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April 18, 2010 - NOLA.com & The Times-Picayne
COFFEE TALK
Deaf community gathers monthly to relax, socialize Read More >
January 5, 2010 - NOLA.com & The Times-Picayune
MINISTRY FOCUSES ON SOCIAL JUSTICE
If one of your new year's resolutions was to make the world a better place, JustFaith might be just for you. Read More >
November 22, 2009 - NOLA.com & The Times-Picayune
AT-RISK HISPANIC STUDENTS GET A HAND UP IN AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM AT BONNABEL
Luis Torres and Erik Torres have more in common than a last name. Though not related, they are both 14 and repeating eighth grade, and thus are at high risk of leaving school before graduation. Read More >
November 6, 2009 - NOLA.com & The Times-Picayune
PORTRAITS CREATED FOR THOSE WHO LOST THEIRS IN HURRICANE KATRINA
Among the more than 100 professional photographers who gathered Thursday to take free family portraits for those who had lost their pictures during Hurricane Katrina, it was 8-year-old Leonard Reed who stole the show. Read More >
October 27, 2009 - NOLA.com & The Times-Picayune
JEFF SCHOOL SYSTEM AND CATHOLIC CHARITIES FORM PARTNERSHIP TO AID HISPANIC STUDENTS
The Jefferson Parish School Board and Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans are joining forces to help prepare Hispanic high school students for college. Read More >
September 29, 2009 - Catholic Charities News Release
PACE CELEBRATES TWO YEARS OF OPERATION WITH ‘LUNCH ON THE LAWN’ EVENT
Tuesday, September 29, PACE Greater New Orleans (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) will hold a “lunch on the lawn” to celebrate its two-year anniversary of providing comprehensive healthcare services to the seniors and their families.Read More >
Fall 2009 - Jefferson Life Magazine
FOCUSING ON REHABILITATING EX-OFFENDERS
Technological advancements are making a difference for law enforcement agencies throughout the country, and Jefferson Parish is no exception. Read More >
September 19, 2009 - Clarion Herald
HEALTH CARE REFORM A MATTER OF LIFE AND DIGNITY
During the Congressional recess, the health care reform debate amplified throughout the United States. Read More >
September 12, 2009 - Clarion Herald
HOW TO ENCOURAGE DAD TO FOLLOW DOCTOR’S ORDERS
Q: My father is 80 years old and in poor health. He complains that his doctor orders too many tests and that he does not want to follow a low-fat diet. He says he is not going to get better, so what does it matter. How much should we encourage him to follow the doctor’s orders? Read More >
September 11, 2009 - USCCB.org
USCCB OFFICIALS WELCOME PRESIDENT OBAMA’S STATEMENTS ON ABORTION, CARE FOR THE POOR IN RESPONSE TO HEALTH CARE ADDRESS
Calling it an important contribution to a crucial national debate, officials speaking on behalf of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops welcomed President Obama's September 9 address on health care reform, particularly his statements regarding abortion and the uninsured. Read More >
August 14, 2009 - NOLA.com
FOOD FOR FAMILIES WAREHOUSE BATTERED BY KATRINA IS RE-OPENED
Catholic Charities re-opened its Hurricane Katrina-battered Food for Families warehouse in eastern New Orleans this morning, officials announced. Read More >
July 21, 2009 - WWL.com
VICTIMS’ ADVOCATES SAY RECESSION CONTRIBUTES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
As the recession hits closer to home in Louisiana, battered women shelters say more men are hitting their wives and girlfriends. Officials with New Orleans Catholic Charities say economics is often a factor in cases they handle. Read More >
July 8, 2009 - The Times-Picayune
CATHOLIC CHARITIES SUMMER CAMP HELPS TEENS PUT SOCIAL JUSTICE VALUES INTO ACTION
Hard rock pumped out of an industrial-strength black and gold boom box Tuesday as five sweaty high school students spattered with drywall compound worked steadily to repair a storm-wrecked house a stone's throw from the site of the old St. Bernard public housing development. Read More >
June 30, 2009 - WWLTV.com
COUNCIL HOLDS HEARING TO PROTECT DAY LABORERS
A City Council committee is holding a hearing as they explore ways to punish contractors who fail to pay their workers, especially undocumented day laborers. Read More >
June 29, 2009 - The Times-Picayune
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: SUMMER, BROUGHT TO YOU BY...
