First Afghan families gain asylum status
Two families from Afghanistan are the first to gain asylum status through the work of our Immigration Legal Services team. Asylum status assures their right to remain in the United States.
We want to share their stories but cannot share their names because of the danger still posed by the Taliban to them and their families still in Afghanistan.
Family A’s father converted to Christianity about 15 years ago and later became a pastor. Because of his religion, and the fact that […]
Amy’s available to meet with your group
Amy Nace DeGonda, assistant director of Bakhita Empowerment Initiative, is available to meet with your social, church, or professional group–or just a handful of you and your friends–to dispel the myths surrounding human trafficking and give you a better understanding of what trafficking is and how you can affect it.
Email Amy at anacedegonda@archlou.org.
Mass honors veterans laid to rest by CCL
Please join us for a mass honoring our fallen veterans, especially those laid to rest this year by our Indigent Burial program.
Saturday, May 28 at noon
Hoy Family Parish
Employee profile: Amir Hussein
This column will appear in The Record this week.
My family knows how to move. We relocated from Somalia to Kenya in 1999 and, after five years in a refugee camp, from Kenya to the United States in 2004. You would think that would be enough moving for one family. But in 2006 we moved again from Tennessee to Kentucky just so we could carry on our heritage of farming.
Sure, there is plenty […]
Potluck clean-up
This week’s community cleanup on Fourth Street was a bust because of weather, but participants did cleanup a potluck dinner! Who says you have to work for your supper?
The community cleanup was (and again will be) sponsored by Catholic Charities (thanks, Madison Brooks!), Churchill Downs, and Holy Name Catholic Church.
The Woman’s Club of Louisville awards gifts to CCL, SVC
Many thanks to The Woman’s Club of Louisville for their $1,000 gifts to Catholic Charities of Louisville and to Sister Visitor Center. Can you find Ellen Hauber and Sister Paris Slapikas in this photo?.
New views of the new Catholic Charities Center
We have new views of the new center! We’re reviewing bids from construction companies now and should have a signed contract soon.
It’s that time of year again
Hello Catholic Charities Staff! It is evaluation time again!
Our evaluation program is based on the 360-degree model, consisting of an employee self-evaluation, peer/supervisor evaluations (optional), and the formal evaluation completed by the supervisor. It is designed to provide for a well-rounded critique of performance as well as promote discussion of employee’s strengths, address any areas in need of improvement, and establish working goals to be evaluated during the next evaluation period.
All Staff are to complete their individual […]
SVC helps man from tragedy to triumph
It was still cold when Emily McCue met a young man just two days out of prison. He had been put on a bus to Louisville even though he wasn’t from Kentucky and had never been to the city before. When he arrived downtown at 2 a.m. he had only the clothes he had worn into prison. He was cold, he was hungry, and he […]