Catholic Charities Of Santa Clara County

Programs: Behavioral health services behavioral health services works to improve the wellbeing of our participants through mental health, primary care and case management services. Adult mental health - full service partnership-criminal justice and integration of mentally ill parolee's services - combines outpatient mental health, case management, medication support, crisis intervention and recovery from both mental and chemical dependency disorders for individuals and for other persons on probation or parole, who have been ordered by the court for treatment. Calworks health alliance - is a multicultural outpatient mental health and substance abuse program for calworks participants that helps improve personal and family issues that may keep them from finding economic and emotional self-sufficiency. Children and family services - offers outpatient services for children who are seriously emotionally disturbed and their families. Services include psychiatric evaluations, medical monitoring, therapy, and case management and family support, including supervised and home visits. Children ages 0-5 (first 5) are included in these services. Older adult services - a full service partnership-older adults and comprehensive mental health services for older adults (golden gateway) provide case management and mental health services, including medication support, to older adults who are experiencing chronic emotional problems. Golden gateway also develops support groups and educates family members and community service providers about helping older adults with mental health conditions. Inmate and re-entry supportive services - inmate supportive services (iss) at the county's two adult correctional facilities respond to inmate requests for books, eye glasses, notary services, probation-required legal documents, requests for family contacts, family requests for information or items for the inmates, information from community/other legal services and resource information. Post-release services through a faith-based collaborative, bridges of hope, assists ex-offenders with re-integrating into society with jobs, housing, and counseling. John xxiii integrated behavioral health/primary care clinic - provides a medical home by integrating primary health care, exams, screenings, health education, enrollments and referrals with mental health and social services for a diverse population of vulnerable clients. Community counseling - provides individual, couples, family and child counseling to parishioners and other county residents on a sliding fee scale.

children, youth and family development serviceschildren, youth and family development empowers participants to improve their education, health, and family relationships to strengthen their resiliency and prevent poverty. Coral (communities organizing resources to advance learning) is an after-school program at over twenty san jose public schools. Coral focuses on improving student achievement through balanced literacy and enrichment activities. First 5 santa clara county partners with families to support the healthy development of their children ages 0-5 years. The program includes parenting workshops plus community engagement and education activities. Successful parents' program, offered in vietnamese and spanish, helps parents develop a stronger, healthier relationship with their children. Workshops train parents to communicate effectively with their children and support their children's mental, emotional and physical growth. Wic peer counseling breastfeeding program provide peer counseling and support to pregnant and early breastfeeding mothers using the parent education model to improve breastfeeding rates in the vietnamese and latino communities. Intervention services provides gang intervention services to at-risk youth. This program works with community partners to conduct ongoing prevention/intervention and truancy outreach to identify youth who exhibit high-risk behaviors including gang involvement, conflict/violence, school absence and drop out, substance abuse, and other negative behaviors. Kinship resource center provides comprehensive services and support to grandparents and other relatives who are raising the family's children. Services include case management, health assessments, support groups, respite care, recreation, information and referral, education seminars and assistance with legal guardianship packets, as well as an independent living program for youth moving out of kinship care. New beginnings provides opportunities for parents of children ages 0-3 to enjoy interactive early learning activities with their newborns/infants. Probation support services provides intensive case management to youth on probation to prevent re-engagement with the criminal justice system. Washington united youth center (wuyc) offers structured after school programming and a caring environment to youth and their families through recreation, group educational activities and cultural enrichment programs. Also available are information and referral services for families in crisis and living in poverty. The franklin-mckinley children's initiative is a place-based anti-poverty strategy focused on helping every child in the santee neighborhood succeed from cradle to career through creating a strong and safe neighborhood, strengthening educational opportunities, and strengthening families through a community-based coalition.

unaccompanied refugee minors (urm)program the unaccompanied refugee minors (urm) program provides culturally and linguistically appropriate child welfare, foster care, and independent living services to youth who do not have parents in the united states, or who enter the u. S. Unaccompanied by a parent, an immediate adult relative, or an adult having documentable legal evidence of custody of the minor. Refugee children who enter the u. S. With family, but later experience a family breakdown may be eligible to the urm program.

