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. 

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

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.

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.

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. 

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. 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.

Early evidence from the evaluation of Uplifting Parents webinar

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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

Parent engagement strategies in a pandemic and beyond webinar