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…

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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

Updated June 4, 2021 The E-Learning Video Resource Library is available as a one-stop shop for tools and training to build your disaster capacity. The library contains training videos and recordings of webinars on topics such as Disaster Basics, Establishing a Point of Distribution, Disaster Case Management and Concept of Operations. A Crash Course in…

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…

Story - November 11, 2019 - Chris first tried drugs when he was 15. Marijuana gave way to harder drugs, and occasional dabbling grew into daily use. There were a few wake-up calls — like when he sold his car for money to buy cocaine or when he had to defend himself in a knife fight on his way to buy…