FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: June 15, 2017 CONTACT: Mary Kuhn, Communication Director mkuhn@cceb.org 510-469-1315 Oakland, California Catholic Charities of the East Bay Achieves National Accreditation Achievement caps effort that began in April 2015 Catholic...
By Eric L. Steckel In the wake of the tragic events in Paris on November 13, 2015, Catholic Charities of the East Bay urges the community to stand in solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of Syrians and others displaced by the violence in their homeland. While...
By Jason Sullivan-Halpern As the volunteer coordinator at Catholic Charities of the East Bay, I have seen our volunteers do some pretty extraordinary things to help the community. You don’t have to look any farther than our Refugee Resettlement and Employment Program...
By Eric L. Steckel As I mingled with the students in the parish hall of Saint Ignatius Church, in Antioch, I was reminded of a recurring dream most of us have. It was the one where you show up for the final exam and you realize you are dreadfully unprepared. That one...
By Raul Zavaleta The Hayward City Hall was packed. You could overhear people asking questions in different languages as you made your way around the room to pick up the citizenship application. Volunteers at this citizenship workshop manned stations on the first and...
By Eric L. Steckel Last night, before a raucous crowd, Oakland City Council Member Noel Gallo, District 5, gave an impassioned plea in support of some of the most vulnerable in our society. Council member Gallo proposed an amendment to the city’s biennial budget...