Critical Family Needs
Provided over 775 families with emergency food, housing and financial assistance.

Counseling

• School Counselors served over 350 families in
  17 Catholic Schools.
• Counselors helped over 200 families work through problems.
• Counselors helped 100 substance abusers in
  one-on-one sessions.
• Provided housing counseling and workshops to 300
  low-income families.

Youth and Senior Programs

• Combated community violence by mentoring 75
  incarcerated youth.
• Conducted weekly life-skills presentations to over 350 incarcerated youth.
• Guided 25 emancipated foster youth in their
  transition to adulthood.
• Housed 5 emancipated foster youth in transitional housing.
• Served over 800 Southeast Asian seniors, including 240 frail and isolated seniors.

Immigration and Refugee Services and Programs

• Provided legal services to over 550 clients.
• Provided consultation and workshops for over 2,500 clients.
• Provided counsel to 55 women who were victims of
  domestic violence.
• Reunited 35 refugee families.
• Conducted Marriage and Family Strengthening workshops for 170 refugees.
• Provided Employment and Training services to 125 refugees.
• Provided childcare job-training education to 120 limited-English speaking students.
• Taught parenting and adult literacy classes to 50 limited-English speaking families.

Case Management

• 120 men and women with HIV/AIDS received
  case management.
• Provided intensive case management to 12 families in Child Protective Services system.
• Provided relief services to 221 Hurricane Katrina families.

Projects

• Parish and community groups adopted 55 families.
• Distributed Christmas toys to 521 families and approximately 1,000 children.
• Distributed over 2,000 Christmas turkeys to families in need.
• Helped 178 low-income families prepare their taxes, resulting in over $190,000 in refunds.