Catholic Charities Who We Are & What We Do

January, 2015

Mission of Catholic Charities

The mission of Catholic Charities is to provide service to people in need, to

advocate for justice in social structures, and to call the entire church and

other people of good will to do the same.

Service • Advocacy • Convening

164 Member Agencies

Who Works with Us

Paid Staff, 17%

Board Members,

2%

Volunteers, 81%

Total Personnel: 344,612

Service Used Most Often

9,640,567 Hunger client services

Agencies Sites Clients

Soup Kitchens 37 124 765,750

Congregate Dining 71 639 1,223,175

Food banks, Pantries, Cupboards

99 1,471 6,265,895

Other Food Distribution 57 1,677 634,201

Aging

• Adult Day Care • Senior housing continuum • Guardianship • Chore services & home

repair • Home care

Health/Behavioral Health

• Individual, family, group counseling

• Outpatient psychiatric services • Substance abuse services • Medical & dental clinics

Shelters for the Homeless

• Continuum of care: • Homelessness prevention • Street outreach • Emergency shelter • Transitional living

Youth Services & Mentoring

• Recreation & enrichment – after school & summer camp

• Workforce development & GED • Youth mentoring • Juvenile justice • Court appointed special advocates

(CASA)

Affordable Housing • Affordable housing

development for purchase and rental

• Permanent supportive housing

Child Welfare Services

• Early childhood education • Child care and after school care • Foster care • Child protective services

Legal Immigration Services

• Advice & counseling • Citizenship applications • Family Visa Petitions • Legal representation • Removal Proceedings

*Data comes from the Catholic Charities USA 2013 Annual Survey

Catholic Charities USA Immigration Services

Who our network serves . . .

Services Offered

Refugee Resettlement It also would be easier for Finance to cut one check a month for her, as they do with our other consultants.

• ESL & Interpreter services • Employment training & job

placement • Unaccompanied minors • Family reunification

Military Families & Veterans

• Case management & peer navigator services

• Counseling for PTSD & TBI • Emergency financial services

Catholic Charities of California State Office for the 12 local

California Catholic Charities organization

Catholic Charities of California

• The 12 local Catholic Charities agencies provide professional social services to more than 1.1 million Californians each year.

• These services include: benefits

enrollment, housing, education and training, food distribution, food and clothing assistance, utility and rent assistance, job training, nutrition education, immigrant and refugee assistance, and more.

Catholic Charities of California State-Wide Programs

• Cal –Fresh Outreach • SNAP-ED Nutrition Education and

Obesity Prevention • Covered California Navigator

Outreach, Education & Enrollment • Connecting Kids To Coverage Medi-

Cal Outreach & Enrollment • Medi-Cal Outreach & Enrollment

Funded by The California Wellness Foundation

Unaccompanied Undocumented Minor (UUM) Legal Services

• Funding provided through the California Department of Social Services, Bureau of Refugee Services;

• Awarded to a limited number of nonprofit legal services organizations;

• To provide legal services to eligible Unaccompanied Undocumented Minors

UUM Legal Services Participants

• Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project

• Catholic Charities of the East Bay

• Catholic Charities CYO (Archdiocese of San Francisco

• Catholic Charities Diocese of Monterey

Catholic Charities of California State-Wide Immigration Services

Catholic Charities in California Served 51,646 people in immigration services in 2013 at 17 locations (11 agencies) throughout California.

Below reflects the number of sites that offer this particular type of immigration services

• Citizenship applications - 15 • Counseling - 10 • Family visa petitions - 13 • Legal Representation - 9 • Removal Proceedings – 4 (likely to

have lawyers on staff) • Other Services – 11

Immigration Services Under “Other”

• Under “other services” they types of services being provided include:

• Adjustment of status • Temporary protective status • VAWA • U-Visa’s • T-Visas • Consultations • Citizenship classes • I-601 waivers • DACA applications

Catholic Charities of California Contact Information

• Shannon M. Lahey, Executive Director • Emily Battaglia, Programs Director • Josie DeLeon, UUM Legal Services

Contract Coordinator

Catholic Charities of California, Inc. 1119 K Street, 2nd Floor Sacramento, CA 95814

(916) 706-1539