Ensuring back rent doesn’t stop kids from going back to school
Erin Sessions understands that it doesn't take much for a family to tip into crisis, or for that crisis to unravel their lives. The case manager of Catholic Charities' Park Heights Family Stability program has [...]
Far more than a construction project: the Cherry Hill Town Center
In early March, Catholic Charities and its partners gathered to celebrate a groundbreaking at the Cherry Hill Town Center – the kick-off to a multi-phase project that will renovate the building’s facade, welcome the neighborhood's [...]
Is telehealth here to stay?
Three months into the quarantine prompted by COVID-19, Behavioral Health Administrator Karen Haughey asked her team to think about how a sudden pivot to providing counseling and other behavioral health services online and over [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]