Shannon Doyle, financial education program manager with LSS Financial Counseling, talked with Pam Lundell on KTIS Radio's Community Spotlight program about the wide range of services available, including Debt Management Plans -- an effective way to tackle credit card debt -- as well as identity theft prevention strategies. Check it out!

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Shannon Doyle with LSS Financial Counseling appeared on MPR News with Angela Davis with Chris Farrell, nationally-acclaimed personal finance expert and MPR Senior economics contributor, to talk about emotional spending: why we do it and how to take control of it. Check it out!

The Greater Pine Island Alliance, a nonprofit organization focused on Hurricane Ian recovery efforts, hosted a free spring break camp in March designed to support elementary school-aged children from Greater Pine Island and Matlacha who have been affected by disaster.  

About half of all credit card users are not sure what the interest rates are on their credit cards, according to CreditCards.com. Shannon Doyle, financial educator with LSS Financial Counseling, shared that the Annual Percentage Rate on your credit card is an important number to know because it can significantly impact your financial wellbeing, especially over time. She appeared on WATW Radio in Ashland, Wisconsin to inform listeners on strategies to avoid the high cost of credit. 

In the February 23 Star Tribune online story on increasing consumer debt, Dan Park with LSS Financial Counseling said that fewer people were making appointments for financial counseling during the pandemic due to the pause in federal student loan payments, banks implementing temporary forbearance plans and stimulus checks. Now that those programs have ended, LSS financial counselors are busy.

Rosa cares for her three children while juggling a full-time job.  “Hundred percent struggling, to be completely honest,” she said.  The single mom turned to the Mankato Area Crisis Nursery. It’s a free emergency childcare program through Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota offering support in Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet and Waseca counties.  Read the story here. 

Kate LePage, a Safe Harbor regional navigator and program manager with LSS, shared with listeners on WJON Radio in St. Cloud what Lutheran Social Service is doing to prevent sex trafficking and support survivors during National Human Trafficking Prevention Month in January.