Again this June and July, hundreds of low-income children in Southeast Louisiana will be receiving a safe, educational summer camp experience as a part of Catholic Charities' Summer Witness program. Read More >
June 25, 2009 - The Times-Picayune
NOPD NAMES LIAISON FOR HISPANIC RELATIONS
The New Orleans Police Department's appointment of an official Hispanic liaison will have a significant impact on the Hispanic community. Read More >
June 6, 2009 - The Times-Picayune
BILINGUAL OFFICER TO BE NOPD’S LIAISON TO HISPANIC COMMUNITY
In recognition of the local Hispanic population's growth -- and, perhaps its vulnerability to criminals -- the New Orleans Police Department is adding to the duties of its first and only Spanish-language translator. Read More >
May 28, 2009 - NY Times Journalism Institute
HOMELESS AND FORGOTTEN YEARS AFTER KATRINA
Christy Garrison’s 1997 silver Mitsubishi Diamante is her most prized possession. It provides her with storage. It’s where she eats. It’s where she sleeps. It is home. Read More >
May 27, 2009 - WDSU.com
COULD LANGUAGE BARRIER IMPEDE EVACUATION PROCESS?
Officials in Louisiana said they're worried that a language barrier could keep hundreds from evacuating during a serious storm. Read More >
March 23, 2009 - America
A COVENANT TO SERVE
As I write this, I am two weeks away from making my 14th trip to post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. Read More >
March 15, 2009 - The Times-Picayune
SPRING BREAK A REMINDER THAT VOLUNTEERS STILL STREAMING TO NEW ORLEANS TO HELP REBUILD
The staccato banging of dozens of hammers dispelled the morning quiet on a block in Hollygrove recently week as college students, lawyers and nurses from Massachusetts clambered about four new houses rapidly taking shape at the hands of Habitat for Humanity and St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church. Read More >
March 10, 2009 - The Times-Picayune
A STEP TOWARD SAFETY
The editorial writer was so very right. The change in the way domestic violence charges are prosecuted (in Criminal District Court, rather than Municipal Court) is a huge step forward in giving domestic violence the attention and consequences it deserves. Read More >
March 7, 2009 - WWL-TV
ECONOMY, HURRICANES SPARK UPTICK IN FOOD STAMP APPLICATIONS
Dennis Vereb came to New Orleans thinking it would be a big city with more opportunities. Read More >
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February 28, 2009 - The Clarion Herald
HOPE HAVEN TO GET PACE SENIOR HEALTH PROGRAM
In a major initiative that will expand social services on the Hope Haven campus in Marrero, Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans has announced plans to establish a comprehensive health care program for seniors and a hospitality training program targeting at-risk youths. Read More >
February 27, 2009 - The Times-Picayune
ADOPTION AN ALTERNATIVE
Recently, a young woman called Adoption Services of Catholic Charities from the hospital. I'll call her Mary. Read More >
February 11, 2009 - WGNO ABC 26
THE ARCHDIOCESE RESPONSE TO LOCAL INFANTICIDE CASES
The Catholic Church is committed to respect for human life in all its forms, especially those of the innocent and most vulnerable. Read More >
February 7, 2009 - The Clarion Herald
HARVARD STUDENTS SHARE KNOW-HOW WITH ‘CHARITY’
It didn’t take more than a few seconds to realize these students from the Harvard Business School meant business. Read More >
January 8, 2009 - The New York Times
HEALTHCARE DELIVERED AS IT SHOULD BE
Hardly anyone has a good word to say about this country’s fragmented system for delivering and paying for long-term care, with one exception: the P.A.C.E. program, which many experts laud as long-term care done right. Read More >
January 3, 2009 - The Clarion Herald
CATHOLIC CHARITIES RECEIVES NATIONAL ACCREDITATION
It’s fair to say the quest by Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans to gain the cherished stamp of approval from the national Council on Accreditation began under a huge black cloud on the weekend of Hurricane Katrina. Read More >
December 29, 2008 - WWL TV
PUBLIC SAFETY NO.1 CONCERN FOR HISPANIC COMMUNITY
Nilton Martinez's shop has changed a lot over the years. First it catered to Spanish music lovers and now it helps send money to loved ones in other countries. Read More >
December 26, 2008 - New Orleans Saints News Release
SAINTS HONOR COMMUNITY QUARTERBACKS
The New Orleans Saints announced today that Cyndi Nguyen of New Orleans is the 2008 winner of the Saints Community Quarterback Award. Read More >
November 29, 2008 - The Clarion Herald
‘ONE STOP SHOP’ AIDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS
The concept of a providing a “one-stop shop” for customers is a no-brainer: Wal- Mart has become a national retailing giant because of the prices and convenience it offers. Read More >
November 8, 2008 - The Clarion Herald
ADOPTION PROGRAM OPENS TO NEW APPLICATIONS
In recognition of National Adoption Awareness month, Catholic Charities will begin sending out questionnaires in November to those interested in being considered for the domestic adoption program. Read More >
October 7, 2008 - USA Today
FAITH-BASED GROUPS MAN RECOVERY FRONT LINES
Julius Moll stood and watched as workers tossed chunks of his mother's life into a heap in the front yard of her ruined home: shards of soggy dry wall, muddied mattresses, carpets, bed frames, a vacuum cleaner. Read More >
October 4, 2008 - The Clarion Herald
CATHOLIC CHARITIES URGED TO ‘BLOW ITS OWN HORN’
While former czar of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives John DiIulio was unstinting in his praise of the work they do, he also cautioned those attending the Catholic Charities USA conference in New Orleans that they need to be more vocal about their work. Read More >
October 2, 2008 - The Times-Picayune
IMMIGRATION EXPERT SHARES VIEWS ON N.O.
