Jenkins Senior Living – a caring community supported by vibrant volunteers
Warm spring days mean outdoor dining at the Jenkins Senior Living campus where the Pastoral Care staff hosted a homemade picnic lunch of salmon, salad, and dessert for its cadre of volunteers who serve the older adult residents on the campus. "It was like a family picnic because we consider our volunteers to be family," [...]
Rebecca Lorick, from My Sister’s Place Women’s Center, presents expert insight at Urban Child Symposium
Rebecca Lorick, program director of My Sister’s Place Women’s Center, spoke at the 9th Annual Urban Child Symposium on ways our communities can help families and children affected by substance use disorders and dependence. Click to view the full-length audio and video recording of the Urban Child symposium. Rebecca Lorick's presentation was in the morning [...]
A day in the life at My Sister’s Place Women’s Center
The daily routine for a person experiencing homelessness can be consumed by ensuring that their basic needs of food, water, warmth and rest then security and safety are being met. At My Sister's Place Women's Center, we recognize that stress but work to lighten that load by offering many wrap-around services to move them beyond these [...]
Reclaiming self-determination, stability, and economic dignity
Hadi Sadeghiasl receives his certificate from case manager and Christopher Place graduate Jerry Pryor. Graduates of the 79th Capstone Class of Christopher Place Employment Academy, including (l-r): Tarrey Saunders, Hadi Sadeghiasl, Vernon Smith, Corey Williams, Qymaine Harden, Dartanian Byrd, and Charles Cole, present a mosaic they created as part of their hands-on learning [...]
Greetings from Lee Martin, Program Director of Our Daily Bread Employment Center
(April 2019) I’M TRULY HONORED to be the new program director of Our Daily Bread Employment Center. As a Calvert Hall alumnus and the former director of the Weinberg Housing and Resource Center, I am humbled to be part of an amazing, passionate, dedicated, mission-driven staff that help to make Our Daily Bread more than [...]
Job programs help people with advanced degrees, too
Cheryl Paschall (l) with Our Daily Bread Job Readiness Trainer Darlene Dunn Looking for work? You’ll want Darlene Dunn, job readiness trainer at Our Daily Bread’s Work 4 Success, on your side. Dunn relishes the chance to help job candidates find steady work and hone their skills. Each person’s work experience and education [...]
Head Start parents participate in 90-hour course to become certified as childcare providers
After watching their children thrive and have fun in the Catholic Charities' Head Start of Baltimore City preschool classes, seven women knew that they too wanted to be in the classroom - not as volunteers, but as teachers. "These parents wanted to know more about early childhood education, and they repeatedly ask for our help [...]
Remembering Dominic Corriere – volunteer who introduced vegetarian lunches at Our Daily Bread Employment Center
Dominic and Concetta Corriere (right) along with Donald Welchand his wife Brenda Ashworth. “ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS about Dominic Corriere (February 4, 1938 – March 10, 2019) was his devotion to Our Daily Bread,” said Dom’s lifelong friend and fellow Friday volunteer, Don Welch. “Dom came to Our Daily Bread every [...]
Happiness in a handbag – hairstylists donate purses to participants of My Sister’s Place Women’s Center
"Knowing that you are loved and supported makes a world of difference and often family help is not the answer. In fact, they might be the problem,” said Kim Ridley who along with her friend Travella Bantum collected more than 80 new and nearly new handbags to give to women at My Sister's Place Women's [...]