Bill’s Blog – A More Loving and Just Society
As I watched the horrific events unfold in Charlottesville over the weekend, I found myself overwhelmed with both anger and heartbreak. Perhaps most painful was the uncomfortable realization that Charlottesville is far from unique in its susceptibility to this kind of violence: hate-fueled outbursts can and have occurred throughout history in communities across our country. [...]
Bill’s Blog: It Takes a Community
“The United States derives its strength from the diversity of the people who live here…but we’re not a melting pot. A melting pot is a place where you put a lot of different ingredients and eventually they blend in together and become all the same. I look on our country as more of a beautiful [...]
Finding the Right Path
Through the help of My Sister's Place Lodge Ashleigh has found her way back on the right path. At the age of 15, I was blessed enough to move to Glen Burnie, MD to join my father, step-mother, and younger sister. Despite any and all of my family’s efforts to support me in my mental [...]
Lodge resident lands new jobs with help from job readiness training
My Sister’s Place Lodge resident Carol Spark was staying at a shelter when she learned about the My Sister’s Place Lodge and she knew right away it was the right program for her. Prior to coming to the Lodge, Carol had been faced with many challenges. She suffered a heart attack, followed by a lengthy [...]
Lodge Client Reaches Her Goals
Tonya had a good job as a legal assistant in Washington, DC until the onset of bipolar disorder in 2011 led her into a series of hospitalizations. As she struggled to find the right medications to get her condition under control, she lost her job and became homeless. She came to Baltimore seeking shelter with [...]
Client Becomes Volunteer and Moves into Permanent Home
Caren seems poised and confident, but occasionally you can see flashes of pain in her eyes. Her path has not been an easy one to walk. Last year, a successful professional woman, she moved here from Mississippi for a new job. Prior to moving, she had been in the process of changing jobs in Mississippi [...]
Ronald Discovers Recipe for Success at ODBEC
Down on his luck and barely getting by doing an assortment of side jobs for nearly two years, Ronald decided it was time to make a change in his life. When a friend recommended that the services available at the Our Daily Bread Employment Center would be able to help him find more stable employment, [...]
Abell Foundation Funds Technology Upgrade
Our Daily Bread Employment Center and My Sister’s Place Women’s Center recently received a generous $500,000 grant from the Abell Foundation. A portion of the funds were used to upgrade ODBEC’s public computer lab, offering clients newer and faster technology to assist in their employment search. Clients will be able to perform job searches, complete [...]
Single Father Rebuilds the Life of His Family Through the Help of Catholic Charities’ Sarah’s House
“I have two blessings in this world: my boy and Sarah’s House” says Sherman, a Sarah’s House Resident currently residing in a transitional housing unit. “Without Sarah’s House I don’t know where we would have gone, this is all the family I have” he adds as he puts his arm around his son. Sherman and [...]
Mary Moves from Underemployment to Financial Stability
Mary is a Sarah’s House client whom we are continuing to help on her life’s journey to self-sufficiency and financial stability. Mary had a job as a driver in Anne Arundel County. Like many of our working clients, she was not earning enough to support herself and needed our Emergency Shelter program. She completed the [...]