Empowering Our Community With Hope Since 1979

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Opportunities For New Beginnings

Everyone needs a fresh start at some point. Whether it’s a family having a hard time putting food on the table, or a refugee trying to find their place in a new world, Lutheran Social Services of Northeast Florida is here to help. For more than 40 years, we’ve empowered hundreds of thousands of people in Duval County to start again.

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What We Do

Everything we do is focused on one simple priority: helping others. And we couldn’t do it without support from caring people in the community—people like you!

Nourishment Network

We feed food-insecure individuals.

Refugee Services

We provide comprehensive support for refugees.

HIV Care and Education

We provide life-saving wraparound services for individuals living with HIV/AIDS.

Representative Payee Services

We manage income for clients, ensuring that rent and other vital bills are paid.

Steps 2
Success

We provide financial coaching and employment services for clients who want to meet their financial and career goals.

Our Impact in 2022

30,288

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food-insecure individuals fed

2,488

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refugees received comprehensive support

1,050

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individuals with HIV/AIDS served

548

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clients at risk of homelessness maintained stable housing

104

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clients received financial and career coaching

After the Taliban consolidated its control over Afghanistan during the country’s civil war, my family and I were forced to leave our homeland and seek refuge in Pakistan. In 2004, I arrived in this country at 8 years old. The Lutheran Social Services Refugee Services team resettled my family in an apartment in Jacksonville and found my mother a job opportunity. My life simply wouldn’t be the same without Lutheran Social Services.