Three years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast, Oxfam America, an international relief and development organization that creates solutions to poverty, hunger and injustice, recently convened in Denver to discuss issues affecting the Gulf Coast and the work that remains to be done. Read More >
September 30, 2008 - WWL-TV
QUIET HERO: MAN SACRIFICES TO HELP FLOOD VICTIMS
A Southern California man moved to New Orleans after coming for a week to help out with a church group. Watch the video>
September 19, 2008 - WWL-TV
LAFITTE WORKS TO GET BACK TO NORMAL
The storm surge is finally draining away in Lafitte. Read More >
September 18, 2008 - The Associated Press
CATHOLIC CHARITIES AGAIN GUTTING HOUSES
Catholic Charities is again organizing volunteers to gut houses flooded by hurricanes. Read More >
September 15, 2008 - New Orleans City Business
HISPANICS LEERY OF EVACUATION PROCESS
MariaElena Michel-Melendez knew there was a problem with the city-assisted hurricane evacuation at Union Station when dozens of Hispanic people approached her and asked many of the same questions. Read More >
September 15, 2008 - The Times-Picayune
LATINO WORKERS DECIDED TO STAY DURING GUSTAV
For many Latino construction workers, the threat posed by Hurricane Gustav paled in comparison to the fear of getting caught and deported if they evacuated. Read More >
September 13, 2008 - The Clarion Herald
INTERPRETER PROVIDES NEEDED SERVICE TO THE DEAF
For the past two hurricanes – Katrina and Gustav – Shari Bernius has been the television voice for the hearing impaired in New Orleans. Read More >
September 13, 2008 - The Clarion Herald
CATHOLIC CHARITIES HIT GROUND RUNNING - BEFORE AND AFTER
It was more than simply the maroon T-shirts that made the staff members of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans visible before during and after Hurricane Gustav. Read More >
September 10, 2008 - The Times-Picayune
THOUSANDS LINE UP FOR FOOD STAMPS
The personal economic toll from the evacuation for Hurricane Gustav emerged in full force Tuesday as thousands of southeast Louisiana residents lined up for public and private relief, saying their treks to safety had pushed them to the financial brink. Read More >
September 5, 2008 - Catholic News Service
HOUMA-THIBODAUX FEARED LOUISIANA DIOCESE HIT HARDEST BY GUSTAV
Though it appeared Sept. 2 that the Archdiocese of New Orleans sustained minimal damage to its buildings and operations from Hurricane Gustav, New Orleans Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes feared the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux was battered the hardest of Louisiana's seven dioceses during the Labor Day-weekend storm. Read More >
September 4, 2008 - Catholic News Service
THREE YEARS AFTER KATRINA, RECOVERY CZAR'S BAD MEMORIES STILL VIVID
There are bad days -- and then there are incredibly bad days. Read More >
August 31, 2008 - The Times-Picayune
SIGNER OF THE TIMES
Shari Bernius communicates hurricane information to the hearing impaired. Read More >
August 14, 2008 - The Times-Picayune
GIRL POWER
Catholic Charities' St. Charles Regional Office in Luling recently hosted its annual Girl Power summer camp. Read More >
June 23, 2008 - The Times-Picayune
PLANNERS CRAFT STORM EVACUATION PLANS FOR HISPANICS
A burgeoning Hispanic population has helped rebuild New Orleans during the past two and a half years. Read More >
June 21, 2008 - The Times-Picayune
LOCALS ANSWER THE CALL TO IOWA
When Heather Hilliard was asked whether she could go to Iowa to help victims of the floods, she had just one question: "Where can I get tennis shoes?" she asked. Read More >
June 12, 2008 - The Times-Picayune
FLIP-FLOPS GIVEN AWAY IN PROGRAM
Flip-flop sandals made in China for a buck a pair may not set feet to dancing, but they put smiles on the faces of several dozen children at the St. John the Baptist Headstart program in Central City last week. Read More >
June 3, 2008 - The Times-Picayune
LET CONGRESS PAVE WAY FOR NEW CITIZENS (Guest Editorial)
When I was a teenager, close to 30 years ago, my parents were forced to leave the country where we were born for political reasons. Read More >
May 29, 2008 - The Times-Picayune
HELEN BROWN, 86, SELFLESS GIVER TO ALL
Helen Brown, who grew up in St. Elizabeth's Home for Girls and then spent 67 years doing volunteer work for the Uptown orphanage and its residents, died Saturday at Touro Infirmary of complications from an aneurysm. Read More >
May 22, 2008 - Intermountain Catholic News
VINCENTIANS GATHER, WORK, PRAY IN NEW ORLEANS
The Vincentian Family gathered in solidarity in New Orleans to lend a heart and a helping hand April 10-13. Read More >
May 19, 2008 - WWL TV
