Services
Catholic Charities provides services to people of all faiths. The general groups for whom services are offered include:
- children
- poor
- developmentally disabled
- elderly
The services provided include:
- adoptions
- advocacy
- behavioral health services
- crisis intervention
- employment placement
- employment preparedness training
- family support services
- food and meals
- Head Start programs (for pre-school children)
- immigration legal services
- residential treatment centers
- senior housing
- senior support services
- shelter (for men, women, children, and families)
- special education
- treatment foster care
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