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Outreach focus: To break down barriers created by isolation, fear, and prejudice and to provide access to services through home visits.Services Provided: -Family Assistance includes emergency financial assistance for homelessness prevention rent, utilities, prescriptions, and other financial aid; legal advice, furniture, counseling, heaters and fans, seasonal items such as Christmas assistance, school supplies, Easter baskets, clothing, and food; home visits; advocacy with landlords, utility companies and community organizations. Health Outreach: For adults and children who live in urban communities and are affected by chronic disease at alarming rates. Health issues addressed include: -Stay at Home Program provides in-home Parents as Teachers training—including home visits with educational, health, and life skills topics, as well as direct aid and advocacy services. -Asthma HELP helps children and adolescents improve the quality of their lives as they are affected by this near urban epidemic. Issues addressed include healthcare, environment learning, and prevention. -Lead OUT helps keep children six months to six years from being poisoned by lead through outreach, understanding, and testing. First Step includes outreach and casework for those suffering from addiction. -Health CARES includes outreach and casework for adults suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure, breast cancer, or mental illness. Home Visits and Casework: Using an outreach and casework model to help those in health crises raise their level of awareness of the disease in the community, to provide connection to resources to address the issue and to promote better health management toward an improvement in quality of life. Health Groups for Children and Adults: -Open Airways: Children with asthma -Midtown Movers: Aerobic exercise program -Fit Friends: Exercise and nutrition education -TIME: Substance abuse group -BET: Adults with asthma Youth Programs and Services: Year-round groups that help children and adolescents reach their full potential. Groups are social growth and development and tailored to the needs of individual ages. They include: -After-school Club: Groups for children in kindergarten through 12 years of age. -After-school Playgroup: Group for children kindergarten through 12th grade. -Teen Club: Group for children 7th through 12th grade. -Summer Academy Daycamp: Group for children in kindergarten through 12 years of age. -Teen “Junior Leader”: Leadership training for 8th through 12th graders. -Kids in the Arts: Teaches children drumming, cooking, and poetry among other “artistic” outlets. -Tutoring: “Reading Club”—tutoring by adult volunteers as well as tutoring by teens from local high schools. School Advocacy and Home Visits: Includes transportation to Midtown from several surrounding neighborhoods for children participating in Midtown groups or programs. Adult Group Activities: Provides an opportunity for neighbors to connect with each other in social or educational settings. Opportunities include: -The Midtown Mamas: Social group for mothers -Focus Groups: Focusing on neighborhood and social issues -Community Prayer Services -Seasonal Events: Include Daycamp closing program, a Christmas program, and open houses -Asset and Resource Development Seminars: Assists people deal with economic crises and realize assets and barriers to success Family Activities: Provides opportunities to bring families together for fun, community-building, education, and recreation. Includes: -Open House (arts program exhibits in the spring) -Family Fun Fair (May of each year) -Halloween Health Fair -Family Fun Night (November) -Family Christmas Party Clients Served: -Individuals who may benefit from the services provided at Catholic Charities Midtown Center include: families and children with incomes under the federal poverty guidelines ($19,600 for a family of four,) adults with urban health issues, economic concerns, social problems, and emotional crises, children with health, social, school, and emotional issues. |
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