Veteran child care administrator
joins Lutheran Social Services

May 30, 2007

Austin - Armin Steege, veteran marriage and family therapist and child care administrator, recently joined Lutheran Social Services as the vice president of family services.

Steege will oversee operations at New Life Children's Center at Canyon Lake, Krause Children's Center in Katy, Nelson Children's Center in Denton, and the Bokenkamp Children's Shelter in Corpus Christi. The residential treatment centers offer structure, care and therapy for children with severe emotional and behavioral problems, most stemming from past abuse and neglect.

"It is so good to be in a place where the health, welfare and safety of children and adolescence are the top priority," said Steege. "It is great to see an organization that lives out its mission on a day-to-day basis."

He has extensive experience as a licensed professional counselor and supervisor, marriage and family therapist and child care administrator. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at St. Edward's University and the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. As an ordained Lutheran pastor, he moved to Texas for his first parish, a Spanish-speaking parish, and worked for eight years in the Rio Grande Valley in San Juan, Texas.

Steege grew up in the midwest and received his bachelor's degree from Luther College in Iowa and his master of divinity from the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. He then received a Lutheran World Federation scholarship to live and work with the Lutheran Church in Argentina, where he served for one year. He later earned a master's degree from Pan American University in education and a master's from St. Mary's University in marriage and family therapy.

LSS is the social service arm of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. LSS affiliated ministries serve more than 35,000 children, elderly and poor in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Mississippi regardless of religious beliefs, ethnicity, gender or age. Its ministries include children's residential treatment centers, therapeutic foster care, adoption, disaster response, emergency assistance, senior health care, retirement communities and adult day care.

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