STATE LAWMAKERS TRYING TO FIX ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Watch Martin Gutierrez, Executive Director of Neighborhood and Community Services, explain why several bills in the Louisiana House of Representatives should not be passed. Watch Now >
May 17, 2008 - Clarion Herald
SENIORS HAVE MULTIPLE FITNESS, HEALTH OPTIONS
The single biggest challenge seniors face today is coordinated health care, says Dr. Elmore Rigamer, medical director of Catholic Charities. Read More >
May 12, 2008 - WWLTV.COM
SURVEY: ONLY ONE-THIRD FEEL THEY'VE RECOVERED FROM KATRINA, RITA
Only about a third of Louisiana residents impacted by Hurricanes Katrina or Rita feel they have ‘mostly recovered’ from the storms’ effects more than two and a half years later. Read More >
April 30, 2008 - WGNO ABC 26
DEAF SCAM
Watch a family helped by Deaf Action Center and Operation Helping Hands move back into their home. Watch Now >
April 19, 2008 - Clarion Herald
NEW YORK COUPLE DISCOVER RESILIENCE OF NEW ORLEANIANS
It was the first trip to New Orleans for Jack and Helene Gilroy of Endwell, N.Y., but it won’t be their last. Read More >
April 12, 2008 - Clarion Herald
CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS ISSUES PLANS FOR SOCIAL SERVICES, JUSTICE INITIATIVES
The Archdiocese, Catholic Charities and Religious Congregations in the Archdiocese are committed to providing the critical services and social justice initiatives necessary to help our local communities recover and rebuild. Read More >
April 11, 2008 - The Times-Picayune
CATHOLIC CHARITIES STAYS STRONGIn the wake of the Archdiocese of New Orleans' announcement this week of a plan to shrink the number of parishes across the region, leaders of the church's Catholic Charities arm say their work has greatly expanded since Hurricane Katrina and shows no sign of slowing. Read More >
April 5, 2008 - Clarion Herald
'REDEFINED' CRESCENT HOUSE STILL AIDING WOMEN
The numbers are staggering. Nationwide, one out of every four women is a victim of domestic violence, and that sad story is recounted daily by the women who come to Crescent House Healing and Empowerment Center seeking to escape an abusive husband or boyfriend. Read More >
April 3, 2008 - WGNO ABC 26
HELP FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE VICTIMS
Watch Crescent House's Chaila Williams at a recent resource fair for survivors of domestic violence. Watch Now >
March 18, 2008 - The Times-Picayune
CASH CRUNCH TO CLOSE KATRINA RELIEF NETWORK
A network of private relief workers that helped thousands of battered families put their lives together after Hurricane Katrina has begun unraveling with thousands of families still on waiting lists, even as its managers cast about for new sources of money to keep it going at a reduced level. Read More >
March 1, 2008 - The Times-Picayune
STILL COMING
For the third year since Hurricane Katrina, thousands of college students are pouring into New Orleans this month, using their spring break to frame walls, install flooring and drywall, scrape and paint and offer other help to older, year-round volunteers working to rebuild flood-damaged New Orleans. Read More >
February 23, 2008 - Clarion Herald
2007 ACA CAMPAIGN RAISES MORE THAN $1.5 MILLION
The Archbishop’s Community Appeal, which supports the work of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans, has exceeded its $1.5 million goal this year. Read More >
February 18 - The Times-Picayune
CREDIT UNION TO SERVE HISPANIC WORKERS; BILINGUAL ASI BRANCH TO OPEN IN MID-CITY
The recently refurbished Mid-City strip shopping center that is home to Rock 'n' Bowl is about to get another unique tenant: an "all Latino" credit union office where every employee speaks Spanish and English and all documents are printed in both languages. Read More >
February 16, 2008 - Clarion Herald
FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER SEEKS TO AID ABUSED WOMEN
Service providers coming together to meet the needs of adult and child victims of family violence or sexual abuse is the essence of the six-month-old New Orleans Family Justice Center. Read More >
January 28, 2008 - The Times-Picayune
FOSTER HOMES ARE IN SHORT SUPPLY; STATE FACES CRISIS IN CHILD WELFARE
For one New Orleans teenager, a year in the foster care system has added up to more than a lifetime of moves. Read More >
January 26, 2008 - Clarion Herald
UNITY GROUP, ARCHDIOCESE SEEK TO HELP HOMELESS
“Everyone deserves to have affordable housing,” said Kaleshe Garrison-Hill, contracts manager for UNITY Greater New Orleans, a non-profit agency that works to end homelessness. Read More >
January/February - MedEsthetics Magazine
BIOFORM MEDICAL HELPS WITH HURRICANE RELIEF
Bioform Medical, San Mateo, California, volunteers pitched in at two events for Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans programs. Read More >
January 5, 2008 - Clarion Herald
