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CCUSA, USCCB submit letter on FY2025 Transportation, HUD appropriations
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…
Awareness campaign promotes life-giving work of Catholic Charities agenciesÂ
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…
Catholic Charities agencies engage with schools and communities
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2021/04/22/catholic-charities-agencies-engage-with-schools-2/
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…
Disaster operations COVID-19 report
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/stories/disaster-operations-covid-19-report/
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…
HHI Year One Report 
Publication - March 5, 2021 - 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…
We Are Well on Our Way: HHI Year Two Report  Â
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…
Prayers & Reflections
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We invite you to explore our prayer resources for liturgical seasons, such as Advent, Lent and Easter, as well as reflections for the every day.
Apostolic Nuncio to U.S. Addresses CCUSA Annual Gathering
Story - September 17, 2018 - Good afternoon! I am happy to be with you as you address the theme of migration in the context of the beautiful story of the the disciples on the road to Emmaus. As the Apostolic Nuncio, the representative of the Holy Father to the United States, I want to express the spiritual closeness and paternal…
Protecting the dignity of human life in the face of COVID-19
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…
Pandemic poses real threat to Florida’s homeless
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/stories/pandemic-poses-real-threat-to-floridas-homeless/
Story - March 24, 2020 - The COVID-19 global pandemic causing havoc across the U.S. poses a stark threat to homeless populations while an economic downturn may create a new wave of homelessness. Those are some of the worries that several Catholic Charities staff in the Archdiocese of Miami expressed recently, as they sharpen their response plans to the spread of…
Catholic Charities reopens Brooklyn childhood center destroyed by Sandy
Story - January 15, 2020 - Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens celebrated a dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Charles F. Murphy Early Childhood Development Center in Coney Island on November 8, 2019, to mark the opening of the state-of-the-art facility. The new building replaces the former Madeleine Jones Head Start Center, operated by Catholic Charities since 1979, which was destroyed…
Lisa Perkins named 2024 Management Excellence Award winner
News - August 15, 2024 - Alexandria, Va. – Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) has named Lisa Perkins, chief executive officer of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Raleigh, the recipient of the 2024 Management Excellence Award. Each year, the CCUSA Management and Administration Community of Practice confers this honor on an exceptional manager or supervisor in the Catholic Charities network who…