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From	Catholic Charities USA <[email protected]>
Subject	CCUSA Weekly Digest
Date	August 23, 2021 2:30 PM

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Highlights from CCUSA

Have you booked your room at the Sheration San Diego Hotel &
Marina?

Reservation deadline is Wednesday, August 25, 2021; to receive the
discounted rate for the 2021 AG, visit our Hotel and Travel page to
book on line before the August 25th deadline. Enjoy exploring this
city and the surrounding area by extending your stay. The Sheraton
offers complimentary airport shuttle. See the flyer at the bottom of
the Hotel and Travel page about how to take advantage of this service.
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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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Events and Webinars

2Gen series: Centering 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: Aug. 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: Aug. 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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Catholic Climate Covenant invites you to a "Season of Creation
Training: How to Engage Our Church Leaders for Climate Action"

In this live* training you will learn more about the Climate Action
Letter for Catholic Institutions (open to Catholic institutions,
organizations, religious communities to sign,) and you will learn step
by step how you can faithfully and positively engage your bishop and
other leaders to spark bold creation care and climate action. You will
walk away with key skills, simple engagement resources and handouts to
begin using this Season of Creation and beyond. Date: Aug. 31, 2021.
Time: 3 PM ET. Register here.

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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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Employment, COVID-19 and the impact in the migrant community

Immigrants and refugees have been disproportionately impacted by the
coronavirus pandemic. Join us for a webinar to take stock of the
impact of COVID-19 on the employment status of immigrants, refugees,
and asylum-seeking individuals and families, service agencies, and how
they impacted individuals, families, and service agencies are
responding. We will focus our discussion on services and resources
provided to the essential worker/immigrant community during the
pandemic, the challenges faced in providing PPE, quarantine housing
efforts, testing, and vaccination measures, among other services for a
community deemed "essential" to the American food supply
chain. Additionally, we will receive an update
on testing/Quarantine/Vaccination efforts from Catholic
Health Association (CHA). To join us please register in advance
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Date: Sept. 8, 2021. Time: 2 PM EST.

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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Increasing immigrant integration and inclusion through community
partnerships

Immigrant integration and inclusion happens most effectively at the
local level. Community partnerships are an effective method for
non-profit agencies to expand their reach, engage more community
members, and accomplish desired goals on a larger scale. In
particular, immigrant integration is achieved most successfully when
all community members are engaged, have decided together on
objectives, and work together to achieve them. Thus, community
partnerships are a key strategy to increase and promote immigrant
integration and inclusion. This webinar will introduce integration
basics, such as common terminology and characteristics of effective
integration programming. Then, a short description of how data is
integral to successful integration programming will be given. The
presenter will also cover how to acquire this data. Examples of types
of community partnerships for non-profits, such as with city
government, local parishes, volunteers, and other non-profits, will be
explored. The trainer will provide recommendations on characteristics
to look for in a partner, ideas for integration programming for each
type of partnership, and ways to manage a partnership so that it
accomplishes its desired objectives. 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 in 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. Date: Sept. 16, 2021. Time: 2 PM ET. 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: Oct. 6, 2021.
Time: 2 PM EST. Register here.

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Learning and serving together! Binational partnership for immigrant
& refugee services

The number of internally displaced persons and international migrants
is greater today than at any other time in history. While migration
may present a chance to improve life circumstances, it also poses a
series of risks for migrants. To respond to the human, social,
political, and spiritual challenges and opportunities that migration
presents, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago have
engaged in a multi-level collaboration with Loyola University Chicago
and several Jesuit universities of Mexico. This webinar will consist
of three parts:

* Overview of the origin and development of interinstitutional
collaboration. The overview will address the organizational
structure of the partnership and how the collaboration operates
transnationally.
* Presentation of the service/accompaniment, student and
institutional learning, and research components of the
collaboration, which include: student internships, research
projects, grant collaborations, and professional development.
* A discussion of how webinar participants can join in such
collaborations to expand our Catholic calling to "walk
with the poor, the outcasts of the world, those whose dignity
has been violated, in a mission of reconciliation and
justice."

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 in 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. Date: Oct. 7, 2021. Time: 2 PM
ET. 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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Building the donor pipeline: The power and impact of individual donor
relations

From donors giving $10 a year to major donors giving 5 to 6 figure
gifts each year, individual donors bring your mission to life. Join us
for a webinar to learn how to maximize your engagment with individual
donors, bringing them closer to your mission and encouraging ever-more
generous gifts into the future. Following this presentation, the
attendee will be able to: (1.) Understand the impact of individual
donors and their long-term value to your organization; (2.) Understand
the individual donor pipeline concept, how to build the pipeline and
how to move donors through it; (3.) Walk away with an outline of
fundamental steps to start and/or maintain a successful individual
giving program: annual giving, mid-level giving, major gifts,
capital/principal gifts, and planned gifts. Register in advance for
this webinar here.

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Date: Oct. 14, 2021. Time: 1 PM ET.

Unaccompanied children in 2021: Serving immigrant and refugee youth

This webinar will provide details on who unaccompanied children are
and where they come from, factors driving their migration, and the
challenges they face once they arrive in the United States.
Participants will learn more about the recent surge in migrant
children crossing the US-Mexico border and the implications this has
had on their care prior to reunifying with a sponsor or being placed
in long term foster care. We will also consider the impact of the
COVID-19 pandemic on this population and the ways this has affected
the services provided to youth as well as their experience in their
new communities. USCCB and CCC will provide a picture of USCCB's
model of care for unaccompanied migrant children through small-scale
shelters, group homes, and foster care placements. Presenters 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. 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 in 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. Date: Oct. 14,
2021. Time: 2 PM ET. Register here.

