Your generosity helps others find hope. In giving to the 2024 Appeal, your gift helps support the following programs and services:

Catholic Charities

  • Basic Needs: Food, clothing, homelessness prevention and re-housing, and dental care
  • Care Coordination Services: Community Health Worker and Health Home Care Management
  • Counseling: family, group and individual counseling for children, teenagers and adults
  • Mental Health: mental health treatment for children in Niagara County and for children and adults in Erie County
  • Domestic Violence Services: For victims and their families, and for offenders
  • Family & Parent Resources: court-ordered programs, multisystemic therapy, The Incredible Years parenting program, preventive services, WIC nutrition program
  • Immigration & Refugee Assistance
  • Parish Outreach & Advocacy: Nine food pantries and outreach centers, Guild for the Blind, Ladies of Charity outreach and thrift store, Telephone Assurance Program
  • Older Adult Services: Phone/visitation programs for socially isolated adults, Foster Grandparent Program, case management and service coordination
  • School Based Services: In-School Social Work Program, Closing the Gap
  • Workforce and Education Services: Education, job readiness, high school equivalency preparation and classes for youth and adults in Niagara and Erie Counties

Fund for the Faith

  • Campus Ministry
  • Catholic Education
  • Communications
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Deaf Ministry
  • Diocesan Counseling Center
  • Diocesan & Parish Spiritual Renewal
  • Seminarian Training: Formation of Priests, Deacons, and Lay Ecclesial Candidates.
  • Hospital Chaplaincy
  • Marriage Preparation
  • Pro-Life Office
  • Road to Renewal
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