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Catholic Charities USA


 
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Highlights from CCUSA

Early-bird deadline to register for the 2021 AG has been extended to
August 9!

Don't miss the chance to join your colleagues from the Catholic
Charities national network. Visit 2021 Annual Gathering to
register before August 9, 2021, to receive the early-bird member
pricing. The Annual Gathering brings us together to celebrate our
commitment to transform the lives of people and communities we serve
and to grow CCUSa's national, vibrant and innovative ministry.
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The Laudato Si' Action Platform

Pope Francis is challenging Catholic communities and organizations
across the world - including Catholic Charities agencies - to
gradually work toward "total sustainability" in our common call to
care for creation. This invitation is centered upon a Laudato
Si' Action Platform through which Catholic organizations
publicly commit to a seven-year journey of ecological conversion. The
action platform is framed across seven Laudato Si' goals which
reflect Catholic Social Teaching and provide "footsteps"
in areas such as education, spirituality, the adoption of sustainable
practices, community engagement, and a commitment to address poverty.
Registration to commit to this process has now opened and will
conclude on October 4, the Feast of Saint Francis. Read more
here. You may also reach out to Scott Hurd, Vice President for
Leadership Development and Catholic Identity at CCUSA.
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CCUSA Social Policy team interested in feedback, concerns about U.S.
Department of Labor's proposed rule regarding minimum wage

The U.S. Department of Labor issued a proposed rule regarding
increasing the minimum wage for federal contracts. The department is
soliciting feedback about the proposal to raise the hourly minimum
wage to $15 to be paid by contractors to workers performing work on or
in connection with covered federal contracts, beginning January 30,
2022; and beginning January 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, an
amount determined by the Secretary of Labor. The CCUSA Social Policy
team is interested in hearing your concerns, feedback. 

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Events and Webinars

Introduction to Datastory: Using location intelligence to assist in
decision making

Location intelligence describes the capacity to organize and
understand the relationship of data in a geographic context. CCUSA
member agencies use location intelligence regularly in making
strategic and practical decisions such as the location of a real
estate project or the location of a food distribution site. This
webinar will introduce the network to Datastory and its various
location intelligence offerings that assist you in making strategic
and practical decisions. The webinar will emphasize and demonstrate
the use of location intelligence in the context of affordable housing
and food/nutrition services. Date: Aug. 4, 2021. Time: 2 PM EST.
Register here.

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Outreach webinar from Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

CBPP is hosting a webinar on local strategies for Child Tax Credit
outreach on
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Tuesday, August 3, 2-3:30 PM ET. Local communities, including city
governments, will share how they are conducting outreach and providing
hands-on assistance to help ensure all eligible children receive the
Child Tax Credit. We'll also explore approaches to address
funding and capacity challenges for conducting outreach and resources
to support Child Tax Credit outreach efforts.

CCUSA Immigration and Refugees Services CofP meeting - 2020
CCUSA/CLINIC Annual Survey results

Please join us for the CCUSA Immigration and Refugee Services CoP
meeting to receive a policy update from CCUSA, MRS/USCCB, and CLINIC.
Additionally, during this meeting, we will provide an overview of the
2020 CCUSA/CLINIC Annual Survey Immigration and Refugee Services
Results, including summary statistics and performance measures
highlighting the impactful work completed across Immigration and
Refugee Services programs throughout the Catholic Charities network.
We will include the results for the Catholic Legal Immigration Network
(CLINIC)/CCUSA joint survey on immigration legal
services. Register in advance for this meeting here

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Date: August 11, 2021. Time: 3 PM EST.

Changing hearts and minds: JustFaith as a tool for expanding social
mission

For over 20 years, JustFaith Ministries has been crafting small group
formation programs emphasizing the linkage between faith and
compassion/justice. Join us for a conversation with Jack Jezreel, the
founder and originator, about how the tools of JustFaith might benefit
your work. Catholic Charities agencies have used JustFaith programs
for staff formation or with parish social ministries. Current
JustFaith programs focus on discipleship, Catholic Social Teaching,
faith and poverty, racial justice, eco-justice, youth, advocacy,
spirituality, food insecurity, migration, and peace and non-violence.
Date: Aug. 18, 2021. Time: 3 PM ET. Register here. After registering
you will receive a confirmation email containing information about
joining the webinar.