economic development serviceseconomic development services enables participants to move out of poverty and toward self-reliance. Employment services provides comprehensive pre-employment (including english as a second language, computer classes and retail vocational training); employment, job retention, and job upgrade services to immigrants, refugees, and low income individuals. Focus for work provides individual and group employment preparation services, job development services, and post-employment support for adults diagnosed with mental illness. Right directions provides individual and group employment preparation services, job development services, and post-employment support for adults re-entering from jail or prison. Financial education services enables clients to acquire basic financial literacy and move toward establishing economic stability through effective money management and budgeting. It includes individual development savings accounts (ida) and free financial education programs for low-income individuals and families. Tax-ez - free tax preparation provides free and low cost tax preparation services to low-income individuals and families and businesses at various sites throughout santa clara county. Immigration legal services are fully accredited by the federal board of immigration appeals to provide professional legal consultations and a full range of immigration legal services for low-income people throughout santa clara county. Services include family visas, fiance-visa, adjustment of status, employment authorization, re-entry permit and advance parole, political asylum, special immigrant juvenile, religious visa, family unity, temporary protected status (tps), violence against women's act (vawa), nicaraguan adjustment and central american relief act (nacara), inadmissibility waivers, removal defense, representation, freedom of information act requests, citizenship information and applications, photos and fingerprinting, daca services and education, and legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children. South county citizenship services offers sliding scale citizenship services in gilroy, morgan hill and san martin, california. Citizenship services include application assistance, interview preparation, legal assistance or referral to legal assistance. Free south county citizenship days are held twice a year. Refugee foster care trains and supports persons who want to become foster parents. The program matches unaccompanied refugee minors from overseas with foster families in santa clara county. Refugee resettlement offers sponsorship from refugee camps worldwide, family reunification, case management, cultural orientation, employment preparation, job placement, english as a second language (esl), and computer training. Older adult servicesolder adult services assists seniors to maintain health and wellness through multiple programs. Day break respite and caregiver support services program serves caregivers and their dependent elders. Services include a licensed adult day support program (recreation, health promotion and social activities), in-home respite, caregiver support groups, caregiver education and escorted transportation. Day break home care is a social enterprise that trains and hires former clients as trusted caregivers to care for homebound elders and people with disabilities. Long-term care ombudsman program advocates for frail, chronically ill residents in all nursing homes and residential care/assisted living facilities in santa clara county. This program responds to, investigates, and seeks fair resolution of complaints, including allegations of elder abuse and violations of residents' rights. Senior nutrition program offers socialization and hot nutritious meals for seniors (age 60 and over) five days a week at catholic charities eastside neighborhood center and john xxiii multi-service center in san jose. Senior programs at neighborhood centers offers educational classes, recreation and wellness activities for older adults in a culturally responsive environment. Services include english as a second language classes, citizenship information and referral, health screening and monitoring, wellness education, computer training, daily noon meals, weekly grocery bags, exercises such as tai chi, dances, health education, and cultural celebrations at john xxiii and eastside neighborhood center. Parish partnershipsparish partnerships engages parishes to work together with each other and catholic charities to address poverty and the urgent social needs of parishioners and members of the wider community. Through parish partnerships, catholic charities acts as a social ministry catalyst for the parishes and transforms catholic charities services to be more responsive to needs of parishioners. In addition to convening parish and other faith-based social justice groups, parish partnerships also coordinates the recruitment, screening and placement of volunteers from parishes, schools, corporations and the community into agency programs. Parish partnerships also facilitates handicapables. Handicapables is a peer support and spiritual and social enrichment support group connecting people with disabilities with each other, their faith communities and with other volunteers. Step up silicon valley step up silicon valley is catholic charities' anti-poverty network and social innovation laboratory turning ideas into actions that reduce poverty and increase economic opportunity in silicon valley. The initiative uses three main strategies: convening to raise awareness, advocating for policy changes, and incubating disruptive innovations to address the reality of poverty. Disaster recovery servicesdisaster recovery services are the disaster reponse arm of the diocese with responsibility as the lead agency for long-term recovery and disaster case management services for the county of santa clara, including san jose. The program assists survivors of the 2017 san jose coyote creek flood in finding temporary to permanent affordable housing, fulfills unmet needs, provides recovery planning, and helps clients reach self-sufficiency. The program also works to create preparedness for future disasters.