About Our Foundation
The Foundation
The Lake County Veterans and Family Services Foundation is a 501c (3) non-profit organization founded in 2012. Originally a Department of Health and Human Services grant, today we are 100% funded by private donations which means we need your help to serve those in our Lake, McHenry and Southern Kenosha County Communities who have served, sacrificed, and continue to struggle emotionally, financially and vocationally.
Financial Disclosure: Click here for the latest filed 990.
Our Mission
Our mission is to connect Service Members and their families with each other and to the resources and benefits they earned and deserve, free and confidentially regardless of discharge status. Through our professionally trained Veteran Peer Specialists, we provide “help from those who’ve been there” for support services, counseling, program resources, and a sense of hope and purpose.
Our Guiding Principles
Peer support is an essential component for our success. Those who have been there are the ones who can truly understand and guide someone through recovery from the impact of their military experiences.
Community support is not bound by legal or traditional military restrictions. When issues emerge that affect our target consumer, we will engage all those affected.
We believe that employment and volunteer work are significant contributors to an improved feeling of worthiness and normalcy for our target consumer. Our focus is to develop these principles of connection in our community for veterans and their families.
Our primary goal prior to, during, and after deployment is to keep families intact, engaged, and flourishing. We acknowledge support persons as a part of the family to be included in the process.
All interventions will be confidential, and any discussion or dissemination of information associated with the interaction of our programs or partners will be consumer-controlled.
Our support of programs that thwart suicide and homelessness is grounded in the value of developing the individual’s hope that things can get and stay better.
We will support programs that recruit, train, and certify the next generation of trauma-informed providers of our transformational care.
Latest News
Veterans with PTSD Do Better at the VA
The men sitting in the conference room at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) clinic in Mare Island, Calif., are all Vietnam veterans in their
Four times as many troops and vets have died by suicide as in combat, study finds
Some combat experiences — like ambushes or killing a civilian — are more closely linked to suicide, a study finds A year-long study of Iraq
2022 Veterans disability compensation rates
Review 2022 Veterans disability compensation rates. Use our compensation benefits rate tables to find your monthly payment amount. We base your monthly payment amount on
Afghan Vet is top Fund-Raiser in Support of LCVFSF’s Fight Against Veteran Suicides
When Afghanistan Veteran Tyler Jones heard about LCVFSF’s Ruck March last Fall, he thought it was the perfect time to support efforts to reduce Veteran
Raine-Shepherd Keynotes 6th Annual Chat n’ Chew as part of Black History Month Celebration
The 6th annual Chat n’ Chew was held February 16 in Waukegan’s JIC Multipurpose Center to celebrate Black History Month and to honor African American
LCVFSF Food Insecurity Program Continues as a 2022 Priority
The Bob Woodruff Foundation (BWF) and Craig Newmark Philanthropies honored LCVFSF by choosing the Foundation as one of the few non-profits to make a close
