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...
Month: June 2014
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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...
Photos from Partners in Early Intervention Conference
“Partners in Early Intervention” Early Childhood Conference supporters: West Virginia Birth to Three RAU Region One Catholic Charities WVa /Diocese of Wheeling Charleston Wheeling Hospital Ohio County Family Resource Network Northern Panhandle Head Start/ Early Head Start Youth Service Systems Child Care Resource Center Easter Seals Sister’s of Saint Joseph – Health and Wellness Foundation...
Webster Springs Summer Work Camps
A Parish Social Ministry Youth Group from St. James Catholic Church in Charles Town, WV performs an ambitious yearly outreach program to offer their labor to the poor in the central mountains of West Virginia. This “work camp”, based in Webster Springs, offers youth and adults the opportunity for spiritual and physical growth through serving others. Team members go into flood and storm-wearied areas to...
CCWVa’s Promise House Family Resource Center Opens Its Doors in Martinsburg
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. – Catholic Charities West Virginia’s (CCWVa) Eastern Region is celebrating the grand opening of the Promise House Family Resource Center in Martinsburg on May 17 at 1 p.m. at the CCWVa office at 224 South Queen Street. The Catholic Charities Promise House Family Resource Center welcomes all families who are looking for support...
Catholic Charities West Virginia Continues Outreach Services in the Parkersburg Region
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Catholic Charities West Virginia (CCWVa) will remain in operation providing outreach services in the Parkersburg Region. CCWVa’s Parkersburg Regional office is located in the soon to be closed Volunteer Action Center (VAC). CCWVa administers several programs from the regional office including Mobile Outreach and WellnessWorks food pantry and emergency assistance; it also...
CCWVa Expands Emergency Services in Eastern Region
April 5, 2014 By John McVey MARTINSBURG – A staple of Catholic Charities West Virginia’s program is to provide emergency services, including utility termination, rent and prescription assistance, to families in need, but with the opening of the Promise House Family Resource Center in Martinsburg, the organization wants to help families bounce back. “We call...