Served 210,286 meals .
Offered day shelter for 324 days of the year, provided 424 haircuts and 11,299 showers
Distributed 26,163 items of clothing to homeless individuals
Treated 105 men and women fighting substance abuse
Helped 410 refugees begin new lives
Provided 22,181 services to immigrants seeking help
Administered emergency assistance including food, rent, utilities
and clothing to 1747 households.
Operated the largest food distribution center in Northern Utah
Provided rental assistance to 1264 households in Northern Utah.
Counseled and assisted 252 elderly households
Prepared and donated 684 baby layettes to new parents and their
infants.
Catholic Community Services of Utah
Founded 1945
Our Mission:
As a ministry of the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake, Catholic Community Services of Utah serves the needs of the poor, troubled and oppressed, and helps them solve life problems, and become self-sufficient and healthy.
Our Goal:
To serve those most in need.
Our Purpose:
For nearly six decades, Catholic Community Services of Utah
has been a community service leader in Utah and has earned an
excellent reputation for helping families and individuals who
are in the most desperate of circumstances.
Respect for the gift of life and the dignity of the individual
are core values that underline the broad array of social services
Catholic Community Services provides for those in need regardless
of race, religion or other personal factors.
Our History:
Catholic Community Services began as Catholic Charities in
Salt Lake City in 1945 under the direction of Bishop Duane G.
Hunt. Bishop Hunt recognized the need for an organized diocesan
endeavor to assist the poor. Since then the agency has experienced
many developmental and community milestones and currently delivers
a comprehensive range of social services along the Wasatch Front
and Northern Utah.
Our Services:
St. Mary’s Home for Men is a 39 bed residential treatment
facility designed to return men experiencing drug or alcohol
abuse/dependency to productive and meaningful lives.
Ministry with Older Adults reaches out to senior citizens to
provide them with support to better cope with physical, financial,
medical, family and job-related crisis.
Marillac House is a residential substance abuse treatment center for women and their dependent children. This treatment program focuses on the unique needs of the poor. Treatment is centered on education and empowerment. The goal is to help women build better lives for themselves and their families by building skills and self-confidence, which breaks the cycle of substance abuse..
The Women’s Treatment Program is designed to meet the
special recovery needs of women with substance abuse/dependency
problems.
Joyce Hansen Hall Food Bank and Social Services in Northern Utah provides emergency assistance including
food, clothing and financial resources to low-income families
and individuals, and helps them work toward self-sufficiency.
Immigration and Refugee Resettlement
provides reception and placement services
to refugees and moves them toward self-sufficiency through job
counseling and placement, housing, supportive counseling, referrals
to healthcare and access to English language training.
Immigration services provide immigrants seeking assistance
with eligibility and legal services for problems with visas,
political or religious asylum, naturalization or filing documents.
CCS also assist refugees seeking family reunification, petitions,
work permits, adjustment of status, acquisition of green cards
and translation and interpretive services.
Refugee Foster Care provides temporary guardians for unaccompanied
refugee children until family members are located or until children
are 18 years of age.
Sharehouse, through donations from the public, provides furniture,
household items and clothing for each arriving refugee.
Ministry With Older Adults helps people, ages 55 and older, to cope with age-related physical, financial, medical, family and job-related crises.
Special Assistance provides basic material goods and services to help low-income individuals and families become self-sufficient.
The St Vincent de Paul Resource Center serves 600 to 800 hot lunches
per day. It includes the Weigand Center, which provides showers,
haircuts, personal hygiene items, locker, laundry service, baggage
check, mail-message-phone service, library, temporary job referrals,
special assistance case management, medical,
mental health and legal referrals for homeless individuals.
The St. Martha’s Baby Project in Northern Utah ensures newborns of low-income parents are supplied
with layettes which include diapers, clothing, hygiene products
and blankets.
Catholic
Community Services of Utah ("CCS") was established by
the diocese in 1945 to address the human needs of the people of
Utah. It functions as an organizational umbrella for many programs
and human service initiatives by the Catholic community in Utah.
Through CCS, religious and civic organizations work together to
serve and advocate for the poor and marginal members of society.
A wide array of programs are offered that feed the hungry, welcome the immigrant and the refugee, help the
troubled and protect the vulnerable.