Subject: CCUSA Weekly Digest

From	Catholic Charities USA <[email protected]>
Subject	CCUSA Weekly Digest
Date	September 13, 2021 2:31 PM

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Highlights from CCUSA

2020 CCUSA annual survey children, youth, and family services results
webinar

Join us for a webinar focusing on the 2020 CCUSA Annual Survey
Children, Youth, and Family Services Results. This presentation
includes an overview of summary statistics and performance measures to
highlight the impactful work completed across Children, Youth, and
Family programs throughout the Catholic Charities network last year.
In addition, time will be allotted for a Q&A session and general
feedback/suggestions regarding Children, Youth, and Family Services
data collection. Date: Sept. 30, 2021. Time: 2 PM EST. Register in
advance for this webinar here.

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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
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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

Resources to Fight a Housing Insecurity Crisis: A Conversation with
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau webinar

You are invited to a conversation with the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau (CFPB) to focus on resources and protections
available to help renters, mortgage borrowers, and landlords to
forestall a growing housing crisis. Join our presenters to discuss
current challenges, the CFPB's housing resource website
(consumerfinance.gov/housing), and their new emergency rental
assistance lookup tool (consumerfinance.gov/renthelp ). Date: Sept.
15, 2021. Time: 12:30 PM EST. Register in advance for this webinar
here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email
containing information about joining the webinar.

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Reimagining strategies for community mental health & the power of
reportable self-care

Our existing mental health crisis is becoming a pandemic. COVID-19 and
its attendant responses are leading to extensive health, social and
economic challenges, with effects on poverty. This has brought to
light the urgent need for a reimagined mental health strategy. In this
session, Dr. Deryk Van Brunt from UC Berkeley will explore the mental
health landscape, the unfolding impact of COVID-19 on long-term mental
illness, the burden on the provider shortage and access to care
stressors, and will present a case study on a population-based
approach that is being used to improve mental health and emotional
well-being in one at-risk community. Date: Sept. 15, 2021. Time: 3 PM
ET. 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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Expanding your program potential with AmeriCorps

Join us to learn how Catholic Charities of Central and Northern
Missouri, Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte, and Catholic
Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington are utilizing AmeriCorps to
maximize their potential to expand services in their communities.
During this panel discussion, we will highlight the different
AmeriCorps programs offered through CCUSA, as well as best practices
in capacity building and project sustainability through AmeriCorps
programs.

1. Discover the impact of AmeriCorps Programs
2. Distinguish which AmeriCorps Programs best fits your
agency's needs
3. Evaluate the benefits for engaging AmeriCorps members

Please join our webinar on Tuesday, October 5th at 2:00 pm EST,
register here. If you have any questions or would like any additional
information, please feel free to reach out to Abby Qualliotine.

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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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Early evidence from the evaluation of Uplifting Parents webinar

Join us as Catholic Social Services Rapid City and Notre Dame's
Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) share early
evidence from the ongoing randomized evaluation of the Uplifting
Parents program, a coalition-based comprehensive support program for
single parents pursuing a college degree. Early results show promising
evidence of large effect size for persistence in two- and four-year
degree programs. 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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Identifying unresolved reproductive grief and facilitating the healing
process webinar

Studies indicate that individuals experiencing reproductive loss are
at greater risk for complicated grief, relationship problems, and
substance abuse. Yet, social service professionals often lack the
training to confidently enquire into a client's reproductive
history and offer appropriate support. This webinar explores how to
help this vulnerable population. Date: Oct. 19, 2021. Time: 2 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.

United in Mission - Leading self and others through Catholic
culture webinar

An organization can have many good leaders (managers, directors, even
key volunteers), but without a foundation in understanding oneself
from a Catholic perspective, something will be missing that enhances
culture and mission. This webinar will present the United in Mission
initiative of Catholic Charities of Eastern Oklahoma, consider how its
framework can be applied within other agencies, and explore its
components: Leading the Spiritual Self; Leading the Outer Self; and
Leading Others. Join us to cover the following components. The
presenter is Deacon David Hamel, Chief of Mission Integration for
Catholic Charities of Eastern Oklahoma. Date: Oct. 25, 2021.
Time: 3:30 PM EST. Register in advance for this webinar here.

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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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Parent engagement strategies in a pandemic and beyond webinar

Join us and learn how elevating parent-voice and promoting civic
engagement can build resilience! This webinar will explore the
readiness of your agency to partner with parents and brainstorm
training options necessary for staff and parents to advance
leadership. By the end of the session, participants will know about
the five commitments essential to promote strong parent engagement and
equal and equitable partnerships. Date: Nov. 3, 2021. Time: 2 PM ET.
Register here.

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The theology of the Good Samaritan: Putting Fratelli tutti into action
webinar

This webinar will explore Pope Francis' new encyclical, Fratelli
tutti, and its invitation to renew our commitment to caring for our
neighbors and global society through actions of justice, solidarity,
and dignity. It will incorporate participants' personal experiences to
embrace key topics at the center of the encyclical and the Catholic
Social Teaching tradition. Particular focus will be given to the
encyclical's meditationi on the parable of the Good Samaritan. The
webinar will incorporate the methodology of see, judge, and act to
discern the "signs of the times" in the service of solidarity, the
promotion of justice, and pursuit of the common good. Participants
will appreciate their vocation as missionary disciples by responding
to community needs and questioning those structures that inhibit human
development. Presenter: Mr. Yohan Garcia, Catholic Social Teaching
coordinator for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops'
Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development. Date: Nov. 11,
2021. Time: 3 PM EST. Register in advance for this webinar here.

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Grant Opportunities and Resources

Register for the Catholic Social Workers National Association's 2021
Annual Conference, "Trusting God in Family Life" - Nov. 11-13, 2021

CSWNA's primary purposes are to offer Catholic clinicians ongoing
education that integrates research and proven clinical intervention
techniques with relevant faith concepts - our version of the Catholic
Intellectual Tradition at the intersection of faith and reason. We
work to encourage clinicians in their faith, enhance cultural
competencies and build networks of like-minded professionals. For more
details about the conference and to register, click here. For
nomination form and requirements for the Catholic Social Worker of the
Year, click
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here.

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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 Nick Paige. 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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