Giving Kids a Head Start
Catholic Charities Head Start and Early Head Start provide early education, child development and intervention programs for 918 children at 20 sites in Baltimore City, Harford County and Carroll County. We also operate two home-based [...]
A volunteer’s voice: A visible mission
by Kristen Hasse, Messiah College student and Alternative Spring Break volunteer Serving with Catholic Charities this past week was an amazing experience! All of the programs that my group and I had the opportunity to [...]
Catholic Charities opens a Safe Streets site in the Brooklyn-Curtis Bay community
With a proven track record in community relations and violence interruption, Catholic Charities opens its second Safe Streets site in the Brooklyn, southwest Baltimore (Baltimore, MD – June 11, 2019) Demonstrating a proven ability to [...]
The many faces of homelessness
Dear Friends, How do you know if a person is homeless? This is the question I recently posed while speaking at St. Ursula School. The children were eager to answer, and all chimed in, “They [...]
A new weapon in the fight to curb violence in Brooklyn
The power of on-the-street violence intervention will soon be amplified in Baltimore's Brooklyn-Curtis Bay community. Catholic Charities has been approved to operate a second Safe Streets location, after proven success in Sandtown-Winchester. Safe Streets Brooklyn [...]
WYPR’s Out of the Block podcast features Christopher Place Employment Academy
One man spent more than half his life in prison. Another fled his country to avoid religious persecution and ended up on the street. One was left to live alone at age 12. One relapsed [...]