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A plea to save DACA
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Story - September 5, 2017 - DACA has minimized some of the restrictions I had as an undocumented person. Before DACA, I was not able to apply for jobs or pursue the opportunity to earn my driver’s license. Having graduated from San Diego State University with my Bachelor’s in Social Work, I can apply to different jobs that I am passionate…
Sr. Betsy Van Deusen, CSJ, named CEO of Catholic Charities Albany
Story - March 31, 2022 - Catholic Charities Board of Trustees, following an extensive search, has named Sr. Betsy Van Deusen, CSJ, as Catholic Charities’ next Chief Executive Officer. Catholic Charities is one of the region’s largest human services organizations, covering the Albany Diocese’s 14 counties and 10,000 square miles. Sr. Betsy, who for the last nine years has served as…
Catholic Charities Raleigh executive director receives leader in diversity award
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/stories/lisa-perkins-receives-2021-leader-in-diversity-award/
Story - October 7, 2021 - On Thursday, September 9th, the “Triangle Business Journal” hosted an awards luncheon for their class of 2021 Leaders in Diversity at The Umstead Hotel and Spa. Among this year’s winners was Lisa Perkins, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Raleigh. As Perkins was on stage accepting her award, she shared the quote…
Seniors caring for seniors, heart and soul
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Story - June 3, 2021 - For some seniors, the experience of old age means wanting company and never having it. Due simply to their later stage of life, seniors often experience the shrinking of their social circle. In many cases, spouses, family members, and friends have passed away— and sometimes those that are left seem busy with careers and families…
Stay the Course® provides students a map and traveling companion
Story - March 24, 2021 - When a person decides to enroll in community college, he or she embarks on a journey— one that often ends prematurely due to non-academic obstacles that make the goal of graduation an ever-distant dream. The fact is only 39% of students receive some degree or certificate within six years of enrolling in community college. There…
A force of nature, she’s doing God’s work on pandemic’s front lines
Story - January 28, 2021 - She’s a diminutive woman whose work is not the stuff of headlines. You probably don’t know her name. You probably won’t recognize her face. But ask the people who are lining up for groceries at an outdoor food pantry in a windblown parking lot on Columbia Road in Dorchester as a life-altering pandemic rages on,…
Labor Day statement denounces profit over safety, especially in pandemic
Story - September 6, 2020 - Given the “somber” realities imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, for companies to put profits over safety is “unjust,” said Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, in the U.S. bishops’ annual Labor Day statement. Even before the pandemic, “a significant number of Americans…
Every action counts
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Story - July 6, 2020 - Tharmini Umakaran came to the United States in 2018. She left her homeland of Sri Lanka at the age of five, fleeing civil war. Thirteen years later, as the nation celebrates World Refugee Day, June 20, Umakaran is thankful to those who helped her and her parents along the way. This year’s theme, “Every Action…
CCUSA’s 2019 Volunteer of the Year uses gardening skills to help others
Story - September 13, 2019 - You might think that working more than three decades in the Catholic school system should be followed by a calm and relaxing retirement. And it is one way to cap such a generous career. But there’s another way, less traveled perhaps, demonstrated by Jana Hukriede, Catholic Charities USA’s (CCUSA) 2019 Volunteer of the Year. After…
Mentoring means being present for the mentee
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Story - January 8, 2018 - Eddy is a 72 year old mentor to “Scott,” a 17 year old high school senior. Scott is being raised by a single mother who suffers from several chronic illnesses. They live in subsidized housing and have no transportation. Scott was in the chorus at school and had a solo in the last concert of…
Making changes for the good
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Story - January 8, 2018 - “Homelessness can happen to anyone. In order to survive it, you need to be willing to make changes.” After serving in the United States Air Force for 11 years, and more than a dozen in a career with AG Edwards, Rico lost his home after his job was downsized. The St. Louis native with two…
Who speaks for refugees?
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Story - August 12, 2016 - “This work is personal for me. When I go to the airport, it’s hard not to see my family’s journey unfold in front of me. When I see refugees standing there with their light luggage, I know it’s the very beginning, and the sky is the limit. In some ways, I really worry about them,…