ON-THE-JOB TRAINING, BIG HEARTS FUEL REBUILD
A few months ago, AmeriCorps volunteer Scott Porot's construction experience consisted almost exclusively of watching home improvement shows on television. Read More >
January 5, 2008 - Clarion Herald
'BROTHER' MARTIN WORKS OVERTIME TO FIND JOBS FOR OTHERS
Consider Shirone Martin an angel in the pocket of the downtrodden seeking employment in New Orleans. Read More >
December 16, 2007 - The Times-Picayune
BEST GIFT TO CHILD IS GIFT OF SELF
Ready or not, Christmas is coming, and along with it, all the hoopla of traffic, shopping, long lines and unnecessary spending. Read More >
December 15, 2007 - The Times-Picayune
CATFISH AND HUGS
Around dusk Thursday, their day's work done, the teens began to file into the spartan cafeteria at St. Raymond Parish in Gentilly, where the aroma of fresh-fried catfish wafted out into the parking lot.Read More >
December 11, 2007 - The Times-Picayune
CARE CENTER KEEPS ELDERS THRIVING
Before she started coming to PACE of Greater New Orleans last month, Myrtle Nixon, 81, spent most weekdays by herself. Read More >
December 1, 2007 - Clarion Herald
IMPELLED BY CHRIST'S CALL, COUPLE COMES TO SERVE
It was two days before Thanksgiving, but instead of preparing for large family gatherings, Tom and Kay Conroy were standing on tall ladders priming and painting the exterior of a stranger’s home on Jackson Avenue in New Orleans. Read More >
November 24, 2007 - Clarion Herald
AFTER SCHOOL CENTERS PROVIDE LEARNING AND FUN
At 3 p.m. on any given weekday, students begin arriving at St. John Community Center’s After School Assembly Program for three hours of homework, art, tutoring, playtime and snacks. Read More >
November 5, 2007 - New Orleans City Business
SISTER ACT
The Daughters of Charity and Ascension Health will open a new health clinic in 10 months for the Bywater and Ninth Ward neighborhoods. Read More >
November 5, 2007 - New Orleans City Business
NEW ORLEANS IS YOUNGER AFTER LOSS OF SENIORS
Gordon Wadge, president of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans, remembers talking with his elderly mother, Gloria Wadge, shortly after Hurricane Katrina. Read More >
October 29, 2007 - The Times-Picayune
CLINIC TO SERVE UNINSURED WORKERS
Catholic Charities has begun gathering support from religious congregations across the city to open a faith-based health center for the working poor, the population that makes too much money to qualify for government benefits but too little to afford private health insurance.Read More >
October 20, 2007 - Clarion Herald
HEALTH CENTER FOR WORKING POOR MOVES FORWARD
“I truly believe that it has been the church that has stood up and made the difference (in New Orleans’ revival) in the last two years,” Dr. Scott Morris, founder and executive director of the Church Health Center in Memphis, told faith and business leaders gathered Oct. 10 to discuss a proposed church-backed healthcare center for the working uninsured in New Orleans. Read More >
October 11, 2007 - The Jefferson Picayune
DANCER FINDS HER RHYTHM AT HOPE HAVEN
The fledgling ballroom dance teacher moved about the group of students, offering encouragement, flashing a friendly smile and demonstrating the male and female parts with equal skill. Read More >
October 5, 2007 - The Times-Picayune
Editorial: A WORTHY APPEAL
It's hard to overstate the demand charitable organizations have faced since Hurricane Katrina to assist people across the metro area. Read More >
September 29, 2007 - Clarion Herald
CATHOLIC CHARITIES' REFUGEE OFFICE BUSIER THAN EVER
It’s a modest office by any measure, yet the Office of Immigration and Refugee Services Catholic Charities Archdiocese New Orleans is more than just four walls and furniture. It’s a place of hopes, dreams and new beginnings for refugees arriving in the United States. Read More >
September 22, 2007 - Clarion Herald
PACE CENTER HELPS ELDERLY STAY AT HOME LONGER
The New Orleans area now has a comprehensive senior health and day care center with the recent opening of the Shirley Landry Benson PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) Center at the former St. Cecilia Church on North Rampart Street. Read More >
September 16, 2007 - The Times-Picayune
DATABASE HELPING HISPANICS LAND JOBS; LOCAL FIRMS URGED TO TAP INTO RESOURCE
After Hurricane Katrina, Ines Orellana couldn't figure out a way to get back home to New Orleans. Read More >
September 3, 2007 - The Times-Picayune
A MATTER OF TRUST
Five years ago, Melodie Araibi was at her lowest point as she began a five-year sentence at St. Gabriel prison on drug charges. Read More >
September 1, 2007 - Clarion Herald
YOUNG PIONEERS: THEY CAME, THEY HELPED AND STAYED
Not all young professionals have abandoned New Orleans. Several came here as volunteers who wanted to help after the storm and saw the passion of the city and its people. Read More >
