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Catholic Charities of TN helps refugee students navigate online learning
Story - September 17, 2020 - Although navigating technology and staying organized and motivated has been a challenge for students across the country with online learning this semester, it is even more difficult for refugee students. In the Diocese of Nashville, Catholic Charities of Tennessee has stepped in to give these students a helping hand. To support refugee children attending Nashville…
AmeriCorps VISTA member describes learning from those she served
Story - March 4, 2021 - By Margot Flynn It’s been an extremely rewarding experience, to say the least, to return to my hometown and work with the Housing Team at Catholic Charities of Oregon. I was raised just a 15-minute walk from the building I’m now based out of as an AmeriCorps VISTA. Though I don’t venture into the office…
Learning to grow together
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Story - January 9, 2018 - Ky and Luis have been matched since March 2014 through T.E.A.M. (Together Engaging Adolescents through Mentoring), a program of Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Boston. Ky is a salesman who lives in South Boston. He chose to become a mentor because he had struggled academically and dropped out of high school, so he wanted to work…
CCUSA submits feedback to Early Learning Interagency Policy Board
News - November 6, 2015 - CCUSA submitted comments today in response to a request from the Early Learning Interagency Policy Board (IPB) for feedback to inform a federal policy statement on health promotion in early learning. To inform a response, CCUSA solicited feedback from member agencies with leading early childhood programs, including Head Start, Early Head Start, day care, and…
Learning from a mistake
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Story - April 10, 2017 - Christopher was a good student who grew up in a single parent household. Despite his mom’s best efforts to raise him right, Christopher had a brief but fateful run in with the law at age 16. His mother, Christine, remembers the phone call – Christopher had been arrested right before Mother’s Day and right after…
Promoting healing, change: Applying lessons learned from Ferguson
Story - October 12, 2020 - By Theresa Ruzicka, President, Catholic Charities of St. Louis In our daily work at Catholic Charities, we accompany people who are in need, many who are particularly vulnerable. In our diocese and many others, this includes a disproportionate number of our Black brothers and sisters, who have been individually and systemically marginalized. The killing of George…
Students learn about, practice Catholic social teaching in Northeast Kansas
Story - April 26, 2021 - By David Werning, Managing Editor St. Paul asks the Romans a rhetorical question: “How can people believe in Jesus if they haven’t heard of him?” (See Rom 10:14). St. Paul’s point: Go out and tell people. Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas (CCNEK) got the point. CCNEK helps those living in the 21 counties of northeast Kansas…
AmeriCorps member appreciates lessons learned during year of service
Story - March 4, 2021 - During my time as a Nutrition Education AmeriCorps Member for the Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri (CCCNMO), I have learned many things. Go with the flow. Being that my entire service year has been in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, I have gotten used to the idea that plans do not always…
Learning empathy for those who struggle with poverty
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Story - November 1, 2019 - More than 60 congressional staff and four members of Congress participated in a poverty simulation to understand the struggles that millions of Americans face every day.* One member of Congress called the experience an “eye opener.” During the event at the Capitol Visitors Center, sponsored by Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) and Entergy Corporation, participants assumed…
When women learn domestic abuse is not their fault, they begin to heal
Story - September 15, 2015 - Abused women live with a great deal of shame and guilt. Isolated from family and friends, beaten, and shamed, they begin to believe what they’re told-that the abuse is their fault. But at Harbor House, a domestic violence shelter and outreach program of Catholic Charities, Diocese of Wichita in Kansas, abused women learn something else.…
Indiana volunteers learn homeless at shelter ‘are not a stereotype’
Story - April 28, 2020 - When Katelyn Stumler’s husband, Craig, needed someone to cover his volunteer shift at a New Albany homeless shelter for two hours on a cold night in February, “begrudgingly, I said I’d do it,” she admitted. But she found serving the service transformative. “It was an incredible experience. … That was the spark that lit the…
With counseling, teen migrant learns to manage trauma and loss
Story - September 3, 2015 - Victoriana was 5 years old when she saw her father gunned down in front of their home in Honduras. The blood-tinged image has haunted her for 10 years. But now she is talking about this traumatic event thanks to new bilingual mental health counseling sessions provided by Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio at Dater High School…