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

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Mundelein After School

Mundelein After School Coalition Veterans Dinner A Smash! Sponsored by the Mundelein Police Department and the Mundelein After School Coalition (MASC), the annual appreciation dinner

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New Lake County Veterans website

New Lake County Veterans website includes a New Benefit Service Capability Lake County Veterans and Family Services Foundation just introduced its new website www.lcvetsfoundation.org and

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Veterans Crisis Hotline

New 988 Veterans Crisis Hotline VA announced veterans now have the option to Dial 988 then Press 1 to connect with caring, qualified responders for

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Ruckup22 Ruck March

“Ruckup22” draws live and virtual marchers to raise awareness for service member suicides The “weather gods” cooperated on Saturday morning, September 17, as 32 marchers

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