Story - September 17, 2018 - Since 2017, Gilda Rada-Garcia has worked as an immigration advocate with Catholic Charities of North Louisiana’s Immigration Integration Services program. She provides assistance and guidance to clients seeking to become legal residents or naturalized citizens of the United States. On September 12, 2018, surrounded by friends and CCNLA staff members, Rada-Garcia joined two of her…

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 - December 9, 2020 - Charles Mugabe is the COVID-19 Project Coordinator for Catholic Charities Refugee and Immigration Services in Maine. As the liaison between Ethnic Community-Based Organizations statewide, Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services, and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Mugabe works with a coalition of organizations to help provide COVID-19 social service support for…

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…

Publication - August 4, 2022 - Parishes can: demonstrate sensitivity to the impact of painful experiences on its members and their loved ones;  help parishioners recognize their experience of, and responses to, pain; and provide restorative spiritual and professional resources in a variety of ways.     Summary Catholic Charities USA’s Whole Hearted is a parish-based resource focused on the impact life’s painful experiences have…

Publication - August 4, 2022 - Whole Hearted is meant to provide basic and helpful mental health awareness. It is not a substitute for clinical or professional therapy. It informs participants of trauma’s impact and how one might begin to move forward mentally and spiritually.

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Story - August 16, 2021 - A Catholic Charities official in southern Texas who oversees outreach to hundreds of migrant families entering the United States daily has asked a federal court to allow the agency to continue its mission of serving vulnerable people. Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in the Brownsville Diocese, said…

Story - August 2, 2021 - The Biden administration filed a lawsuit July 30 against the state of Texas, trying to stop enforcement of an order aimed at migrants that it calls “dangerous and unlawful.” The order seeks to prevent anyone, except state or federal authorities, from transporting migrants who may have crossed the border illegally. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued…

Story - June 3, 2021 - After hearing the story of a Salvadoran immigrant and her plight to leave her home country, bishops from the U.S., Central America and Mexico meeting in Mundelein June 2 turned to a camera facing a woman identified as Maria Antonia. Even though she was who thousands of miles away, in Irving, Texas, they gave her…

Story - March 9, 2021 - The coronavirus pandemic has taken an emotional toll on Americans, with mental health professionals reporting they are getting more requests for assistance from people feeling helpless and experiencing anxiety and depression. Inquiries are coming from people of all ages — young children, teenagers, the middle-aged and the elderly — as they struggle to cope with…

Story - March 3, 2021 - Democratic members of the U.S. Senate were hopeful their version of a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package would be passed the second week of March, so they could send it to President Joe Biden for his signature before unemployment assistance expires March 14. The measure includes $246 billion for extending unemployment benefits through August and…