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Causes: Ethnic & Immigrant Centers, Family Counseling, Homeless & Housing, Homeless Centers, Human Services, Immigration
Mission: Provide services that impact family, neighborhood, and society so that people's lives are filled with hope. Catholic charities respects the dignity of all people and, in partnership with individuals, families and communities, advocates for their needs and supports their right to self determination.
Programs: Family & community services:program: housing assistance goal: to prevent eviction, foreclosure, and homelessness. Description: payments to landlords, mortgage companies, motels, othernumber served: 482 households program: utility assistance goal: to prevent interruption of utility services and assist clients in obtaining necessary utility services. Description: payments/vouchers to utility companies (gas, electricity and water)number served: 1,718 households program: food assistancegoal: to provide nutritional supplemental food to families. Description: food vouchers, gift cards, food distribution programs, food pantries, home delivery meals, holiday baskets, homeless outreach food, and calfresh applications. Number served: 7,879 households program: other crisis intervention servicesgoal: to provide necessary social services for low-income families. Description: family assessment of strengths and needs and linkages to appropriate community services, case management, advocacy, document replacement, transportation, burial assistance, household and personal hygiene items, disaster related services, and other miscellaneous assistance. Number served: 7,002 householdsprogram: family strengthening activitiesgoal: to provide various opportunities to further increase the safety, stability, and health of low-income families. Description: nutrition classes and family holiday assistance. Number served: 4,038 households
counseling services program: in-office counseling servicesgoal: to increase the psychosocial functioning of individuals and families with emotional problems or family dysfunction. Description: individual, couple, youth, and family counseling services provided by master's degree level staff. Number served: 453 households program: on-site school counseling services goal: to increase the academic and behavioral performance of pre-school through high school students on-site in public & private school settings. Description: to provide needed support, therapeutic interventions, and information to referred or voluntary students on campus. Number served: 1,185 households program: parent education & other adult servicesgoal: to increase knowledge and practice of effective parenting, intervening with youth at school, adult anger management strategies, and training of para-professionals. Description: parent education programs, anger management programs, consultations with parents, teachers, and school site staff, and "call to care" trainings. Number served: 1,246 households
refugee & immigration servicesprogram: resettlement servicesgoal: to facilitate the successful transition of families from other countries to life within the united states and specifically in a new community. Description: pre-arrival processing and post-arrival case management services for newly arrived refugees and their sponsors within riverside & san bernardino counties. Number served: 9 households program: immigration servicesgoal: to provide accurate eligibility screening information and submit accurate and acceptable documents required by the uscis so applicants may obtain legal adjustments in their immigrant status as eligible. Description: provide immigration workshops, individual consultations and assist eligible immigrants with a range of applications and required documents required by the uscis in order to adjust one's legal status. Number served: 3,451 households program: citizenship servicesgoal: to submit accurate and acceptable documents required by the uscis so applicants may obtain us citizenship and provide classes for those preparing for their citizenship interview with the uscis. Description: naturalization applications, certificate applications, and citizenship classes. Number served: 484 households
investment in higher education "providing help, creating hope" community college scholarships; bachelor's and master's degree university field placements; non-profit social work fellowship program; student initiated research projects