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Applying medical ethics frameworks in Catholic Charities

Catholic Charities provides services which are medical or
quasi-medical in nature, such as providing behavioral health services,
dental care, primary care, FQHC, nursing home care, and assistance
with advance care planning documents. Given this, knowledge of secular
bioethics, social work ethics, and the USCCB's Ethical and
Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services is essential
for Catholic Charities professionals. Join this webinar to explore and
apply relevant ethical frameworks to cases encountered in Catholic
Charities. This webinar will be led by Dr. Amy VanDyke, and Rev.
Ragan Shriver. Dr. VanDyke, MSW, LSW, PhD, is Vice President of
Programs at Catholic Social Services of Columbus Ohio. For many years
she served as an ethicist at Catholic and secular hospitals and is a
national and international speaker on ethics. Rev. Ragan Schriver,
PsyD, LAPSW, is the Special Assistant to the President of Catholic
Charities USA for Strategic Integration and Director of the MSSW
program at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, where he serves as
an associate professor. He is the former executive director of
Catholic Charities of East Tennessee. 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. Date: Oct. 18, 2021. Time: 1:30 PM ET. Register here.

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Adapting to change - Keeping your Volunteer Income Tax Assistance
(VITA) program current

The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program is one of the most
impactful poverty reduction programs in the United States. This
program represents the local partnership between the IRS,
community-based nonprofits, and volunteers. VITA helped move over 10
million individuals out of poverty and significantly reduced the
severity of poverty for an additional 17 million. Over the past 50
years, the program has evolved to incorporate teh various changes to
the tax code and integrated technological improvements allowing for a
better consumer experience. Join us for a webinar to share best
practices and updates to the VITA program, particularly over the past
year. During the webinar, we will be highlighting two Catholic
Charities agencies that have developed successful VITA programs during
COVID-19 by adapting to the changes required. Register here.

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Date: Oct. 20, 2021. Time: 2 PM ET.

Engaging the diaconate: How Dallas equips deacons to integrate faith
and service

Permanent deacons in the Roman Catholic Church have the unique
opportunity to be activated, engaged, and unleashed to strengthen the
integration of faith and service for the Church and for its
people. With the intention of empowering deacons to work closely
with their local Catholic Charities office, and in service to each
deacon's specific parish and the greater diocese,
representatives from Catholic Charities Dallas Parish & Community
Relations Office and the Diocese of Dallas Diaconal Ministry and
Formation Office will present how this is being done in the Diocese of
Dallas. Presenters will explore the practical ways in which they
seek to achieve the broader goal of "Catholic Charities fluency
(CCD)" among all levels of Catholic leadership in the diocese as
a primer for reaching fluency levels in the community as a whole. CCD
fluency, defined as knowing what Catholic Charities does, why they do
it, and how to get involved, is the critical next step in integrating
the capacity that deacons have with the needs of their Charities
agency. Their offices have worked together to create a
"Catholic Charities Dallas Diaconate Certification"
program, offering deep dives into the specifics of what, why, and how
to get involved of Catholic Charities service within the diocese. They
intend to present themselves as a case study to promote consideration
of how this model can be improved and adapted to specific
circumstances, with the end goal of increasing knowledge and fluency
of the Catholic Social Teaching principles that motivate our mission
among a much broader community nationally. This webinar's
presenters are Lacy de la Garza, M.Psy., Director of Parish &
Community Relations for Catholic Charities Dallas, and Fr. Emmett
Hall, Director of Diaconal Ministry & Formation for the Diocese of
Dallas. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email
containing information about joining the webinar. Date: Oct. 27, 2021.
Time: 3 PM ET. Register here.

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Leveraging trends and emerging technologies to deliver an improved
client experience

The webinar will show how technology and for-profit sector
partnerships can create creative solutions to long-standing problems.
Our team will breakdown how the use of artificial intelligence allows
organizations to reach clients quickly in a fast pace area of law, as
well as improve onboarding of clients during the intake process. Our
top priority and focus has been 1) driving significant Client
Experience improvements, and 2) Meeting our clients where they are
with the use of creative technology. Together, we brainstormed on the
use of current and emerging trends and technologies to realize these
objectives. Trends and technologies we embraced and are leveraging are
AI-based videos, automated forms with Application-to-Person (A2P)
messaging, smartphone document scanning integrated with back-end case
management system. Date: Oct. 28, 2021. Time: 2 PM ET. 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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Grant Opportunity: CCUSA Nutrition Education AmeriCorps Program

CCUSA is currently looking for additional grantees for the Nutrition
Education AmeriCorps program! The AmeriCorps members in this program
will primarily use the American Heart Association's Healthy For
Life curriculum to teach clients how to improve behaviors regarding
food and nutrition. Members demonstrate cooking techniques and prepare
delicious and healthy food with the help of volunteers, enabling
clients to acquire new skills to prepare more nutritious meals, as
well as provide culturally relevant healthy recipes to clients,
increase their level of comfort with healthy foods, & educate
clients on budgeting and shopping for healthy foods. If your agency is
interested in learning more about this federal grant opportunity,
please reach out to Abby Qualliotine.
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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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