CATDIO-7046 Appeal Brochure | 11"x 8.5" | 4C
Some of the services your donation supports:
BASIC NEEDS Emergency Food, Clothing and
Prescription Medicine Assistance
Dental Care (Guild of St.
Apollonia)
Food Pantries
THERE’S GOOD
IN THE WORLD,
IN YOU,
IN EVERYONE.
Women, Infants and Children
(WIC) Nutrition
CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS
Catholic Charities Service Corps
Job Readiness and High School
Equivalency
Multisystemic Therapy
Preventive Services
Psychiatric Assessment and
Counseling
School and Family Intervention
Counseling
COUNSELING
Individual, Family and Group
Counseling
It’s too easy to look at the world and see the bad, the
need, where we fall short. It’s harder to find the good.
We need to look where it begins—within. There, we
find the indomitable spirit of people who only need
a second chance. We also find the boundless spirit
of giving that is the good in all of us.
Catholic Charities spreads the good in our communities
through services ranging from emergency assistance
to job training to specialized services for the elderly.
We do it for more than 142,000 people in need.
And we do it to realize the good that is in each person
and in our community as a whole.
But we can’t do it without your help. Please support
the 2015 appeal today.
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Chemical Dependency Treatment
Expressive Arts Therapy
Marriage Counseling
Psychiatric Assessment and
Counseling
FAMILIES & COUPLES
Adoption and Foster Care
PARISH OUTREACH
& ADVOCACY
Advocacy and Social Justice
Parish Outreach
PERSONS WITH
SPECIAL NEEDS
Advocacy, Family Support
and Counseling
Spiritual/Social Activities for
the Blind
OLDER ADULTS
A Gathering Place Social Day
Program
share God’s
goodness.
Comprehensive Care
Foster Grandparent Program
Home Visitation Program
Project HOPE
(Helping Older People Excel) Telephone Assurance Programs
BISHOP’S FUND
FOR THE FAITH
Apostolate for the Deaf
Campus Ministry
Catholic Urban Outreach
Network
Counseling Center for Clergy
and Religious
Office of Cultural Diversity
Domestic Violence Offender
Program
Family Life
Immigration and Refugee
Assistance
Interfaith Network of Religious
Communities
Kinship Caregiver Assistance
Lay Leadership Development
Hospital Apostolate
Parenting Programs
Peace and Justice Commission
Parent Child Visitation
Youth Leadership Formation
Victim Support Services
Catholic Charities of Buffalo
741 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14209
716-218-1400 ccwny.org
please give to the
2015 appeal
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What do you find at Catholic
Charities? Trust, not judgment.
What do you find within yourself?
The courage to change.
Catholic Charities is in the business of looking forward—
Keshaun Atwood made an unfortunate choice back in
and helping people look inside themselves to see the
2009. After paying the price for his actions, he found
good that is inherent in us all.
himself with a different kind of choice in December
Craig Pittinger counsels clients through the Work and
2013—what direction his life would follow moving forward.
Gain Education and Employment Skills (WAGEES)
Keshaun chose change. It was not easy and it did not
Program, helping people with a difficult past attain a
happen overnight.
record of achievement and those with limited education
ascend to a higher place in life. “It’s just a great,
rewarding feeling to see people overcome obstacles
in their life and better themselves for the future.”
This program is just one way Catholic Charities helps
people in our community to put aside the past, to look
ahead to a brighter future, and to change their lives by
drawing on a strength from within…and above.
Change came step by step in new ways of dressing,
speaking and behaving. A paid internship had Keshaun
out the door at 5:00 a.m. to catch the bus.
Small changes grew into a whole new life and Keshaun
saw each day as a new opportunity to better himself.
Through Catholic Charities, he found job training,
$1O.9 MILLION
KESHAUN ATWOOD
Catholic Charities Client
got a driver’s license, started a job, bought a car and
moved up to a better job. Now Keshaun looks forward
to college and a future full of hope.
OUR 2O15 GOAL IS
“If someone is showing that they care and
that they want to help, I have no choice but
to give it my all.”
“I know I’m only taking baby steps, but it’s baby steps to
where I want to be in life.”
“I want to see change in the community I live
in by helping people out, one by one, and
changing people one individual at a time.”
CRAIG PITTINGER
Catholic Charities Case Manager/Educator
please return your pledge card or support the 2015 appeal online at ccwny.org
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