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Intensive case management keeps clients on track
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Story - January 4, 2024 - A recent grant in the amount of $100,000 from Dignity Health, CCSN’s Catholic health partner, renews their support for the residential services case management program at St. Vincent Apartments. The program provides help, hope and housing to some of the most vulnerable members of our community and expands the services that CCSN is able to…
Partnership will build homes, change lives
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Story - September 21, 2022 - A former Catholic school on the city’s east side that has been vacant for more than a decade will get new life as an affordable housing complex, thanks to a unique collaboration between church, state and a host of allies. The Residences at St. Matthews is a $17-million, two-year project to repurpose the former St.…
Catholic Charities agencies rely on virtual outreach for Ida relief
Story - September 3, 2021 - With several Northeast states now joining major metropolitan regions in the Gulf Coast as Hurricane Ida-related disaster areas, Catholic Charities agencies are using virtual deployment systems refined during the coronavirus pandemic to maximize their outreach to those in need. Prolonged power outages or record flooding are making quick disaster response access to the greater New…
Catholic Charities forming comprehensive ministry for St. Francis site
Story - March 19, 2021 - The St. Francis Dining Hall building in Southeast Portland is closed because of coronavirus. But the venerable feeding ministry for people who are homeless continues and now includes additional elements and big dreams. “We wanted to build on what parishioners have done for decades,” said Rick Birkel, executive director of Catholic Charities of Oregon. “The…
Thankful for transportation
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Story - November 11, 2020 - When we gather with our family or friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, we probably don’t think much about how we will get to the gathering. Transportation is something we often take for granted. It’s easy to forget that for many poor and vulnerable people in Ohio, transportation is one of the biggest barriers to success and…
Catholic Charities Fort Worth: Six-month COVID-19 service and lookback
Story - October 28, 2020 - In late March, the phones at Catholic Charities Fort Worth (CCFW) began ringing with the needs of the community following the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Among the top needs to be addressed were the fear of not being able to make rent or utility payments, and the need for job readiness and placement…
Update from J. Antonio Fernandez of Catholic Charities San Antonio
Story - March 23, 2020 - Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of San Antonio’s (CCAOSA) mobile unit, called HOPE, deployed the week of March 16, 2020, to help those experiencing homelessness. Meanwhile FAITH, CCAOSA’s shower truck and washing machine unit, stands ready to be sent where it is needed. CCAOSA’s food pantries helped more people during the week of March 16 than they…
Catholic Charities, federal government serve communities affected by disasters
Story - February 24, 2020 - Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), at the request of Cynthia Colbert, president and CEO of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston (CCAGH), convened a meeting between CCAGH and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiatives and Federal Emergency Management Agency Partners (FEMA) in order to discuss how faith-based organizations and the federal…
Community gardening nourishing more than bodies
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Story - May 20, 2016 - As I reflect on the last few days of work on the farm, our Farm for ME project of Catholic Charities Food Bank program, I am pondering some of the events that occurred. We have been working for weeks with sparse help and mother nature biting our heals with high humidity, hot temperatures and a…
Sheltering the homeless a corporal work of mercy
Story - January 21, 2016 - To shelter the homeless is one of the Corporal Works of Mercy. In a social context when we provide housing that is affordable, we are sheltering. In the 1950s, the church in Louisville grew by leaps and bounds. New parishes were springing up, and with them schools. Those returning from WWII fueled this growth. I…
Welcoming weary migrants with care and compassion
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Story - August 12, 2015 - When thousands of weary migrants, mostly unaccompanied minors, crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in the summer of 2014, the Catholic Charities network responded, providing these weary and desperate travelers with a place to rest, food, medical care, clothes, supplies, and, above all, compassion. After being apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and then released…
CCUSA names 2016 Volunteers of the Year
News - April 15, 2016 - Alexandria, Va. (April 15, 2016) — Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), which represents one of the largest faith-based social service networks in the country, is pleased to announce that Bishop Emeritus William S. Skylstad and Colin Arnold, volunteers at Catholic Charities of Spokane and Catholic Community Service of Juneau, Alaska respectively, are winners of CCUSA’s 2016…