FY 2022-2023 Annual Report

2023 At A Glance

Each day at LFSRM we strive to provide support to families throughout the Rocky Mountain region. Our work continues to grow as we continuely look for new resources and services to help strengthen our communities.

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6312 Refugees & Asylee Clients Served

176 Children/Youth in Foster Care Served - 22,394 Nights of Care

73 URM Children Youth in Foster Care served - 23,019 Nights of Care

53 Older Adult Wards with LFSRM Guardianship

18 Adoptive Placements

18 Birth Parents Receiving Pregnancy Options counseling

6,146 Children and 855 Families served through Family Support & Education

216 Migrants & Asylum seekers served in Las Cruces and Denver

1,375 Households served through Disaster relief

Where We Serve

Services Provided by Location

Albuquerque
Refugee & Asylee
Immigration Legal Services

Billings
Refugee & Asylee

Colorado Springs
Adoption
Foster Care
KPC Respite Center
SafeCare Parent Support
Pregnancy Options Colorado
Refugee & Asylee

Denver
Adoption
Foster Care
Immigration Legal Services
Older Adult
Pregnancy Options Colorado
Refugee & Asylee

Fort Collins
Adoption
Foster Care
Parenting Education & Support
Pregnancy Options Colorado

Greeley/Evans
CareHouse
Parenting Education & Support
Refugee & Asylee
SafeTouch

Las Cruces
Refugee & Asylee
Immigration Legal Services

Salt Lake City
Immigration Legal Services

ADOPTION & PREGNANCY OPTIONS COUNSELING

Since 1948 we have helped to build families through infant, designated, and international adoption by providing support, education, and counseling to parents.

INTERSTATE COMPACT (ICPC) REVIEWS
LFSRM is contracted by the State of Colorado to review all Interstate Compacts for the Placement of Children related to adoptive placements entering Colorado. During Fiscal Year 2023 the program reviewed 166 ICPC placement packets to ensure the safely of children and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Foster Care

At LFSRM, we believe there is no such thing as “other people’s kids.” Through our Foster Care Program, we work diligently with our families to support them through the foster process and beyond. We provide skilled, caring substitute families for children unable to live with their birth families.

Foster parents receive training to gain skills on how o responsively support these youth. A case manager is assigned to each family to provide specialized support that helps families navigate the lives of these children.

URM Foster Care

Unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) are children under the age of 18 who have been resettled in the United States without a parent or relative to care for them. LFSRM is uniquely equipped to offer these children a new chance at life following significant hardship, loss, and trauma.

REFUGEE & ASYLEE

Since 1975 LFSRM Refugee & Asylee Programs have helped people who have been uprooted by persecution and violence work towards self-sufficiency through essential resettlement services, including: housing, employment, English language, and cultural orientation. Some locations have other grant-funded programs .

Refugee Microenterprise Development (MED)

Our MED program provides training, technical assistance, and loans for Refugees and Asylees to start, maintain, and expand small businesses. The program helps to create refugee owned small businesses, generate jobs, increase incomes, and contribute to the local economy.

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Immigration Legal Services

Our Immigration Legal Services expanded and now provides services throughout Colorado, New Mexico, and in Utah with attorneys on staff in Denver, Albuquerque, Las Cruces, and Salt Lake City. The program also provides SRS fingerprinting in Denver, Colorado Springs, Albuquerque, Las Cruces, and Salt Lake City and providing fingerprinting for 76 individuals over the past fiscal year.

The LFSRM Immigration Legal Services team works with individual and families to review immigration history and portential forms of relief. Research shows newcomers with represntation fare better at every stage of the immigration process.

Family Support and Education

Every family has strengths and every family can use support. We believe that every child desrves to grow up in a safe, nurturing environment. Through these programs families gain skills to provide a safe home.

FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMS

KPC Respite Center: Offers temporary crisis and planned childcare for infants and young children in Colorado Springs providing relief and support to parents and guardians.

CareHouse: Provides a comfortable, nurturing environment for families and children to have supervised family time, monitored family time, and safe exchanges in northern Colorado.

PARENT EDUCATION PROGRAMS

SafeCare Colorado: Offers in-home, voluntary services that support families in Colorado Springs in gaining skills to provide a safe home, address child health needs, and engage in positive interactions with their children under 5 years.

Parenting Education: Provides a number of different classes in Larimer and Weld Counties to teach parents and provide support as they learn parenting skills.

