Community Outreach
With the recession of 2008, St. Jude Catholic Church formed a "Career Alliance" outreach to assist those who in the community who lost their jobs find meaningful employment. Volunteers in the parish offered their services to review resumes, teach interview skills, networking and the use of online tools. This was so well received at St. Jude that it was opened up to other parishes in the Diocese and rebranded as the "North Texas Catholic Career Development Community". Fourteen area churches joined with St. Jude in hosting an online jobs database. They hold weekly brownbag networking lunches, and monthly seminars with industry leaders as guest speakers.
"CSI: St. Jude" is the Community Service Investigative team at St. Jude that reaches out to the community, discovering needs, and bringing them to the parish for assistance. In the past they have served Refuge Empowerment Services (a division of Catholic Charities); the Children's Advocacy Center, Hope's Door, My Friend's House, the White Rose Crisis Pregnancy Center, The Juliette Fowler Home, The Clyde W. Cooper Veteran's Home in Bonham, TX, Habitat for Humanity, and provide visitation to the nursing homes and rehab facilities in the area. They also hosted and facilitates health fairs to provide low cost immunizations for children. They sponsor the Title 1 elementary schools in Allen as well.
St. Jude provides an outreach ministry to the teens at Collin County Juvenille Detention Center in McKinney, Texas, housing between 95-110 youth, ages 11-17. St. Jude provides both worship services and life skills training, including resume and cover sheet generation, job interview techniques, financial planning, and career guidance.
"12-Step Meetings" are offered each Saturday morning as a part of their Alcohol and Addiction Ministries.
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