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, No. 80

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Highlights from CCUSA

CCUSA affordable housing institute

The Housing Institute will be an opportunity for members of the
Housing Community of Practice to provide input on goals and an agenda
for the next year. The Institute will also feature affordable housing
project presentations where attendees can learn about project
structures and discuss project financing needs. Finally, the Institute
will conclude with peer-to-peer breakout sessions where members
seeking project consultations will be matched with experienced member
agency developers. Register here.
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2020 AIDE is Virtual - Registration is Now Open

Join your fellow Disaster practitioners and network experts for three
days of education, networking, and fun as we bring together the
Applied Institute for Disaster Excellence as a free virtual lite
training. Participating in AIDE Lite is one of the best ways to be in
the "know" about disaster response and recovery best practices,
particularly when coupled with responding to the pandemic and
systematic racism that has led to widespread community unrest. Click
here to register.
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Events and Webinars

"Creating a culture of healthy eating" webinar

Nutrition is at the root of much of the ill health of the poor, and
the importance of underlying health conditions has been brought home
at tragic levels through COVID-19. For 80 years, Edmundite MIssions
has served Selma, Alabama, the poorest city in the poorest county in
one of the poorest states in the nation. In a year of effort, the
Missions has shown how to combine food provision and improved
nutrition in extremely poor populations not only to walk the talk of
the nutritional value of its work in measurable ways, but also to
create nutrition advocates among its young, including the high school
football team, an Alabama icon. And all for pennies on the dollar. The
speaker is: Susan Raymond, Ph.D., Chief Innovation officer and Vice
President, Program Integration, Edmundite Missions, Selma, AL.
Register here.
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Mission in Action: Year of Service Programs at Catholic Charities
Webinar

Date: Oct 06, 2020 at 2:00 PM EDT. Join us to learn how Catholic
Charities are leveraging year-of-service volunteers to expand services
in their communities. During this panel discussion, we will highlight
three different program types: faith-based, AmeriCorps, and locally
operated service programs, as well as best practices in utilizing
year-of-service volunteers, common pitfalls, and project
sustainability. Register here.
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Working with those impacted by incarceration webinar

The workshop will highlight two approaches that support families
impacted by incarceration. 1) A prison ministry model that works
across rural Iowa utilizing volunteers who serve as mentors via Circle
of Support group. Additionally, highlighted is the role of restorative
justice in their work. 2) Catholic Charities New Orleans has an
innovation public/private partnership with the Plaquemines Parish Jail
and other community partners allowing staff to work, pre-lease that
supports housing and employment. Join our presenters to scan some of
the network's ministries to those impacted by incarceration.
Date: Oct. 13, 2020, at 3:00 PM EDT. Register here.
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Initiative to end girl's incarceration - A review of
national literature and best practices

Join us for a webinar on Oct. 14, 2020, at 1:00 PM EDT. Register here.
Please join CCUSA staff and Vera Institute of Justice's
Initiative to End Girls' Incarceration team to discuss national
data on pathways that bring girls in contact with the justice system.
In addition, the staff from the Vera Institute will explore promising
practices to disrupt these pathways and prevent confinement. After
registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the webinar. View System Requirements.
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PREPARES - CCUSA Innovation Challenge finalist

Join this webinar to learn about PREPARES, a Catholic Charities USA
Innovation Challenge finalist which presently engages over 500
volunteers from 159 parishes who have served 12,000 families. This
parish-based program engages a network of parish volunteers,
professional staff, and aligned programs to accompany pregnant and
parenting women, men, and families with children under five who live
in poverty and lack a healthy support network. PREPARES successfully
alleviates poverty, increases health care access, and protects
children at risk of abuse and neglect. Created by the bishops of
Washington state in 2013, funding from the USCCB and CCHD enabled
three state Catholic Charities agencies to begin implementation,
including Catholic Charities Eastern Washington as featured in this
webinar. Date: October 14, 2020, at 3 PM. Register here.
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Integrating Trauma-Informed Care with Immigrant Refugee Minors webinar

