Showing 241 - 252 of 1157 results
Social workers confront stress while striving to meet client needs
Story - February 18, 2021 - Rose Bak has seen the stress on the faces of the social workers and case managers of the staff at Catholic Charities of Oregon. Under the yearlong pandemic, they look weary. Workers have described feeling depressed, anxious and isolated after hearing hundreds of tough challenges their clients are facing. “People are tired and they’re stressed…
Newcomer Network helps immigrants through a continuum of care
Story - February 10, 2021 - Sister Sharlet Ann Wagner has heard people say about people crossing the border: They should get in line. “My response to that,” Wagner says, “is always, they would love to get in line. Give them a line to get in; they’ll be happy to get in that line.” Wagner speaks from experience. In the late…
As food insecurity rises, pantries work overtime to meet growing need
Story - December 3, 2020 - Laid off from her information technology job last Thanksgiving, then evicted for falling behind on the rent two months later and having to keep six children fed, Bianca Simone needed options. Even though her boyfriend, Drew Tunnell, still had his job in plumbing sales, the couple faced years-long waiting lists for an apartment. Then the…
Catholic Charities of Buffalo provides workforce training
Story - November 13, 2020 - Catholic Charities of Buffalo, in conjunction with the Buffalo & Erie County Workforce Investment Board and C-Tech Associates, hosted the first graduation ceremony in Western New York for the C-Tech training program. Students received industry-recognized certificates in network cabling, copper and fiber optics, 5G systems, and grounding and bonding through the intensive 4-week training. Eight…
Multiple counties in Dubuque Archdiocese affected by powerful derecho
Story - August 21, 2020 - Sirens that usually warn people about approaching tornadoes went off about 15 minutes before the derecho storm struck the area of Cedar Rapids where St. Pius the X Church is located. Michael Becker, pastoral associate at the parish, realized eventually that what he was witnessing Aug. 10 was no tornado. He was at work when…
Texas dioceses still assessing damage from Hurricane Hanna
Story - July 31, 2020 - Some dioceses in the state of Texas had services affected and some are still trying to determine damage from the July 25 landfall of Hurricane Hanna. The hurricane hit southern Texas — a region already battered by the coronavirus — particularly hard, causing widespread damage, though no casualties were reported, at least in the U.S.…
Demand up ‘tenfold’ for help in one New Jersey diocese
Story - July 17, 2020 - The director of food pantries for Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Paterson said the number of people coming for food “is just staggering.” “Throughout the last three months, we have helped more people than any time before in our 80-year history,” Carlos Roldan said in a statement July 13. Catholic Charities, based in Clifton,…
Catholic leaders decry prisoners’ exposure to COVID-19 during pandemic
Story - May 23, 2020 - A May 19 statement by 14 Catholic leaders, including five bishops, decried the danger people in prison are exposed to during the coronavirus pandemic. “Reports of lack of testing suggest measurements of the impact of the virus are incomplete. We are deeply concerned that experiencing COVID-19 from behind bars could, for some, mean a de…
Monitor your mental health
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/stories/monitor-your-mental-health/
Story - May 13, 2020 - Social distancing may be a good way to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but it also can wreak havoc on one’s mental health. Other life changes brought about by the coronavirus pandemic also can contribute to bouts of stress and anxiety, according to mental health professionals. May is National Mental Health Awareness Month and it’s…
Church wasn’t prepared, either, for pandemic, says nuncio to U.S.
Story - May 7, 2020 - Just like billions of people throughout the world, “the church was not prepared” for the coronavirus pandemic, said Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the Vatican nuncio to the United States, in a May 6 interview with Catholic News Service. “We are also people in an organization” beyond just a religion with adherents, Archbishop Pierre said in the…
CCUSA provides masks, protective equipment to Catholic Charities agencies
Story - May 6, 2020 - Kim Burgo, vice president for disaster services at Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), wasn’t surprised to hear where she could get much-needed personal protective equipment (PPE) for Catholic Charities staff responding to the COVID-19 pandemic around the country. But the story behind the source was a nice surprise. In mid-April 2020 Burgo and other leaders of…
Good food can be healthy, tasty and affordable
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/stories/food-can-be-healthy-tasty-and-affordable/
Story - August 5, 2019 - Early in June 2019, Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) convened staff from nine Catholic Charities agencies at the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Simple Cooking with Heart Kitchen in Baltimore, Maryland, to introduce the staff to Healthy for Life® 20 By 20, made possible by Aramark and AHA. The introduction was meant to help Catholic Charities staff…