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CCUSA writes DHS appropriations subcommittees in support of EFSP, DRF, NFIP
News - April 25, 2016 - CCUSA urges Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittees to maintain funding at $120 million for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) and to keep EFSP’s administration at FEMA; to fund federal assistance programs under the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF); and to direct FEMA to provide a mechanism that would bring flood insurance to low income populations.…
CCUSA president and CEO disappointed in Trump administration’s decision on TPS for Salvadorans
News - January 8, 2018 - Alexandria, Va. – Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) President and CEO, Sister Donna Markham, OP, PhD, expressed her deep disappointment in the Trump administration’s decision today to not renew the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Salvadorans in the U.S. This decision will impact more than 250,000 people who have until September 2019 to return to a…
CCUSA letter to Congress urges certain priorities for 2018 Farm Bill
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2018/02/05/priorities-for-the-2018-farm-bill/
News - February 5, 2018 - Catholic Charities USA, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Relief Services, Catholic Rural Life, and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul wrote to the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives urging members to maintain certain priorities for U.S. food and agriculture policy as they consider the 2018 Farm Bill. The…
CCUSA requests funds for critical programs that serve poor, vulnerable
News - May 7, 2019 - Catholic Charities USA asked both the House and the Senate to allocate robust funding for critical programs that serve persons and families who are poor and vulnerable in the fiscal year 2020 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill. The programs include the Unaccompanied Alien Children Program, Head Start, the Social Services Block…
CCUSA urges funding of Youth Mentoring Grant Program, Second Chance Act Program
News - April 8, 2016 - CCUSA urged both the House and Senate leadership of their respective Appropriations Subcommittees on Commerce, Justice, and Science to support the funding in fiscal year 2017 of the Youth Mentoring Grant program and the Second Chance Act program. Read the full letters.
CCUSA responds to proposed HHS rule that would safeguard service to those in need
News - November 1, 2019 - Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) issued a statement in response to the announcement today of the proposed HHS rule on religious freedom and nondiscrimination in grant processes. Read the full statement.
The “Herods” of our times
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/about-us/prayers-reflections/the-herods-of-our-times/
Prayer & Reflection - December 28, 2023 - Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt and stay there until I tell you.Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him. As we reflect on today’s reading from Matthew, we see Jesus incarnate in the families fleeing for their lives and arriving at our southern border. We see Jesus…
CCUSA, USCCB write Congress about budget agreement
News - January 17, 2018 - Catholic Charities USA and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops sent a letter to both houses of Congress urging members to pass a budget agreement that draws a “circle of protection” around the many programs that serve poor people at home, reauthorizes critical health programs such as the Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Maternal,…
CCUSA comments on DHS proposed rule inhibiting declaration of disaster
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2021/03/18/ccusa-disaster-pa-comments-march-2021/
News - March 18, 2021 - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposed a rule that would inhibit a state governor’s ability to declare a disaster by adjusting the procedures for doing so. If implemented, this would hinder states and NGOs such as Catholic Charities to receive Public Assistance (PA) funds for clean up efforts. Our comments focus on how this…
CCUSA urges sufficient funds in FY20 agriculture appropriations bill
News - April 30, 2019 - Catholic Charities USA joins the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Relief Services, and Catholic Rural Life in urging for sufficient funds in the FY2020 Agriculture appropriations for hunger programs including Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). Read the full letters.
CCUSA signs joint letter supporting H.R. 6552
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2022/07/25/joint-letter-supporting-h-r-6552/
News - July 25, 2022 - Dear Representative: We write on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Department of Migration and Refugee Services (USCCB/MRS), Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Relief Services, and Catholic Health Association to express our support for H.R. 6552, the “Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022.” This bipartisan legislation is critical for…
CCUSA urges Senate to reauthorize Older Americans Act
News - April 5, 2016 - For fifty years the Older Americans Act (OAA) has provided critical services for vulnerable senior citizens. The Act expired four years ago, but in the meantime the needs of seniors and their population have only increased. According to US Census Bureau data from 2014, over 4 million seniors live below the poverty line and 11…