An 18 page paper. Lutheran Refugee Service is part of the Lutheran Family Service organization. This essay provides a brief historical overview, mission, vision and value statements, comments about human resource management, and a SWOT analysis of Lutheran Refugee Service with an emphasis on services in Nebraska. The paper also comments on leadership, fiscal management and responsibility, marketing, the impact of government and ethical and legal issues. Bibliography lists 19 sources.
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they became Lutheran Family Service and Immanuel Social Service, respectively; ten years later, the two institutions were merged (Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, 2008). Meanwhile, in 1918, the National
Lutheran Council was founded in New York to address some of the issues of immigration and refugee resettlement following the war (Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, 2008). The
agency explains that a refugee is a person outside of the U.S. who want protection, many are in refugee camps outside their own home country (Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska
(b), n.d.). This contrasts with an immigrant who voluntarily leaves their home country to live in the U.S. (Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska (b), n.d.). The third category is asylees
who have left their home country and are already living in the U.S. and want to remain here because they, too, fear persecution (Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska (b), n.d.).
There are more than 15 million people who are seeking asylum or who are refugees in the world (Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska (b), n.d.). The largest population is in
Africa and the Near East (Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska (b), n.d.). Sadly, at least 80 percent of these folks are women and children (Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska (b),
n.d.). In 1939, the organization established a Welfare Department that included "an office for the rehabilitation and placement of Lutheran refugees" (Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, 2008) under the direction
of a Lutheran pastor, Clarence E. Krumbholz (Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, 2008) During their first year, they helped 522 refugees (Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, 2008). Following the Second
World War, there were thousands of displaced persons across Europe, one-third of whom were Lutherans (Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, 2008). To address this challenge, the National Lutheran Council established