CHILD/YOUTH EDUCATION & EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS

SafeTouch Child Safety Class: This class concentrates on how children and adolescents can protect themselves from any type of abusive or unwanted touch.

OLDER ADULT PROGRAM

Our Older Adult Program serves unbefriended patients and the facilities that care for them. Unbefriended patients are patients who have no written outline of their care preference and no identified family or friends to assist in medical decision-making when needed.

For patients whose families need assistance petitioning the court to establish guardianship, our team contracts with hospitals to provide support to those families in their efforts of establishing guardianship for their loved ones.

Emergency Relief and Support

LFSRM provides light-touch case management and resource navigation as well as limited financial assistance to migrants and asylum seekers who arrived in Las Cruces, NM and in Denver, CO. Programs are funded through a mix of Global Refuge Welcome Center funding and private grants and contributions.

*Does not include light-touch information and referrals.

Disaster Relief

Disaster Relief began its Marshall Fire Recovery Navigation program in July 2022 to provide Disaster Care Management assistance to residents impacted by the Marshall Fire and Straight Line Wind event. The program offers basic resource referral to any household impacted by the fire or wind event and more intensive services to households needing assistance with developing a recovery plan; applying for available funding for unmet needs, repair or rebuild; advocacy and navigation assistance; language assistance; direct assistance for immediate and urgent unmet needs, and other identified needs.

Congregation Partner of the Year 2023

Ascension Lutheran
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Community Parter of the Year 2023

Anne Fulton, Community College of DenverWatch Video

Engaging Our Communities

We are grateful for the willingness of our volunteers to give of their time, energy, and talents. Their support allows us to continue fulfilling our mission and serve thousands of people through the Rocky Mountain region each year.

2023 Volunteers of the Year Don Orange & Reed Koehn

Program Area	Number of Volunteers	Volunteer Hours	Value*
Foster Care	7	45	$1,348
Prevention Services	21	658	$19,708
Refugee & Asylee Program Colorado Springs	182	4,514	$135,194
Refugee & Asylee Program Denver	266	10,112	$302,854
Refugee & Asylee Program Greeley	28	1,064	$31,867
Refugee & Asylee Program Albuquerque & Las Cruces	37	1,314	$39,354
Total Value of Volunteers	541	17,707	$530,325

In 2023, the value of one hour of volunteer time = $29.95, per Independent Sector
*Figure rounded to the nearest dollar

Financial information

Fiscal Year 2022-2023
(July 1, 2022 -June 30, 2023)

Board of Directors

Mr. Tom Brook
Contractual Fractional Services Management
Denver Metro Colorado

Mr. Joe DesJardin
Civil Engineer
Southern Colorado

Mr. Bruce Fear
Civil Engineer
Denver Metro Colorado

Pastor Nicolé Ferry
Senior Pastor
New Mexico

Carol Garrington
Speech Pathologist
Denver Metro Colorado

Ms. Amy Johnson
Project Manager/Engineer
Northern Colorado

Ms. Lori Ann Fujioka Knutson
First Assistant Attorney General, Contracts and Procurement Unit
Denver Metro Colorado

Ms. Margarita Reyes
Lay Leader
Denver Metro Colorado

Mr. Jeff Solomonson
Financial Consultant
Northern Colorado

Mr. Eric Stolp
Financial Consultant
Southern Colorado

Ms. Marjorie (Margie) Versen, Chair
Chief Financial Officer
Denver Metro Colorado

Mr. Frank Virginia
Director of Technical Services
Denver Metro Colorado

Ms. Nga Vuong-Sandoval
U.S. Refugee Advisory Board Project Manager
Denver Metro Colorado

Mr. Peter Whitmore
Attorney
Denver Metro Colorado

Board of Trustrees

Dr. William Ayen
Southern Colorado
Instructor (Retired)

Mr. Tom Brook
Denver Metro Colorado
Contractual Fractional Services Management

Mr. Don Filegar
Denver Metro Colorado

Ms. Jeanne Maloney
Denver Metro Colorado

Mr. Greg Bickle, Chair
Denver Metro Colorado
Financial Representative

Mr. Joe DesJardin
Southern Colorado
Civil Engineer

Mr. Keith LaShier
Denver Metro Colorado
Real Estate Consultant

Ms. Karen Spies
Denver Metro Colorado
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