Story - May 1, 2020 - At 8 a.m. on Easter, two days before giving birth, Jennifer Ratigan pulled into a hospital parking lot and waited for a physician’s assistant — donning full protective garb, including a face mask and shield — to reach through a rolled-down window to swab her nose for a COVID-19 test. The hospital was preparing for…

Story - December 4, 2020 - The path to adoption for Mandy and Keegan Wilson looked nothing like they envisioned. “Adoption is something I wanted to do since I was in high school,” Mandy Wilson said. “I have friends who have placed babies for adoption. I’ve had family members and friends adopt babies. I knew it was in my heart to…

Story - December 28, 2021 - Right up through December, extreme weather events and natural disasters of 2021 continued to upend local communities and set agendas for domestic and overseas emergency response efforts at major Catholic aid organizations. “We had about 85 disasters,” in the United States this past year, said Kim Burgo, vice president for disaster operations for Catholic Charities…

News - July 15, 2016 - Sister Donna Markham OP, PhD, President and CEO of Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), welcomes the passage of the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act (HR 3700/S3083). “This legislation represents an important step forward related to the provision of affordable housing for all persons and families,” she said.  “This law provides more tools to preserve affordable housing,…

Story - October 2, 2017 - The thing about an island-wide disaster is that… It’s island-wide. Or in the current case of the U.S. Virgin Islands, territory-wide. There is not one of the approximately 100,000 permanent residents of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John who was not adversely affected by one or the other – or both – of September’s…

News - April 10, 2023 - Alexandria, Va. – Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) announced that proposals from nine Catholic Charities agencies have been selected as finalists in the organization’s second Innovation Challenge. Representatives from each agency will pitch their projects during CCUSA’s Annual Gathering in Cleveland in October, and three agencies will be chosen to each receive $633,000 in prize money.    …

Story - August 11, 2020 - By Laura Wolfe, Development Director, Catholic Charities Diocese of Springfield Diocese of Springfield in Illinois creates program to offer mental health solutions in midst of coronavirus For the past seven years Eleanor has suffered from dementia and her daughter Jenny has faithfully visited her in the nursing home where she lives. When the nursing home closed…

Story - October 29, 2019 - Catholic Charities Community Services of Phoenix (CCCS) provides education, coaching and support to parents who have been approved for foster care by the state of Arizona. Cheryl and Nick are one couple who have benefited from CCCS’ resources. “We actually looked at several organizations, but chose Catholic Charities,” Nick said. Cheryl added that their choice…

News - June 15, 2022 - Alexandria, Va. – In recognition today of the 10th anniversary of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) — the stopgap federal policy that provides qualifying young adults brought here as children with temporary permission to stay in the country and obtain work authorization — Catholic Charities USA stands with our immigrant brothers and sisters and…

Member - August 17, 2015 - Catholic Charities provides a comprehensive program of services to people of any religious, ethnic, cultural and racial background. At eight Middle Tennessee locations, our multi-lingual staff serves all ages with basic needs, counseling and job training, along with wraparound services. The staff includes 160 expert professionals, along with 300 volunteers and 20 interns. Annually, we…

Story - December 14, 2021 - Deadly tornadoes left a more-than 200-mile path of destruction overnight on December 10, 2021, in the Midwest.   In the past month, Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Owensboro staff have been busy resettling 300 Afghan refugees in our community. We still have more than 150 refugees in an Owensboro hotel because of our housing shortage. Also, some landlords would not rent to the newcomers making…

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…