Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego (CCDSD)

Open Arms:The Refugee Resettlement Program provides reception and placement services, including cultural orientation, cash assistance, case management, preventive health screening and health education, employment and social services. The services are for newly arrived refugees, asylees, Cuban/Haitian parolees, foreign-born victims ofhuman trafficking and special immigrant visa holders from Iraq and Afghanistan. The resettlement program assisted 311 persons and the Refugee Health Assessment Program served 607 persons.The Immigrant Services Program strives to foster family reunification, economic empowerment, political participation, and social integration by providing low-cost, high quality immigration services that enable eligible immigrants and refugees to obtain legal immigrant or citizenship status. Immigrant Services provideslegal assistance to individuals who qualify for immigration benefits, regardless of ethnic background. The offices in San Diego and Imperial Counties offer immigration counseling and application assistance to very low to moderate income clientele. The program assisted 7,938 people through casework and group orientation sessions held in a ...

Family, Youth, Children and Community Services:teaching individuals and families in San Diego and Imperial Counties about good nutrition, leveraging CalFresh benefits, and being physically active. Our program is passionate about making the healthy choice, the easy choice in our communities. CalFresh seeks to improve the likelihood that persons eligible for CalFresh Food (SNAP) will make healthy food choices within a limited budget and choose physically active lifestyles consistent with the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. Our CalFresh program provides behaviorally focused, evidence-based, nutrition and physical activity education classes to low income individuals in the community. We partner with our sister-agency programs and other local organizations and champions to provide these services, as well as build collaboration and leadership toward healthy community initiatives. Catholic Charities Food Resources Centers provided 27,282 instances of food assistance during 2019. A total of 3,999 unduplicated households, representing 10,139 ...

Homeless Services:Homeless Services mission is to provide a safe, supportive, sober environment and opportunities for men and women with few or no resources to gather, begin, and continue self-help efforts.Homeless Mens Services provides short-term emergency shelter and case management to general homeless men, day laborers and farm workers. La Posada de Guadalupe is located in North San Diego County and Our Lady of Guadalupe is located in Imperial County, City of Calexico. Homeless Mens Services Department provided services for 350 unduplicated clients.Homeless Womens Services provides a continuum of services for homeless women in San Diego County. The continuum includes a drop-in day center, night shelter, independent living, affordable housing and work readiness training. This San Diego continuum assists homeless women by moving them from homelessness to shelter & housing. The San Diego continuum served 1,995 women in San Diego. Imperial County Catholic Charities/Homeless Womens Services operates a 24-bed shelter for ...