Guest post: WBAL-TV’s Megan Pringle
We are grateful to WBAL-TV reporter Megan Pringle for her touching reflection and for her commitment to concern for our neighbors experiencing homelessness, poverty and food insecurity. Megan Pringle I have been working as a reporter in Baltimore for 13 years. You experience a kaleidoscope of emotions with this job. One day you [...]
The inspiration of “Uncle Bernie” Our Daily Bread’s 97-year-old volunteer
“Uncle Bernie” Farace with his niece Marion Romans Originally published April 2019 Bernie Farace has been volunteering at Our Daily Bread Employment Center for over 20 years. While that’s impressive for anyone, it’s especially impressive for Bernie who, at 97 years old, is the center’s oldest volunteer. “Uncle Bernie,” as everyone tends to [...]
Calling for care: mental and behavioral health during the COVID crisis
Mental health and substance use issues don’t take a break in a pandemic – so neither do the therapists at Catholic Charities’ clinics. Through an agile, largely online response, staff at the 10 Villa Maria Community Resource Clinics have connected with about 80 percent of their clients. At the Fallsway clinic inside Our Daily Bread [...]
The art of stress relief in the age of pandemic
At any age, there is just something reassuring about a new box of crayons, a quiet moment, and an open invitation to color. That’s the idea behind the studio that art therapist Sheba Sheikhai is hosting twice a week for her colleagues at My Sister’s Place Women’s Center, helping them manage the stress and intensity [...]
Linea Directa Coronavirus, Somos Baltimore Latino
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‘We Can Do A Lot To Impact Our Community’: Maryland Caterer Keeps Staff Employed By Feeding Those In Need Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
By Stetson Miller, WJZ Baltimore BELTSVILLE, Md. (WJZ) — A local caterer is now putting its expertise in cooking to feed thousands during the coronavirus pandemic. Since much of the restaurant industry is out of work right now, some of Maryland’s best chefs are coming to Catering by Uptown to feed those in need. Read more>>
COVID Emergency Prompts Hogan To Change Teletherapy Restrictions For Medicaid
By MARY ROSE MADDEN • APR 9, 2020, WYPR 88.1 FM On a typical day in the Baltimore City school where she’s a therapist, Maggie Schultz sees up to eight kids ranging in ages from five to 14, all of them with emotional and behavioral issues. But ever since schools have been shut down because of the COVID-19 [...]
Activists: House homeless at Baltimore hotels during pandemic
The Daily Record, By: Adam Bednar Daily Record Business Writer April 6, 2020 Housing advocates are calling on Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young to start moving homeless residents into hotels to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Baltimore City Councilman Ryan Dorsey and Councilman Zeke Cohen were among those requesting that Baltimore house homeless residents in currently empty [...]
Archdiocese of Baltimore takes $1.5M loan to weather COVID-19
By Melody Simmons – Reporter, Baltimore Business Journal The shuttered 145 parishes of the Archdiocese of Baltimore will get support this spring from a $1.5 million loan aimed to help keep the lights on and parishioners in virtual pews. The churches last month were ordered closed by Archbishop William E. Lori amid the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus and [...]
Community Funders Begin Planning for a Post-Pandemic World
Paul Karon, Inside Philanthropy As Americans buckle down for at least another month of social distancing and sheltering in place, more than 200 U.S. community foundations have mobilized more than $350 million for COVID-19 responses so far, according to the Community Foundation Public Awareness Initiative, with confirmed grants of $40 million. Numerous other local funders [...]