August 20, 2007 - Catholic News Service
PROGRAM AIMS TO HELP CHILDREN RECOVER FROM KATRINA-RELATED TRAUMA
Schoolchildren in the New Orleans area suffering emotionally from the effects of Hurricane Katrina are benefiting from a new faith-centered mental health program aimed at helping children exposed to trauma from natural and manmade disasters. Read More >
August 18, 2007 - Clarion Herald
CHURCH HAS STEADILY MINISTERED IN POST-KATRINA YEARS
This report has been prepared to communicate some of the work accomplished by the Archdiocese of New Orleans in the days and months following Hurricane Katrina. Read More >
July 24, 2007 - USA TODAY
FAITH REBUILDS HEART AND SOUL
Many credit religious volunteers with much of the region's progress. About 11,000 properties in New Orleans have been improved in some way, either through gutting, boarding up or cutting the grass. Non-profit charities have gutted nearly 4,700 houses, says David Robinson-Morris, a spokesman for Mayor Ray Nagin. Read More >
July 23, 2007 - The Times-Picayune
SUMMER JOBS
They could just as easily do what young people typically do during their precious summer free time: work various odd or part-time jobs, lounge around a beach or do nothing at all.Read More >
July 12, 2007 - New Orleans City Business
BUSINESSES CATER TO GROWING HISPANIC POPULATION
Taco trucks are not the only prominent symbol of the New Orleans metro area’s changing demographics. Read More >
June 18, 2007 - The Times-Picayune
FIRE PUTS SOMBER FACE ON CITY'S HOUSING CRUNCH
It's tough enough finding an affordable apartment in New Orleans. But when you're feeding six children on $1,300 a month, it can seem close to impossible. Read More >
June 10, 2007 - The Times-Picayune
CHURCH REWRITES ITS STORM SCRIPT
Shaken by the ordeal of Hurricane Katrina, the Archdiocese of New Orleans, like many institutions, has spent months hardening its organization, investing in hardware, planning and training to weather another disaster, church officials said. Read More >
June 10, 2007 - The Times-Picayune
HELPING EX-CONS FIND JOBS COULD REDUCE CRIME RATE
It was four years ago, but Earl Truvia still remembers breezing through the first part of the job application. Then came the section labeled "work history."Read More >
May 26, 2007 - The Clarion Herald
MENTAL HEALTH CONCERN TO ARCHDIOCESE MEDICAL DIRECTOR
Dr. Elmore Rigamer, the medical director of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans, is a practicing psychiatrist who knows intuitively and also by hard experience that the mental health crisis in the region, already a powder keg, is getting ready to explode. Read More >
May 26, 2007 - The Clarion Herald
ARCHDIOCESAN DISASTER COORDINATOR BUSY PLANNING, TRAINING
Colleen D’Aquin’s feet haven’t touched the ground much in the last 10 months. The new director of emergency management for the Archdiocese of New Orleans has been too busy putting her plans in place for the 2007 hurricane season. Read More >
May 19, 2007 - The Clarion Herald
ST. JUDE CENTER RESPONDS TO NEED FOR SHELTER, FOOD
With babies in their arms or toddlers sitting next to them coloring, nearly a dozen women listened as Eancia Mundy, R.N., imparted information about child immunizations and domestic abuse. Read More >
May 17, 2007 - The Times-Picayune
MENTAL HEALTH PLAN AIMED AT SCHOOLS
Several schools from throughout the area, including seven from East Jefferson, are participating in Project Fleur-de-lis, a free, school-based mental health program for children started in response to Hurricane Katrina. Read More>
May 15, 2007 - The Associated Press
HUNGRY FOR HELP
Louisiana's food banks asked lawmakers Tuesday to use $15 million in state surplus money to buy food for the poor, another in a long list of requests to the House Appropriations Committee. Read More >
May 8, 2007 - The Times-Picayune
EX-OFFENDERS GET A SECOND CHANCE
At the age of 10, Leo Jackson Jr. had a lot of hopes for his future. Read More >
March 17, 2007 - The Clarion Herald
FOSTER GRANDPARENTS PROVIDE ENCOURAGEMENT TO YOUTH
It was 10:30 on a recent Wednesday morning at Jefferson Community School, and, as math teacher Susan Block explained the geometric properties of a circle to a class of seventh graders, Papa Bienvenu and Papa Amaya stood ready for a rescue. Read More >
March 10, 2007 - The Times-Picayune
A WELCOME TIDE
On a clear, bright morning this week, Kara Huselton, a Boston College freshman from Rochester, N.Y., muscled a dead washing machine out the second-floor door of a vacant duplex on Franklin Avenue and, with the help of two friends, tipped it over a railing to fall two stories with a satisfying crash. Read More >
March 10, 2007 - The Times-Picayune
"WHEN SOMEONE'S IN NEED, WE HAVE TO HELP THEM."
