Tuesday, July 22, 2014 W.Va. church groups offer to house refugee youths By Jack Suntrup, Staff writer CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia faith groups are brainstorming ways they could house some of the thousands of Central American children who have flooded the U.S.-Mexican border illegally in recent months.Bryan Minor, spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of...
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We’re All (Green) Thumbs Here!
After several months of careful planning, the dream of having a community garden at the G.W. Petroplus Towers in Wheeling became a reality in May. The aim of this joint project between the Northern Region of Catholic Charities West Virginia (CCWVa) and the Appalachian Institute (AI) at Wheeling Jesuit University (WJU) is to get fresh,...
A Primary Care Summit
The Wheeling Area Primary Care Summit will be held on Tuesday July 15, 2014 Child Care Resource Center – 2000 Main Street – Wheeling 9:00 am to 4:00 pm This event meets the requirement for a conference for Tiered Reimbursement status. Registered with WV STARS as 7 hours of Program Management Morning Coffee/Tea and Lunch...
Tour the Grocery Store
The Northern Region of Catholic Charities West Virginia is one of the recipients of a grant from Catholic Charities USA and Share Our Strength to provide tours of local grocery stores to low-income families, especially those who receive WIC or SNAP benefits. These tours will teach participants about comparison shopping using the unit price, identifying...
CCWVa Eastern Region Seeks Mentors for Fit Kids Berkeley Program
MARTINSBURG, W.Va.—Catholic Charities West Virginia (CCWVa) Promise House Family Resource Center (CCWVa-PH) is collaborating with various community organizations to provide the Fit Kids Berkeley running/walking healthy lifestyles initiative in Martinsburg. The program will be launched this summer during an eight-week camp run by the Martinsburg Boys and Girls Club of the Eastern Panhandle. The program...
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Volunteer’s craft helps mothers in need
Mabel Winesburg hand crocheted eight hats and two blankets for mothers with newborns. Catholic Charities WV’s Birth to Three received them from a volunteer with RSVP program and will deliver them to mothers in need.
The Cooperation of the Human Family
The Cooperation of the Human Family is the title of Chapter five of Caritas in Veritate, in which Pope Benedict the XVI quotes Pope John Paul II, Encyclical letter Evangelium Vitae. “The development of peoples depends, above all, on the recognition that the human race is a single family working together in true communion, not...
Kouper’s Story
The benefits of West Virginia Birth to Three services were even greater than we could have imagined for Kouper. My son Kouper, now six years old, participated in WVBTT beginning when he was seven months old and completed at three when he transitioned into special needs preschool. When Kouper was born after a very complicated...