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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…
Learning, inspiration at the 2024 Annual Gathering
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News - September 24, 2024 - ALEXANDRIA, Va. — From September 16 through September 19, nearly 600 Catholic Charities staff, volunteers and supporters from around the country gathered in Oklahoma City for the 2024 Annual Gathering. Each year, Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), the national membership organization representing 168 Catholic Charities agencies, convenes its network in a different city for several days…
Families struggling with poverty learn healthy eating tips
Story - March 25, 2019 - Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa (CCSR) uses the Two-Generation (2Gen) model of service to help impoverished families attain a healthy, self-sustaining lifestyle. 2Gen programs consider the holistic needs of families and the individual needs of family members, both children and adults. The 2Gen service model provides high quality and mutually reinforcing services…
Learning to recognize and support victims of trafficking
Story - September 15, 2015 - Trafficking victims — exploited men, women and children — are all around us, but we usually don’t see them. We may not be aware of trafficking or we don’t know what to look for. It’s a blind spot that the state of Kentucky and Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Louisville are shining a light…
Food security and COVID-19: Lessons learned
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Story - January 14, 2021
Catholic Charities Omaha: Erasing poverty through entrepreneurship
Story - December 1, 2021 - By Ryan Eades Innovative member agency program seeks to break the cycle of poverty As a cleaning professional for six years, Sylvia Sanchez Enciso had gotten used to working into the evenings, missing her children’s soccer practices and working on weekends. “I would work until 6:30 p.m. Monday to Friday,” Sylvia says. “Often, I would work weekends too, at least Saturday.” Her…
Returning to school, safely and virtually
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Story - August 21, 2020 - Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of San Antonio is offering a distance learning option to children in the second most impoverished zip code in its community. Catholic Charities’ Guadalupe Community Center (GCC) offers children an After School Program that is free and attended mostly by students from the San Antonio Independent School District. As with many Catholic…
‘I want better for my children’
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Story - August 6, 2024 - Young parents graduate Catholic Charities Boston HiSET Program together. For Gislani, a young mother of two boys both under the age of two, the past few years have been anything but predictable. A few weeks after first becoming a mother at the age of 19, Gislani learned that the home where she had been living…
‘What is the most creative response to this situation?’
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Story - August 1, 2024 - Clinician and artist Jeri Rabchenuk shares what she’s learned over her 55-year tenure at Catholic Charities Boston. The beauty of painting for Catholic Charities Boston clinician and artist Jeri Rabchenuk is that when she lifts her paintbrush, she has the freedom to decide what her next stroke will be. Her greatest hope for her clients…
What brain science has to do with poverty
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Story - January 16, 2020 - By Kimbery Nix Lawrence Asking for help is hard. It’s humbling and often humiliating. For those most in need in our society, the traditional model of providing financial assistance or case management is often transactional, cold and ineffective. Rather than motivating people to keep going, the traditional process often makes people feel helpless and hopeless.…
Reflections on the Joy of the Gospel
Prayer & Reflection - December 13, 2016 - Introduction Pope Francis might have written The Joy of the Gospel specifically for the Catholic Charities network. No other papal exhortation in recent memory speaks so clearly and directly to those of us who work to reduce poverty in all its many forms. The Joy of the Gospel affirms that we see the face of…
Culinary training program feeds souls and stomachs
Story - November 10, 2021 - Clad in crisp black aprons, they massage pepper, garlic and thyme into the cubed beef. “Become one with the food,” chef Jon Wirtis tells them. The students then drizzle oil into large pots, wait for the fat to sputter and pop, and add the seasoned meat. “Beauuutiful,” says Wirtis as the contents sizzle and a…