and the community for the past 128 years. Facing a great demand and need, the organization is seeking to expand its child mental health counseling clinic.
Healing Your Heart — Child Mental Health Therapy Clinic, waiting room