This time last year, as John Graziano approached graduation at the University of Dayton, his path began to diverge from those of many of his classmates.Read More >
January 13, 2007 - The Clarion Herald
SUGAR BOWL'S 'SWEET REVIVAL'
This was a huddle with a big difference. Read More >
December 3, 2006 - The Times-Picayune
HELPING HANDS VOLUNTEERS LAUDED AT MQP
They've worked in temperatures from 30 degrees to 90 degrees, with volunteers from 17 to 70 years old; they've tackled refrigerators that reeked and consoled homeowners who wept. Read More >
November 11, 2006 - The Clarion Herald
CATHOLIC CHARITIES RECRUITING FAMILIES FOR DOMESTIC ADOPTION DURING NOVEMBER
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New Orleans is recruiting families for its domestic adoption program during November, which is National Adoption Awareness Month. Read More >
November 9, 2006 – The Times-Picayune
MEDIA MUST DO BETTER JOB OF REACHING HISPANICS
The local media's ability to reach the growing Hispanic population of New Orleans was the focus of a town hall meeting sponsored by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists at Tulane University on Friday. Read More >
November 9, 2006 – The Times-Picayune
PROVIDENCE SCHOLARSHIP PLAN EXPANDED
Not everything about Hurricane Katrina was tragic. Just ask Gloria Cabrera, early childhood education administrator for Catholic Charities. Read More >
November 9, 2006 – Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
OPENING EARS, HEARTS TO CRIES STILL HEARD FROM NEW ORLEANS
In September, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester celebrated the first anniversary of a special partnership with the Archdiocese of New Orleans, which was initiated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to support the rebuilding of New Orleans. Read More >
October 27, 2006 - AsianWeek.com
NEW ORLEANS VIETNAMESE AND LATINOS ADAPT TOGETHER AFTER KATRINA
Taqueria Mexico used to be a thriving Vietnamese restaurant called Bien Tinh, or Ocean Love. Now under new ownership, its waitresses serve salsa in the floral faux-china bowls that once held fish sauce. Read More >
October 7, 2006 – The Clarion Herald
ST. VINCENT MATERNITY CLINIC NURSE TO RECEIVE STATE AWARD
In her 17 years as a nurse with St. Vincent Maternity Clinic, Darleen Crane has experienced the heartbreak of women who have made bad choices and the joy of those who have survived difficult personal situations to give birth. Read More >
October 5, 2006 – The Times Picayune
COUPLE HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH N.O.
Andrea Davey and Eirik Gislason will be married at the Academy of the Sacred Heart Chapel on Saturday, and their guests have begun arriving. Today, several of them will join the bride and groom in a unique pre-wedding activity: They will help them gut a house in Gentilly. Read More >
October 5, 2006 – The Times-Picayune
OFFICIALS FLOAT PLANS FOR SITE OF LAFITTE
Developers unveiled ambitious plans this week for a revamping of the Treme and the Tulane/Gravier neighborhoods that include the Lafitte public housing complex, with promises to build at least 1,500 homes to replace subsidized units lost to Hurricane Katrina. Read More >
September 20, 2006 – The Times-Picayune
AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS ARE OFFERED
With dozens of elementary schools in New Orleans still struggling to restart vital after-school programs, many parents have been struggling to find care for their children during critical afternoon hours when hundreds of students sit at home or roam the streets unsupervised. Read More >
August 31, 2006 – The Indian Catholic
BUSH PRAISES CATHOLIC HURRICANE AID
Speaking on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, President George Bush highlighted how Catholic Charities is helping rebuild the lives of hurricane victims who have returned home. Read More >
August 26, 2006 – Clarion Herald
’GROUPS KEEP AN EYE ON HISPANICS WORKING CONDITIONS
At 6:15 a.m., Hispanic men gather in clusters and sit curbside chatting and eating tacos con huevos y frijoles being sold from the back of a sedan. Honduran native Wilfredo Quevara steps aside to describe the problems that he and other day laborers face getting paid for their construction work to help rebuild New Orleans. Read More >
August 26, 2006 – Clarion Herald
SECOND HARVEST CONTINUES FAST PACE OF FOOD DISTRIBUTION
When Natalie Jayroe took over as executive director of Second Harvest Food Bank after the first of the year, she went into an agency that had already more than doubled its annual operations in the three months following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Read More >
August 19, 2006 – Clarion Herald
HEALTH CARE CENTER OPENED IN BYWATER AT ST. CECILIA
One of the casualties of Hurricane Katrina was health care for the elderly, poor and indigent in the city of New Orleans. And one clinic, which was just weeks away from its grand opening last August, was most affected. Read More >
August 11, 2006 – Clarion Herald
’’GETTING THE DISABLED OUT OF HARMS WAY PADUAS TASK
