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Last Thursday, I was happy to participate in Catholic Charities annual Spring Celebration. Unlike other years, when we were able to gather at the John F. Kennedy Library, the Spring Celebration was held online this year and was very much focused on Catholic Charities robust response to the crisis of food insecurity in our community. The video presentation featured remarks by Catholic Charities President and CEO Kevin MacKenzie, as well as the inspiring testimony of a Catholic Charities volun
Volunteers at Freeman Coliseum want to help, not be pawns in Gov. Greg Abbott’s partisan game Posted By James Dobbins on Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:40 AM Instagram / justincpress For years, Gloria Gutierrez worked with children as a Dallas elementary school principal. Now, the 73-year-old retiree is working with kids again, spurred on by the heartbreaking, months-long journey unaccompanied minor asylum seekers must endure to reach South Texas. She wanted to help, so she’s now among the volunteers assisting with some 2,000 teenage boys housed at a makeshift federal shelter at Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio. Late last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reached a 60-day lease with Bexar County to house unaccompanied minors there as it became overwhelmed by a surge in border crossings.
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Mother Teresa Haven preliminary renderings. Courtesy of Catholic Charities
SPOKANE, Wash. Last Wednesday, Catholic Charities announced that it will be moving forward with two new permanent, affordable, supportive housing projects for low-income families and vulnerable individuals as part of its push to solve homelessness in Eastern Washington.
One complex, Mother Teresa Haven, will be a 48-unit project in Spokane that will serve low-income families, and the other, Pasco Haven will be a 60-unit project in Pasco that will provide counseling, case management and healthcare to vulnerable residents.
Mother Teresa Haven will be adjacent to Catholic Charities Sister’s Haven, a family affordable housing community, at the Holy Names Campus. The monthly rent for families will average $245 and residents will get access to on-site services including counseling, case management, healthcare, recreational act
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Governor Abbott speaks to media in front of the Freeman Coliseum where unaccompanied minors are being held about conditions inside and anonymous allegations of abuse.Jessica Phelps, Staff photographer / San Antonio Express-News
Two migrant boys at the Freeman Coliseum turned 18 this week. They celebrated their birthdays and release from the temporary shelter Thursday with pizza.
No longer considered unaccompanied minors, they’ll be united with relatives to pursue their asylum cases. As hard as they’ll try, they might ultimately lose.
One from El Salvador and the other from Guatemala, the young men were placed under the temporary supervision of Catholic Charities, the Archdiocese of San Antonio’s charitable arm that covered their airline tickets and hotel rooms.