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Advocacy helps avert cuts to projected state funding
Clients and patients who use Medicaid to pay for their care, and the professionals who care for them, will not be impacted now that the threat of a cut to projected reimbursement rates has been [...]
A bond like few could find
When COVID-19 forced Gallagher Services’ residential sites into quarantine, Hugh Downey was spending his working days in the home of four men supported through the program. The group quickly became like a family. [...]
Catholic Charities faces significant impact from proposed state budget cuts
With the COVID-19 crisis still underway, Catholic Charities' 2021 fiscal-year budget faces a significant challenge in a newly proposed state budget. The budget cut proposal, just introduced, would leave funding for Medicaid provider rates flat [...]
DACA decision means families stay whole, workers stay employed
The Supreme Court’s decision to prevent phase-out or shutdown of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, means families can stay together, recipients won’t lose their jobs, and industries won’t lose valuable employees. [...]
Hotline leads to food delivery for COVID-tested neighbors
Dozens of individuals have been able to prevent potential spread of COVID-19 in the last week by staying home and receiving food delivery from the Esperanza Center in a new effort that was borne from [...]
Social unrest: How do we respond?
by Ron Means, MD Chief Medical Officer Forensic Psychiatrist Catholic Charities Chief Medical Officer Ron Means, MD, recently offered to our colleagues the below reflection on social unrest and how it affects the way our [...]