The objective of the welfare program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is to care for those in need while teaching principles that promote self-reliance and self-respect.
Need help getting familiar with what Welfare and Self-Reliance Services offers? Here are two helpful summaries:
- Tool Kit: This two-page document gives a high-level view of the possible temporal needs of Church members matched with the resources that could help them.
- One-Page Overviews: This booklet gives brief, one-page overviews of Church resources.
The Welfare and Self-Reliance Resources section of the Church website provides information on the following:
Immediate Needs
- Self-Reliance Plan
- Fast-Offering Assistance
- Food and Commodities
- Refugee and Immigrant Support
- JustServe (in Approved Countries)
- Emergency Response Funding
- Helping Hands
- Emergency Psychosocial Services
- Humanitarian Initiatives
Education and Employment
- BYU–Pathway Worldwide
- Perpetual Education Fund (in Approved Countries)
- Benson Scholarship (Limited Availability)
- EnglishConnect 1, 2, and 3
- Gospel Literacy
- Stake Welfare and Self-Reliance Resource Centers
- Education for Better Work (Self-Reliance Group)
- Find a Better Job (Self-Reliance Group)
- Starting and Growing My Business (Self-Reliance Group)
- Job Training: Deseret Industries (DI) (Limited Availability)
- Job Training: Development Counseling Services (Limited Availability)
- Employment Services
Emotional Health
- Life Help at ChurchofJesusChrist.org
- Family Services Leader Consultation
- Abuse Help Line
- Healing Through the Savior: The Addiction Recovery Program
- Counseling Services (Limited Availability)
- Strengthening Marriage; Strengthening the Family (Courses)
- Finding Strength in the Lord: Emotional Resilience (Self-Reliance Group)
Preparedness
- Home Storage Centers (Limited Availability)
- Personal Finances (Self-Reliance Group)
- Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (Limited Availability)
- Stake, Ward, and Family Emergency Plans
- Temporal Preparedness Guide for Individuals and Families (Area Specific)
Learn more about the history and programs of the Church welfare system.
There is a young woman in my Ward, SLC 2nd Ward, who is from the Congo in Africa. She wants to do some hygiene kits (for their periods) for girls “back home”. Is this something the church could help her out with? Can I help make a connection? I have been in a Ward where we made those kinds of kits but I never got the pattern or instructions on how to make them. Do you have a pattern and instructions you could send me?