Date: Oct 20, 2020 at 2:00 PM EDT. Unaccompanied refugee minors
enter the United States after being displaced due to conflict in their
home countries and are placed in community foster homes. Integrating a
comprehensive trauma-informed approach that includes case management,
counseling, legal assistance, psychiatric and basic needs help improve
their self-sufficiency and outcomes. Join us for an overview of the
trauma-informed comprehensive services (foster parents, counseling,
legal assistance psychiatric and basic needs) being used by Catholic
Charities Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston to support unaccompanied
refugee minors. NOTE: This webinar offers 1.0 Continuing Education
Credit. Register here.  
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The Science of Evaluation: Designing an Evaluation Framework from
Scratch Webinar

Date: Oct 21, 2020 at 1:00 PM EDT. Join us to explore the Science of
Evaluation. In this webinar, attendees will be exposed to a framework
that can help guide the design of evaluation systems. Drawing from the
experience of Catholic Charities of Central Colorado, the presentation
will introduce an evaluation model, dissect its elements, discuss its
relationship to strategic planning, and offer lessons learned from a
member agency's evaluation project. Register here. 
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Homeless Services and Activities in the CCUSA Network

Date: October 22, Time 3:00pm-4:30pm. Register here. This webinar will
explore the homeless services and activities of two Catholic Charity
agencies: Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Youngstown, Ohio and
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. The agencies
will share some of their unique program structures and approaches as
well as their engagement with local stakeholders. The presentations by
the agencies will set the stage for an open discussion among attendees
that will focus on two specific items: 1. Engagement with the Local
Continuum of Care; 2. Use and Deployment of Rapid Re-Housing Funds. It
is the intent that this discussion will be the first of an on-going
dialogue among CCUSA network homeless service providers regarding
challenges and issues faced in the provision of homeless services and
innovative approaches to address these challenges. NOTE: 
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This webinar offers 1.0 Continuing Education Credit. Course completion
requirements - To earn CE credit, participants must log in at the
scheduled time, attend the webinar and complete an online course
evaluation and CEC post-test. The post-test survey will close 7
days after you receive the link to your email. CE Certificates
will be emailed within 10 business days of course completion.

From Siloed to Self-Aware: A Collaborative Approach to Effective Donor
and Volunteer Engagement Webinar

Date: Oct 28, 2020 at 2:00 PM EDT. Siloed behavior within a team
culture is divisive, and employees are sometimes disinclined to
collaborate. Research shows that minimizing competitive behaviors is
feasible through applying the concept of collaboration. This session
will use experiences of Catholic Charities of Washingto.n, DC's
Development, Volunteer, and Communications teams as a case study to
show how to build a more collaborative work environment. Register
here. 
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SNAP Education: A state-wide approach to increasing healthy lifestyles
for those most in need

The Federal SNAP Education Program supports healthy, active, and
nourished lifestyles by providing low-income households with access to
nutrition and physical activity education, and by leading healthy
community initiatives at the local level. This workshop will provide a
road map for how a statewide network of Catholic Charities agencies
use the SNAP Ed program across their state to increase healthy
lifestyles with those living on a SNAP budget. Join us for a webinar
on Nov. 4, 2020, at 3 PM EST. Register here. After registering you
will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining
the webinar. View system requirements.
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Arriving Alone - Needs and Programming for Unaccompanied Migrant
Children in Foster Care webinar

Date: Nov 05, 2020 at 2:00 PM EST. Join us in exploring the challenges
that unaccompanied migrant children face, the needs they present and
the services that contribute to their ability to thrive in their new
communities. This webinar will highlight how USCCB's model provides
continuity of care for youth coming into the United States, including
pursuit of legal relief, reunification with family and sponsors in the
community and long-term foster care and independent living options for
youth who are granted legal status. Come learn about the services
youth rely on to succeed and how USCCB's network of foster care
providers supports the long-term health, well-being and integration of
unaccompanied migrant children by placing them in a community setting.
PLEASE NOTE: This webinar offers 1.0 Continuing Education Credit.
Register here.
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CCUSA Webinar - How to Educate Your Staff: A Catholic Charities of St.
Louis Case Study

Date: Nov 11, 2020 at 3:00 PM EST. An overwhelming need in all
organizations is to provide professional development for staff on a
consistent basis. Catholic Charities of St. Louis embarked on a
journey to meet that need in a coordinative fashion by creating the
Federation Training Program. This program provides professional
development to staff at all levels in clinical topics, management
development, personal enrichment, and safety on an ongoing basis. This
presentation will describe the evolution of this program, demonstrate
the resources used, the multi-level evaluation processes applied, and
the performance improvements to elevate this initiative on an ongoing
basis. Finally, the presentation will also include the results of a
comprehensive analysis to monetize the value of these trainings and
discuss how these concepts can be applied in the audiences'
organizations.  Register here.
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Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County offers social media contest

Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County is promoting a social media
contest to get the word out to our diverse communities about the
importance of being tested for COVID 19 and the importance of
following health guidelines for keeping safe and keeping our
communities safe.

