Carolyn E. Fugett Intergenerational Center

Services & Partners

• Early Head Start

  The Center will house two infant classrooms (0-1) and two toddler classrooms (1-2.5 years). Through the Early Head Start model, Head Start staff are able to work with families as early as the expectancy stage of parenthood. These sites will be Catholic Charities’ first Early Head Start sites in Baltimore City. Our Early Head Start classrooms will support 12 infants and 16 toddlers across our four classrooms.

• Head Start

  The Fugett Center will serve 75 3-4 year olds across our 5 Head Start classrooms. With a total of 9 Head Start and Early Head Start classrooms, the Fugett Center represents the largest Head Start site in Baltimore City.

• St. Edwards Food Pantry

  The Fugett Center will serve as the new home for Catholic Charities’ largest food pantry, currently located at St. Edwards Church. The food pantry will provide customer-choice style meals programming to the community on a bi-weekly basis.

• Catholic Charities Success Academies

  Building on Agency trauma-informed employment training practices in place at programs like Christoper Place and VMBH, Success Academies will include trauma-informed case management and behavioral health support embedded in workforce development programming. This model includes contextualized literacy and numeracy tied directly to career pathways, stipends and barrier remediation, sector-based credentialed training in fields like healthcare, IT, and construction, employer partnerships that co-design curriculum and create placement pipelines, and long-term alumni networks and post-placement support

• Requity Youth Workforce Programming

  Requity Foundation is a neighborhood-based youth occupational training provider specializing in construction, culinary, digital media/storytelling, and screen printing. High-school age youth will receive vocational training and certification through 12-15 week cohorts. Learn more: https://www.requity.org/

• Community Hub Programming

  Activity management staff will oversee community registration for 6 Group meeting rooms, 2 large community gathering spaces, an indoor and outdoor covered basketball court, and an office sharing space comprised of 9 work stations. In addition, three community center classroom spaces will host a circulating calendar of events throughout the year, including topics like financial literacy, art, musical theatre, exercise, and health and wellness.

• Safe Streets Community Violence Intervention (CVI) Work

  The IGC Will serve as the administrative base for Safe Streets CVI work. Though not a Safe Streets post, the Fugett Center will serve as the base for programmatic leadership to develop services even beyond our posts, in collaboration with the neighboring Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (MONSE). There are currently 10 Safe Streets sites (four led by Catholic Charities), covering 2.7% of the city. The IGC will allow a few Safe Streets staff to continue to develop citywide and “behind-the-walls”/re-entry work.

• PeacePlayers

  Founded to bridge divides in communities affected by conflict, PeacePlayers focuses its regional work on building relationships across neighborhood lines through sports-based programming. At the center, youth can participate in PeaceLeague Jr. and PeaceLeague, which offer multi-week afterschool sessions that combine basketball, leadership development, and opportunities to connect with peers from different schools. Older participants can continue into a Leadership Development Program for ages 13–18, while the organization will also host adult recreational league play on weekends.

• Villa Maria Behavioral Health

  The VMBH Fallstaff clinic will relocate from Park Heights to the Fugett Center, which will serve as the headquarters for Catholic Charities school-based therapy embedded in more than 30 Baltimore City public schools, including five within a 2.5-mile radius of the center. The clinic will also offer specialized services such as Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), allowing therapists to coach families in real time through observation technology.