Catholic Charities USA



Dear Parish Social Minister,

Catholic
Charities USA's Parish Social Ministry Leadership Team and some
outstanding collaborators
are busy preparing a three-hour
institute on PSM at CCUSA's upcoming Annual Gathering in
Albuquerque from September 25-27.

A complete
description of this institute, entitled, "Building
Up Parish Ministry: Overcoming the Poverty of Imagination", is
found
at this link by scrolling down to item "6B". Scroll down
even further to
register!

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An exciting new
addition to the program will be the formal introduction of Plan.
Prepare. Protect., a disasters operations toolkit for
parishes developed by CCUSA with the support of local agencies and a
partnership with the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation.  

Here are other items of note:

1) On October 21 - 22, CCUSA will coordinate a
visit for up to twelve agency staff to learn about a parish-based
eldercare program that support seniors and their
families, offered by Catholic Housing and Community Services
(Philadelphia). Limited funding is available to support
staff participation. If interested,
please contact Jane Stenson
(703-236-6237).
[email protected]

2)
For 25 years the Catholic Labor Network
has brought together Catholic labor union activists and Catholic
clergy,
religious and lay Catholics inspired by Catholic Social Teaching (CST)
about
labor, work, and economic justice. Now CCHD has awarded the Network a
national
strategic grant to foster cooperation between labor and Church
organizations to
promote justice for workers and immigrants.
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In
every diocese in the United States, workers have organized in unions
and
workers' centers to pursue systemic change and would welcome
solidarity from
the Church. This offers a great hands-on learning activity for the
faithful!
The Catholic Labor Network is ready to partner with you in presenting
a short
program on CST and social justice, followed by an encounter with
workers and
worker organizations in your community. This could be a short event of
a few
hours or a longer retreat. Interested? Contact Clayton Sinyai at
[email protected] - and if
you are in Salt Lake City for the 2019 Social Action Summer Institute,
don't
miss the Catholic Labor Network workshop!

3) If you are
responsible for PSM at a Catholic Charities agency, please complete
the PSM Data Survey 2019 at this link.
Data gathered from this survey can assist with advocacy efforts, grant
requests,
and resource allocation, and can quantify the benefits to Catholic
Charities
agencies when they commit to parish engagement. This survey's
data will be
unpacked at the three-hour PSM institute at the Annual Gathering.
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4) The Catholic
Climate Covenant is offering pre-registration for its annual Feast of
Saint
Francis program entitled "We
Are All Connected: Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor." This
program will
complement and accompany the Vatican Synod, "
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Amazonia:
New Paths for the Church and for an Integral
Ecology." It's a
wonderful opportunity for Catholics to explore integral ecology,
environmental
and climate justice, and the rights of indigenous communities.
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Click here to
pre-register.
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5) Are you
engaged in a social
enterprise connected with parish social ministry? If so, please
contact Steve Bogus,
CCUSA's VP for Social Enterprise Initiatives. CCUSA is seeking
to identify such
individuals to network, brainstorm, surface best practices, and
possibly host a
webinar.
[email protected]

6) All of CCUSA's parish social ministry
resources -
foundational documents, webinars and newsletters, and CCUSA's
PSM Leadership
Team contact info - are freely and
publicly available online.
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7) If you have
an inspiring or
informative story about the work of Catholic Charities, please
submit it to the CCUSA Storybank.
These stories are used to promote the work of Catholic Charities
through the
media. Contributing agencies will be credited for approved stories.
Email David Werning with
questions. 
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[email protected]

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Peace,

Scott Hurd

Vice President, Leadership Development and Catholic Identity

 

 

 

 




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