Publication - April 13, 2022 - The CCUSA Healthy Housing Initiative (HHI) pilot program combines healthcare and housing services in five cities to help the chronically homeless get off and remain off the streets.  Summary The five-year Healthy Housing Initiative has been piloted in five cities – Detroit, Las Vegas, Portland (Oregon), St. Louis and Spokane – where Catholic Charities staff…

News - June 10, 2024 - ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), the national membership organization for Catholic Charities agencies, has launched We Are There, an awareness campaign promoting the life-giving work undertaken each day by Catholic Charities agencies around the country. Through national and local advertising efforts, the campaign will shine a spotlight on the vast and varied services…

Story - August 11, 2020 - By Kim Burgo, Vice President of Disaster Operations, CCUSA If responding to natural disasters wasn’t complicated enough, COVID-19 places new challenges in the disaster response work Catholic Charities accomplishes. As agencies try to navigate an already complicated disaster process, it becomes even more challenging when the process includes new terms like “social distancing,” new equipment such as…

Publication - June 6, 2023

News - April 22, 2021 - Alexandria, Va. (April 22, 2021) – The latest issue of Charities USA focuses on how Catholic Charities agencies engage with Catholic schools. You will learn ways Catholic Charities agencies interact with students: by providing mental health/counseling services and offering service projects that help the community. For example: The School Mental Health Program at Catholic Charities…

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…

News - June 28, 2024 - Following the Supreme Court’s June 28 ruling allowing cities to ban sleeping outside in public spaces, Catholic Charities USA president and CEO Kerry Alys Robinson issued this statement: “The Catholic Church teaches that access to safe housing is a basic human right. Our country desperately needs to address a severe lack of affordable housing and…

Publication - July 24, 2024

News - October 14, 2021 - Budget Reconciliation should prioritize Affordable Housing and Child Tax Credit for those who need it most Alexandria, Va. – October 14, 2021 – In a letter to Congressional leadership, Sister Donna Markham, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), one the nation’s largest social services providers, urged Congress to prioritize investments that help individuals…

News - June 13, 2024 - Catholic Charities USA and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops sent a letter to Senate and House leaders this week about the Fiscal Year 2025 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. The organizations urged Congress to to provide the highest level of funding possible for housing and community development programs…

Story - August 11, 2020 - By Tom Blonski, President and CEO of Catholic Charities New Hampshire Spending a Tuesday night painstakingly negotiating with vendors to secure several thousand pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) for our skilled nursing facilities after the last order was waylaid somewhere in the Far East… Witnessing the tsunami of emotions facing our residents, staff and family…

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