Lund Family Center Programs
From its beginnings in 1890 as a maternity home, Lund Family Center has evolved into a comprehensive treatment facility for pregnant or parenting young women with substance abuse and/or mental health issues and their children; Vermont's oldest and largest private non-profit adoption agency; and a comprehensive family resource as a Parent/Child Center. Lund Family Center’s mission is to help children thrive by serving families with children; pregnant or parenting teens and young adults; and adoptive families.
The Need
Over the past 120 years, Lund has grown rapidly to meet increasing needs in Vermont, specifically:
- Daily, there are 1400 children needing care in the foster care system and 40-50 who need adoptive homes
- The demand for residential treatment has skyrocketed. We have 10-12 women on our waiting list at a given time.
- Teen birth rates have increased for the first time in fourteen years
- Vermont has the second highest rate of illegal drug use among 12 to 25 year olds in the United States
The Numbers
Lund serves over 4,000 people a year and in Fiscal Year 2009 (July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009) the organization provided:
- Therapeutic residential treatment for 83 women and their 80 children;
- Therapeutic outpatient treatment for 65 women, their 32 children and 7 men;
- Quality, affordable childcare and early education for 43 children and their families;
- Teen pregnancy prevention panels to 1,543 teens at 41 schools and community centers;
- Permanent homes for 187 children through adoption services, including 153 children who had been in foster care; comprehensive post-adoption services for 140 individual children; and, search and reunion services for 920 individuals;
- Reach Up welfare to work programming for 404 individuals;
- Home visits to 142 at-risk families; and,
- High school and G.E.D. education for 41 pregnant or parenting students.
Lund Family Center achieves the above with the help of 100 employees and a $6.5 million budget. Eighty two percent of Lund’s funding comes from government contracts and grants. The remaining eighteen percent comes from private sources (10%), fees for service (5%), and the United Way (2%) and is critical to the quality, effectiveness, and scope of Lund’s work.
PO Box 4009