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Catholic Charities | Cherishing the Divine Within All
100 Years
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Impact

10k+
Individuals served by Villa Maria Behavioral Health outpatient programs

Our Mission
& Vision

How do we measure our success?

We quantify the outcome of our efforts by the number of lives we touch and the richness of quality added to those lives. We open our doors and our hearts to every woman, man, and child that comes to us with an immediate need, without regard to their circumstances.

Our Mission & Vision

We serve individuals of every faith, perspective, background and ethnicity

  • 2,000+ Talented Employees
  • 8,000+ Dedicated Volunteers
  • 80+ Vital Programs

Marvelous individuals of all faiths, ages and ethnicities, come together to improve the lives of over 160,000 individuals and families. We prepare and serve over 500,000 meals a year to people who depend on us for a daily hot meal.

Every day, at more than 80 programs at 200 locations throughout Maryland, Catholic Charities of Baltimore is there to help. Why do we do this—and much more? It’s because we really are inspired by the Gospel mandates to love, serve and teach, work for justice and to improve the lives of Marylanders in need. That is our Mission and we live it.

The
Outcome

Read more inspiring stories and encouraging outcomes from the countless lives changed through our initiatives.

Download 2023 Annual Report

Supporting Children and Families

  • 804 Total children served at Head Start

  • 768 Conflicts meditated by Safe Streets that had potential to result in a shooting

Healing Trauma and Addiction

  • 10k+ Individuals served by Villa Maria Behavioral Health outpatient programs, including clinics and school partnerships

  • 1.1k+ Individuals with substance use disorders treated

Welcoming New Neighbors

  • 3.5k+ Health clinic visits at Esperanza Center

  • 191 Unaccompanied minors reunified with family or sponsors

  • 1.5k+ Number of active cases managed by Immigration Legal Services

Achieving Indpendence

  • 219 Adults with intellectual disabilities supported in our residential and day programs

  • 291 Individuals and families who obtained permanent housing

  • 1.8k+ Individuals who recieved case management support

  • 187 Individuals and families had evictions prevented

  • 494k+ Number of meals served

Empowering Careers

  • 224 Total number of individuals who found work through our workforce development programs

  • 322 Number of people who received workforce development training

  • 69 Number of industry certifications achieved by workforce development clients

Aging with Dignity

  • 2.2k+ Seniors secured affordable housing

  • 144 Seniors received supportive services to help them age in place

  • 18.9k+ Total service coordinator-resident interactions

  • $642k Total senior resident cost savings

Featured Stories

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  • Healing Trauma & Addiction

    St. Vincent’s Villa

    When Rev. Dr. Jalene Chase was 5 years old, she made a friend who often seemed sad. Eventually, the friend told Jalene a man in her household was hurting her. Jalene told her own mother, who tried unsuccessfully to intervene. When her friend was killed in an accident on her way home from school, Jalene believed the girl had ridden her bike into traffic.

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    Jonaya came to stay with us for respite care, just for a few months. Well, it’s been six and a half years.
    — Jalene
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  • Aging with Dignity

    St. Elizabeth’s Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

    Christine has always admired her caring and indomitable mother. Bertha Paul rose to a management position at Montgomery Ward’s, and then ran a daycare business out of her home. “My mother is a very loving person, and she threw everything she had into taking care of other people’s children after raising six of her own,” she said.

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    My mom has really only socialized 
with our big extended family, but now she has friends. And her being in St. Elizabeth’s allows me to sleep at night.
    — Christine
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  • Achieving Independence

    Sarah’s House

    Andrew doesn’t want his children ever to experience the financial insecurity and homelessness that he has endured for more than half of his life. With parents who were unable to care for him, he was “in foster care at age four,” he said, “arrested at 19, and released with nowhere to go, bouncing back and forth from place to place, staying outside.”

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    I have good people in my corner who helped us out during the pandemic. But by the beginning of 2021, I was going broke paying for a hotel room, and it got to be too much. I started looking around for programs that could help us and found Sarah’s House.
    — Andrew
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  • Empowering Careers

    St. Edward’s Workforce Development Center

    When Derek got his one-year certificate at Vehicles for Change, it was the longest he’d ever worked at a job. “I get to work early every day,” he said. “Working on cars for me brings a certain joy of fulfillment that I can’t explain, and add to that, I know we’re doing something for the greater good by donating cars to needy families, helping them get out of their situation too.”

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    Working on cars for me brings a certain joy of fulfillment that I can’t explain, and add to that, I know we’re doing something for the greater good by donating cars to needy families, helping them get out of their situation too.
    — Derek
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  • Welcoming New Neighbors

    Esperanza Center

    In 2012, 16-year-old Williams was just one of tens of thousands of children from Central America crossing the southern border into the U.S. alone. When he was apprehended in Texas upon arrival, Williams had already endured a terrifying journey and still faced an uncertain future. In leaving El Salvador, he had simply been running for his life.

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    The people at Esperanza, I never felt alone when I was working with them. They see everyone as a person, not a case. They really care. The path I took, and making it this far. It shows me that I can do things too. It inspires me to do something with my life.
    — Williams
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  • Supporting Children & Families

    Carroll County Head Start

    When their grandson, Oliver, was born, Susan and Marlin Felmey were there to help. “It’s so expensive to live in Carroll County, it’s hard to make ends meet,” they said. So their empty nest was full again. When Oliver was 18 months old, their daughter enrolled Oliver in Head Start, and “our only complaint is that it doesn’t go to 12th grade,” Marlin said. “We have loved every minute.”

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    I was working when my children were small, and the ideas about raising children have changed so dramatically since our day.
    — Marlin
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