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2Gen series: Our future work in racial equity webinar

The loss and lessons of the last year have delivered a new
understanding of the inequities and system failures that block people
from reaching their full potential. Our recent experiences and the
recognition of the historical work to address inequity have opened
hearts and helped us see new possibilities. We have in front of us a
legacy moment to improve our professional and organizational practices
for delivering well-being services and rethink how our systems and
communities function. Join this webinar to gather ideas and resources
to help your organization and your community navigate this moment to
create just, equitable, and thriving environments. Date: August 24,
2021. Time: 2 PM EST. Register here.

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Trauma-informed care and trauma-informed social action in a parish
context

Join Catholic Charities of Santa Clara to learn the mind body
connection, principles of Polyvagal theory (an explanation of how we
interpret our environment and respond to it), the connection between
childhood trauma and adult mental health and racial disparities in
accessing trauma treatment and how this theory shapes advocacy
efforts. Participants will walk away with a working knowledge of what
research-based treatment modalities they can implement within the
context of parish life and how to use these modalities to form and
train new community leaders to use their own authentic voice in
advocacy work in a way that is safe and sustainable. Learning
Objectives:

* Understand how the Mind Body approach restores and improves
personal and inter-relational functionality for those suffering
trauma
* Apply basic principles of a trauma-informed approach for working
in parishes in high-poverty and high-crime areas, large
population of immigrants, and unstable housing.
* Use trauma-informed techniques in leadership development for
volunteers, community leaders and promotoras.
* Apply trauma-informed practice to current efforts of
community-based care and advocacy work

NOTE: 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. After
registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the webinar. Register here.

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Date: August 25, 2021. Time: 3 PM EST.

West Coast disaster recovery and resiliency during a pandemic

The West Coast is subject to wildfires, earthquakes, floods and
mudslides. In 2020 alone, nearly 10,000 wildfires burned over 4
million acres that damaged or destroyed over 10,000 homes and resulted
in 33 fatalities. Smoke-filled summers and recovering from large
disasters are becoming the new normal for the West Coast. COVID-19
adds even more challenges to preparedness and recovery efforts. This
webinar will focus on the prioritization of disaster survivor cases,
data collection to inform funding needs, construction analysis as it
relates to unmet needs, and building preparedness activities into
recovery plans. Date: Aug. 26, 2021. Time: 1 PM EST. Register here.
NOTE: 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. After
registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the webinar.

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To boldly go: Harnessing the power of pop culture for use in
trauma-informed care

This webinar will specifically explore how pop culture can be very
helpful in trauma-informed care, particularly in trauma-focused
therapy with children and teens. By using pop culture as a tool,
clinicians can provide engaging, informative treatment that teaches
psychoeducation about trauma types, symptoms, and reminders,
demonstrates and reinforces positive, healthy coping strategies, and
promotes wellness, resiliency, and healing among clients. Even outside
of clinical work, these same concepts can be applied to organizational
development; supervisors and agency leaders can use pop culture in
professional development, staff wellness activities, and other
self-care initiatives to connect with staff and address relevant,
meaningful topics in an approachable and appealing format. Learning
objectives:

1. Recognize how pop culture explores trauma symptoms and
reactions.
2. Identify ways to harness pop culture as a tool when working
with trauma survivors
3. Describe how pop culture can be used to promote wellness and
resiliency among clients and in the workplace.

NOTE: 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. Date: Sept. 8,
2021. Time; 2 PM EST. Register here. After registering, you will
receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the
webinar.

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Financial wellness at work: Supporting low wage workers with financial
stability services

Learn about the experiences of Catholic Charities, Portland, Oregon,
which created an LLC to collaborate with employers to help workers
attain financial wellness for themselves and their families. This
partnership provides educational resources, workshops, financial
coaching, and strategies for asset creation and debt reduction. This
webinar will also introduce participants to the FINRA
Foundation/United Way Financial Wellness at Work program, which helps
community-based nonprofits design and deliver workplace financial
wellness services for lower-income employees. Hear how the FINRA
Foundation supports financial wellness practitioners at
community-based nonprofit organizations, and how nonprofit leaders
have collaborated with employers to develop effective and sustainable
workplace financial wellness solutions. Find out about upcoming
training opportunities to help bring workplace financial wellness
programs to your community. Date: Sept. 9, 2021. Time: 2 PM EST.
Register here. 

