Mike Dunphy Works to See Children Learn to Trust and Hope Again
Integrity. . . honesty. . . commitment. These are the words Mary Rode, administrator for St. Vincent’s Center, uses to describe Mike Dunphy. “Mike cares so deeply for the kids, the staff and the program. He is always looking for ways to improve things and he is dramatically responsible for changing how we work with children [...]
Management Makes a Difference to Everyone
Rosilyn Butler is the bright, cheerful manager of three Catholic Charities Senior Housing complexes, including St. Marks Place, where we spoke with her. After observing her for just a few minutes, you can see why she’s a favorite among her residents. Ms. Butler has been with Catholic Charities for 7 months and has been working in [...]
Honoring Ray Wright
by Bill McCarthy At Catholic Charities’ Annual Dinner last month, we honored Ray Wright with our Distinguished Service Award. Ray, the Director of Residential Services for St. Vincent’s Villa, came to Catholic Charities 31 years ago. He has served in a number of different positions since then, but one thing has remained constant – his [...]
Dr. Robert Canosa Keeps Focus on a True Consumer-Provider Partnership
For the past 19 years Dr. Robert Canosa, has been making a difference at the Villa Maria Continuum. For the past 10 years, as director of Community Resources and Psychology Services, he has managed an array of twenty-five Villa Maria programs. They span eleven jurisdictions and interface with other programs within the Child & Family [...]
Debbie Sterrett Learns a Lot from Gallagher Services Clients
Twenty years may seem like a long time to hold the same job but not to Deb Sterrett. Deb has been the Junior Accountant at Gallagher Services for about that long. “It doesn’t seem like it’s been that many years. I guess time flies when you’re doing something you love,” Deb says. Unlike most of the [...]
Bill McCarthy Encourages Reading at an Early Age
Executive Director Bill McCarthy gets in character by wearing a moose hat during a reading of If You Give a Moose a Muffin to Head Start students in recognition of The Week of the Young Child. In addition to leaving the book and hat for future use at the early childhood education program, McCarthy brought [...]
Williams Guevara Martinez, unaccompanied minor, reunited with his siblings in Baltimore
His two-year saga September 10, 2014 The story on ABC2’s In Focus (their 6:00 p.m. news program) features Williams Guevara Martinez, who crossed the U.S. border two years ago as an unaccompanied minor and eventually was reunited with his siblings in the Baltimore area. The piece truly personalizes the traumatic experiences of the children and teenagers fleeing gang [...]
Introducing the 2014-2015 Project SERVE blog
by Michael Carr Hello Catholic Charities Blogites and Interweb Dwellers all!! It truly is an honor to write the first 2014-2015 Project SERVE blog! I want to start it off by saying that even though the seven of us only met a couple of weeks ago, we immediately had a terrific rapport. While we were [...]
A Pathway To Citizenship For One Unaccompanied Minor
Last September, Williams Guevara left behind his family’s cramped two-bedroom home near San Salvador to travel hundreds of miles by foot, by car, and in packed mini-busses to get to the US. He was 17. He was scared, he says, but making friends along the way made it a little better. READ MORE>>
For immigrants, legal advice, English class and hope
Dan Rodericks, Baltimore Sun August 2, 2014 Jermin Laviera, an energetic woman with a bright and generous smile, works on the first floor of the Esperanza Center in Southeast Baltimore, which gives her a street-level perspective on the immigrant crisis emanating hundreds of miles away in Central America. Just about every day, undocumented immigrants — parents with [...]