Supporting Children & Families

Programs

• Adoption Services

  Catholic Charities of Baltimore provides lifelong adoption services to prospective adoptive parents, adoptees, and birthparents.

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• Anna’s House

  Anna's House provides four transitional living spaces to the broad array of homeless services it provides today including emergency shelter, transitional housing for families fleeing domestic violence, community supportive housing and rapid re-housing. Anna’s House provides supportive services where each woman begins to take charge of her life and recognizes her own capabilities and self-worth. Our goal is to provide personalized assistance and encouragement to each…

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• Baltimore Child & Adolescent Response System (BCARS)

  We provide comprehensive community-based services for children in mental health crisis. BCARS provides brief and intensive community-based services for children in psychiatric crisis to divert or shorten in-patient hospitalization and to link clients to community providers that will serve them for ongoing care.

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• Carroll County Head Start

  Carroll County Head Start and Early Head Start is MSDE Accredited. We are a federally funded program for prenatal through pre-school children from low-income families. We are focused on providing children with experiences that help them grow mentally, emotionally, socially and physically and are geared to provide families with resources that make them strong, independent and successful.

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• Early Childhood Mental Health Screening

  This program provides behavioral consultation, mental health referral, and treatment services to children and families participating in Head Start and Early Head Start.

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• Earn Benefits

  Earn Benefits helps low-income individuals receive immediate assistance to meet their basic needs by screening them through a computer program to determine whether they are eligible for a wide array of public benefit programs and helping them apply for benefits for which they may be eligible. The program is available at a number of our program sites as well as parishes.

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• Elevate

  Personalized and financial support for college students on the path to graduation.

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• Esperanza Center

  Welcoming immigrants by offering hope, compassionate services, and the power to improve their lives.

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• Family Support Groups

  Support groups for families who have a member with mental/behavioral health challenges.

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• Gallagher Respite Care

  Gallagher Services supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in living the life of their choice. They are supported in living, working and being involved in the community as independently as possible. The Cornerstones of the program are Person-Centered Planning and the mission and values of Catholic Charities.

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• Harford County Early Head Start

  Our Early Head Start and Family Center serves pregnant women, parents, and children under three from low-income families. Our teachers provide loving care and guidance through a planned curriculum that incorporates hands-on experiences for parents to nurture their children. We offer parents GED, parenting, and computer literacy classes, peer support groups, and employment training.

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• Head Start of Baltimore City

  Launched in 1965, Head Start is a nationwide, federally funded program that provides a comprehensive range of early childhood development and intervention services for pre-school children and their families. Head Start primarily provides services for children from low-income families and children with disabilities. Catholic Charities’ Head Start programs serve over 800 children and 700 families in Baltimore and surrounding areas.

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• Head Start Programs

  Catholic Charities’ programs nurture and respect the individual strengths and areas for growth in each child and family served. An emphasis is placed on engaging parents in all aspects of the program and helping them to realize their full potential in order to enhance the long-term benefits of the program. Strong, supportive relationships and extensive community partnerships have been established to support families’ goal attainment.

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• In-Home Intervention Program

  Catholic Charities’ In-Home Intervention in Baltimore County focuses on diversion from hospitalization. The targeted population includes children, adolescents and Transitional Age Youth (ages 18-26) in the Baltimore County catchment area. The Program is an intensive Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program (PRP) that provides home-based wrap-around behavioral modification support service to families who care for children and adolescents with mental health and behavior-related issues.

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• Level Up

  Level Up is a program that helps youth 18-24 with specific obstacles so they can find and keep a job.

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• Mental Health Assessment Team

  We strive to provide a timely, quality comprehensive evaluation of mental and emotional health of all referred individuals. Through assessing all individuals strengths and needs using various tools, we can provide a comprehensive diagnosis based upon the criteria of the DSM-5. We strive to provide timely recommendations to the Baltimore City DSS worker to improve the mental health care of children in care.

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• My Sister’s Place Women’s Center

  The services, which include extensive workshops, center on the 8 realms of wellness: emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical, environmental, financial, occupational, and social wellness. More than just a meal program, My Sister’s Place Women’s Center provides a safe haven for women in Baltimore City, a place to receive love and support as they work to overcome their barriers.

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• Project Fresh Start

  Because of the array of services we offer, the parents in our families are able to secure employment and the children make successful progress in the Baltimore City Schools. We help build families that will succeed across the generations.

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• Project Promise

  Project Promise offers permanent individual housing for homeless men, women and families with disabilities. Regular case management sessions are provided to monitor each participant’s progress toward independence. During sessions, the Case Manager and the participant review the participant’s adherence to: budgeting & managing expenses, time management, conflict resolution, employment goals, goals for obtaining education, addiction counseling and/or treatment for mental and physical health.

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• Safe Start

  The Safe Start Program is an assessment and intervention program for families with children ages two to eleven by assessing the behaviors and mental health of children early on.

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• Safe Streets Baltimore Brooklyn-Curtis Bay

  Violence interrupters connect with high-risk individuals to defuse potentially violent situations, and link community youth with services, working within targeted neighborhoods with historically high levels of gun violence. By linking individuals and their families with educational opportunities, employment training and assistance, mental health services, substance abuse treatment and other crucial services, Safe Streets helps to provide young people with alternatives to a life of crime and…

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• Safe Streets Baltimore Sandtown-Winchester

  Violence interrupters connect with high-risk individuals to defuse potentially violent situations, and link community youth with services, working within targeted neighborhoods with historically high levels of gun violence. By linking individuals and their families with educational opportunities, employment training and assistance, mental health services, substance abuse treatment and other crucial services, Safe Streets helps to provide young people with alternatives to a life of crime and…

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• Samaritan Center

  We provide clients in Baltimore City with direct financial assistance to help with rent and traveler’s assistance so they are better able to attain financial stability.

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• Sarah’s House

  Sarah’s House is a supportive housing program offering emergency shelter and project-based supportive housing with an array of other services for families experiencing homelessness in Anne Arundel County. Serving up to 125 people daily, half of whom are children, our goal is to affect positive change in families by providing a range of services and support.

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• St. Vincent’s Villa

  St. Vincent’s Villa offers residential treatment and diagnostic services for children between the ages of 5 and 13 with significant emotional and behavioral challenges in a state of the art facility.

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• Therapeutic After School Programs

  Our Therapeutic After-School Programs provide structured, therapeutic activities two afternoons per week at two different locations in Baltimore County to children ages 5-13.

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• Villa Maria Community Resources: Behavioral Health Clinic

  Counseling, psychiatric, and in-home behavioral health services for families and individuals.

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• Villa Maria Community Resources: Home-Based Respite Program

  Catholic Charities Home Based Respite Program provides a temporary break for the parent(s), guardian(s) or caregiver(s) from the demands associated with caring for children and adolescents who have documented mental health challenges.

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• Villa Maria Community Resources: School-Based Behavioral Health Clinic

  Our licensed therapists are in over 100 schools throughout Maryland ready to help young people with emotional and behavioral issues that can impact them in school and at home.

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• Villa Maria School

  Educational and clinical services for children with emotional, behavioral, and learning challenges.

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