The LDS Family Service is a non-profit private company owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It offers church members and other marriage and family counseling, addiction and drug dependency counseling, general psychotherapy, and counseling and other services for women or girls experiencing unwanted pregnancies. In addition to individualized counseling, classes are offered to strengthen marriage; strengthen the family; and the Addiction Recovery Program (ARP), based on the 12-step model and Christian values.
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History
In 1919 the organization was created as the Relief Society Service Department by Amy B. Lyman, an official at the Relief Society of the church. In 1969, the organization was renamed Unified Social Services . In 1973, the organization became a separate company from the Church Relief Society and renamed LDS Social Services ; in 1995, the name was changed to LDS Family Services.
LDS Family Services currently has 85 offices located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Japan, South Africa, Philippines, Tonga, Mexico, Brazil and some other South and Central American countries. Staff must have a minimum of a master's degree in behavioral sciences.
Adoption service discontinued
For decades, the LDS Family Service has become one of the largest nonprofit, private, nonprofit organizations in the world. But on June 17, 2014, announced that they will no longer operate a full-scale adoption agency. In contrast, the LDS Family Service plans to divert all resources related to adoption to counseling for biological parents and prospective adoptive parents and partnerships with local agencies for services that are no longer provided. According to Deseret News, agencies cite changes in adoption trends such as reductions in children available for adoption. The LDS Family Service has been the subject of lawsuits regarding father rights in recent adoption cases, and other faith-based adoption institutions are under pressure to facilitate adoption for same-sex couples. But the organization said that none of these issues affected his decision.
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References
- C. Ross Clement (1992). "Social Services" within The Encyclopedia of Mormonism (New York: Macmillan) p.Ã, 1386-1387.
- The Historical Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saints , p.Ã, 1157.
External links
- LDS Family Services: official web page
- Addiction Recovery Program: Addiction Recovery Program (ARP) web page meeting
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