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Designing a Database for a Catholic Social Teaching-Based Case
Management Model

This workshop introduces participants to the use of a logic model to
support the design of a client centered database for a case management
program. The model of case management used at CCCS is both malleable
and adaptable, as is characteristic of this form of service delivery.
Client needs, willingness to engage in services and access to
resources vary to a great extent at the individual level and this lack
of structure to the program model posed significant challenges to the
database design team. The presentation will include a discussion of
the logic model development process, the articulation of the process
of care (i.e.: the CCCS Case Management Model), the key elements of
database design, the conflicts that emerged along the way and the end
product, which has been in use since September 2020. This presentation
is intended to highlight the complexity involved in moving somewhat
intangible and ambiguous service models - as are often present
within many human service programs and may be even more pronounced
among Catholic Social Teaching based models - into databases
that necessitate rules and order and structure. Date: October 6, 2021.
Time: 2 PM EST. Register here.

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The Service at the Speed of Light: The New Non-Profit Normal webinar

This year has been one of the most challenging faced by non-profits,
and the needs are incredible. By January 2021, American renters
already owed $34B in back rent and growing! Agencies must work closely
with community and civic leaders to broaden impact and improve
effectiveness by quickly expanding service capacity through creative
technology use allowing millions of dollars of assistance in a day. Is
your agency ready to implement a program providing over $60M in
financial assistance in 3 months? Does your agency understand impact
on hiring, call volume, compliance, and finance? These are all
challenges Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston
confronted when they received a contract to provide CARES funding to
more than 50,000 families in 3 months. This presentation will provide
you with the insights gained through their experience. After this
workshop, the answer to any of the questions listed above will be,
"Absolutely, we can!" It is the new non-profit normal. It
is service at the speed of light! Date: Oct. 12, 2021. Time: 2 PM EST.
Register here. 

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Grant Opportunities and Resources

Grant Opportunity: CCUSA Financial Education AmeriCorps Program

CCUSA is currently looking for additional grantees for the Financial
Education AmeriCorps program! The AmeriCorps members in this program
will primarily use the FDIC Money Smart curriculum to teach clients
how to enhance their financial skills and create positive banking
relationships. AmeriCorps members can also provide other
asset-development activities, including tax preparation, financial
counseling, IDA enrollment, and much more. This program has a goal to
help clients improve their financial literacy and navigate financial
decisions more efficiently. If your agency is interested in learning
more about this federal grant opportunity, please reach out
to Abby Qualliotine.
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Emergency rental assistance, material to share

The eviction moratorium expired July 31, 2021. The administration has
been pushing to raise awareness about the availability of emergency
rental assistance to tenants and landlords. The Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau recently announced a new "rental assistance
finder" tool that is now live, and the CFPB is seeking
assistance with distribution across the country. The following
resources provide information regarding the call to action and a link
to the newly released CFPB too

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l. Links to available resources: (1.) CFPB - Consumer Rental
Assistance Finder Tool; (2.) Overview: Emergency Rental
Assistance Call to Action; (3.) Toolkit: Emergency Rental
Assistance.

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Outreach resources from Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

CBPP has also developed resources that organizations can use to
support Child Tax Credit outreach efforts including FAQs, guides to
the IRS Non-filer form and Child Tax Credit Update Portal, an outreach
toolkit with messaging, outreach materials, social media posts, and
templates (press release, call and text scripts, newsletter, radio
psa, and media pitch), and a separate toolkit that highlights
immigrant eligibility for the Child Tax Credit and EIPs that is
translated into five languages. These resources are available through
CBPP's Get it Back campaign, which has promoted refundable tax
credits and free tax filing assistance for more than 30 years.
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Employment Opportunities

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 David Werning.
Please click 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 email CCUSA with photo number.
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