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Potatoes and potential
What do you do with almost 20,000 pounds of potatoes? Eric Jackson of the Black Yield Institute receives potatoes for families in Cherry Hill If you're First Fruits Farm in Freeland, Maryland, you [...]
With extraordinary spikes in unemployment, new help for families
In the last month, as the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically slowed the U.S. economy, more than 500 Maryland families asked Catholic Charities for help with expenses. In response, on April 22, Catholic Charities expanded its Supplemental [...]
Feeling loved from a (social) distance
Percy Poindexter Twice a week for the past two years, Percy Poindexter boarded a shuttle that took him to St. Ann Adult Day Services in southwest Baltimore, where the 72-year-old spent the day [...]
Weinberg Housing and Resource residents to move to hotel
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Collins, Director of Communications ccollins@cc-md.org 667-600-2008 PLEASE NOTE: Out of respect for the dignity of our residents, you are not invited to take photos or video. Thank you for understanding. [...]
Guest post: WBAL-TV’s Megan Pringle
We are grateful to WBAL-TV reporter Megan Pringle for her touching reflection and for her commitment to concern for our neighbors experiencing homelessness, poverty and food insecurity. Megan Pringle I have been working [...]
Calling for care: mental and behavioral health during the COVID crisis
Mental health and substance use issues don’t take a break in a pandemic – so neither do the therapists at Catholic Charities’ clinics. Through an agile, largely online response, staff at the 10 Villa Maria [...]