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Catholic Charities COPE Line offers hope through pandemic
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…
On DACA’s 10th anniversary, CCUSA urges passage of American Dream and Promise Act
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…
Filling a gap for people who need mental health care
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Story - April 12, 2018 - When Kim’s world came crashing down around her, she remembered something her mother always told her, “When you’re in need, go to church.” Four years before, Kim’s brother died suddenly in a car crash, leaving her the sole caretaker of her mother, as her father had died of Parkinson’s years before. Soon after, her mother…
Medication-assisted treatment helps mom fight addiction, put family first
Story - November 10, 2020 - Depression drove Britney into addiction. “I was so depressed I just wanted to numb all my feelings. At one point, I didn’t even want to live any more,” she said. “I started with pills. Then heroin. I was using for seven and a half months – four or five bags of heroin a day.” An…
Kentucky director shares message of hope after community response to tornadoes
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…
A young mother builds a better future for her children
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Story - July 2, 2019 - Looking back, Jordan can see she had a tough childhood. Raised by a single mother who had mental health challenges, Jordan dropped out of school in the ninth grade and had her first baby at 17. Still, she never dreamed she’d be homeless. She had been making money doing hair since she was in middle…
Disaster Training Toolkit
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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…
Promoting healing, change: Applying lessons learned from Ferguson
Story - October 12, 2020 - By Theresa Ruzicka, President, Catholic Charities of St. Louis In our daily work at Catholic Charities, we accompany people who are in need, many who are particularly vulnerable. In our diocese and many others, this includes a disproportionate number of our Black brothers and sisters, who have been individually and systemically marginalized. The killing of George…
Helping families get the nutrition they need
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Story - January 3, 2019 - It is hard to believe that people who live in areas rich with food go to bed hungry every night. Yet in San Joaquin County, California – which has been referred to as the breadbasket of the nation – “mixed status” families are not getting the nutrition they need. “Mixed status” families have at least…
Catholic Charities Rio Grande ready to help asylum-seekers in the U.S.
Story - February 24, 2021 - Just as the coldest weather in more than 30 years brought new misery to asylum-seekers stranded in a refugee camp in Mexico, an end to their plight may be in sight. A small group of 25 was the first to leave the camp in Matamoros, Mexico, and enter the United States Feb. 22 in Brownsville,…
Catholic Charities agencies grateful for Albertson’s Nourishing Neighbors grant
Story - August 7, 2020 - In the face of unprecedented need and upended distribution models, our agencies are doing more, with less. Our network of agencies across the country are innovating to serve their neighbors, complying with social distancing requirements and meeting rapidly evolving needs. Catholic Charities agencies are grateful for the support from the Albertson’s Nourishing Neighbors grant that…
Successful Catholic app adds features to help people cope in pandemic
Story - April 21, 2020 - In 2018, Alessandro DiSanto quit a promising job in finance to join friends in starting an app for Catholics centered around meditation and prayer. That app, Hallow, is now the top Catholic app in app stores, has 150,000 downloads in 50 countries and has been used to pray over 1 million times, according to DiSanto.…