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Grant Opportunities and Resources

Grant Opportunity - CCUSA Financial Education AmeriCorps Program

CCUSA is currently looking for additional grantee(s) for the Financial
Education AmeriCorps program to fulfill one full time slot or one half
time slot or both a full time and half time slot! The AmeriCorps
members in this program will use the FDIC Money Smart curriculum to
educate clients of all ages on how to enhance their financial skills
and create positive banking relationships. This program will help
clients improve financial literacy and navigate financial decisions
more efficiently.  If your agency is interested in hosting an
AmeriCorps member to serve in your community, please reach out to
Teiara Turner at [email protected].

Finding homes for children, youth waiting in US foster care system

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is leading a
national effort, championed by Assistant Secretary Lynn Johnson, to
garner commitments and build strategic partnerships with the goal of
finding loving, permanent homes for the nearly 122,000 children and
youth who are currently waiting in the U.S. foster care system. ACF
has developed a public engagement section of the ALL IN Foster
Adoption Challenge website to ask the public to engage in the ALL IN
Challenge by committing to an activity that supports children/youth or
their caregivers and then sharing a picture or video of themselves
with the ALL IN sign on their social media to let others know they
have committed be ALL IN. ACF asks that people use the hashtag
#ALLINforWaitingKids to show their support for the challenge as well
as share the link to the public engagement page so that people can
learn more. For more information, visit the ALL In Foster Adoption
website.

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Request for information to solicit public input regarding economic
mobility

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Secretary
issued a request for information to solicit public input regarding
economic mobility. This information will be used to inform the
priorities of a federal interagency Council on Economic Mobility
(Council). The Council is interested in feedback that provides insight
to how the Council can promote economic mobility, recovery, and
resilience. The Catholic Charities USA Social Policy team is working
to coordinate a response from the Catholic Charities network. To
assist with this effort, we ask that you complete a brief survey by
COB September 25. Link to brief survey. If you have questions, please
contact Lucreda Cobbs, senior director policy and legislative at
[email protected].

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Learn Spanish at the Esperanza Center, Catholic Charities of
Baltimore, this Fall!

All 10-week autumn classes are online and begin the week of September
28. We will be offering 1A (Beginning), 1B (Beginning with some
Spanish) and 2A (beginner-mid, early conversational). We offer morning
(10a-12p) as well as evening (6:30-8:30p) classes. The cost of the 10
weeks is $150; please note that your registration is considered a
donation that helps support the Educational Services Programs at
Esperanza. A link to the ZOOM class will be sent the week prior to the
class. Registration links for morning classes: Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays. Registration links for evening classes: Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays.

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Sterling Volunteers offering FREE basic background checks to Catholic
Charities agencies

Sterling Volunteers, a valued Catholic Charities USA partner, is
extending a helping hand to our network to help safely mobilize
trusted volunteers around essential services during the COVID-19
pandemic. Sterling Volunteers is offering FREE Basic Background
Checks, along with reduced pricing for MVR's and other screening
packages (click here for full details). This COVID-19 special offering
has been extended through

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December 31, 2020. If interested, CLICK HERE to connect with Sterling
on this offering and any other specific needs.
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Please note, the special pricing is not retroactive nor automatic for
existing customers; please contact SV if you are interested in
utilizing the discounts.

Employment Opportunities

Catholic Charities job opportunities now listed on CCUSA website 

Anyone can view the job opportunities by clicking on the "Careers" tag
on the footer of the CCUSA webpage. To post a job opportunity, one
must be a member and have access to the members' portal in order to
fill out the submission form (click on "Careers" tag on members only
portal homepage). If you have any questions about the new job
opportunities submission form, please contact

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David Werning. Please click
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here to access job opportunities.
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CCUSA Photo Gallery

Did you know that one of the benefits CCUSA provides to member
agencies is access to a professional photo gallery? Visit our Flickr
photo pages to explore our albums and photos. If you would like a
high-resolution version for your agency's use, please
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email CCUSA with photo number.

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