Personal hurricane evacuation plans are simple compared to the one in place at Padua Community Services in Belle Chasse. The Catholic Charities program cares for 75 persons, mostly children, with severe developmental disabilities. Many are nonambulatory and lack trunk control. Padua also must be ready to move its residents out of the danger zone far in advance of any official hurricane evacuation order. Read More >
August 5, 2006 – Clarion Herald
VOLUNTEERS STILL NEEDED TO REPAIR HOMES DAMAGED BY KATRINA
Catholic Charities agencies in Louisiana and Mississippi are in desperate need of volunteers to clean or repair homes damaged nearly a year ago by Hurricane Katrina, according to Catholic Charities USA in Alexandria. Read More >
July 29, 2006 – Clarion Herald
COUNSELING AT SCHOOLS TO HELP KIDS GET OVER TRAUMA
The question of “what next?” hit Dr. Douglas Walker, a licensed psychologist, almost as quickly as Hurricane Katrina left town last August. Read More >
July 27, 2006 – The Times-Picayune
OFFICIALS SEE THE FACE OF HOMELESSNESS CHANGED
For years, the Jefferson Parish Care Center, a homeless shelter in Marrero operated by Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans, has worked with people who teetered on the edge of homelessness. Read More >
July 25, 2006 – St. Anthony Messenger
–’HIGHER GROUND 4 FIND HOPE, UNSINKABLE FAITH IN KATRINAS WAKE
The poet and author Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote that “the great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” For many displaced people of New Orleans, where they stand hasn’t changed much in the last year. Read More >
July 12, 2006 – The Times-Picayune
CAMP KIDS MIX FUN AND LEARNING
For 75 St. John the Baptist Parish youngsters, summer vacation has been part work and part play. The students, ages 8-13, participated in the annual Summer Witness program, held at Garyville/Mt. Airy Math and Science Magnet School. The six-week program ends Thursday. Read More >
July 8, 2006 – Clarion Herald
SOARING HOPES FOR CITY ON MEND
The Summer Witness camp sponsored by Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans has provided summer fun and academic enrichment to children since the mid-1960s, when former Archbishop Philip Hannan opened the swimming pool at Notre Dame Seminary so that African-American kids locked out of public pools in New Orleans could have a place to swim. Read More >
June 14, 2006 – New Orleans City Business
‘’FOSTER CARE NEED GROWING DESPERATE
In the summer of 1994, Beverly Smith and her husband, Robert, became foster parents to their first medically fragile child. His name was Anthony and he was 2 1/2 years old, wheelchair bound and a suspected victim of shaken baby syndrome, according to Smith. Read More >
May 19, 2006 – The Times-Picayune
‘’NO FINDERS KEEPERS IN THIS HOUSE
The light green house in the 2700 block of St. Anthony Street in New Orleans' 7th Ward was the first home to be gutted by 18 college students from Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia. Read More >
April 30, 2006 - The Times-Picayune
ASSISTANCE PROGRAM HAS LOUISIANA SPIRIT
Professional crisis counselors and trained community members working with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New Orleans are canvassing neighborhoods, offering door-to-door assistance that can help people rebuild their lives after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Read More >
April 27, 2006 – The Washington Post
IN NEW ORLEANS, BUSH ENCOURAGES VOLUNTEERISM
President Bush on Thursday wrapped his arm around a symbol of the devastation and hope of this ravaged city: Ethel Williams, one of the thousands of people who lost almost everything to Hurricane Katrina. Read More >
February 16, 2006 – The Times-Picayune
CATHOLIC CHARITIES JOINS WITH CHURCHES TO HELP
From the beginning of Katrina's devastation in the New Orleans metro area, Catholic Charities, the primary health and human service arm of the New Orleans Archdiocese, has provided services throughout the region, including Slidell, where it has partnered with St. Luke Catholic Church. Read More >
February 5, 2006 - The Times-Picayune
HISPANICS BRING AGENCY NEW URGENCY
The Hispanic community in Kenner has changed dramatically since Hurricane Katrina, and the Hispanic Apostolate of the Archdiocese of New Orleans has adapted along with it. Read More >
January 26, 2006 – The Times-Picayune
POST-STORM STRESS COUNSELING AVAILABLE
People who need help coping with post-Katrina life in the Slidell area can call on Counseling Solutions, a program of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans and United Way. Read More >
January 21, 2006 – The Times-Picayune
HAPPY TO GET THEIR HANDS DIRTY
Standing in her Lakeview home, Gerry Heigle recently surveyed the progress of 13 students from the University of Notre Dame who had spent the previous three days -- among the last of their four-week winter break -- tearing out moldy sheetrock, rotting carpet and a zillion rusting nails that bathed in floodwater for two weeks after Hurricane Katrina. Read More >
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