Catholic Charities Bureau

EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM:This Program provides the basic necessities to prevent homelessness. The program assists families who have temporary difficulty paying their rents, mortgage, or utility bills and/or rent or utility deposits due to unforeseeable circumstances such as job loss or illness. In addition to assistance with paying bills, the program assists with gasoline cards and provides food from its pantry to clients in need and does food outreach to neighboring counties on a regular basis. The food program also provides food for school aged children and siblings through a weekend hunger backpack program. The program provides case management and financial assistance for people with aids. The program also provides educational program for financial fitness, budgeting and self-sufficiency.

FOOD BANK:The Food Bank in Lake City, Florida receives and distributes food to the needy in Northeast Florida.

REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM:Refugee Resettlement Program helps resettle displaced people who have been designated as legal refugees by the US State Department and the United Nations High Commission on refugees. Refugees and their families flee their countries to escape religious and political persecutions that endanger their lives. Staff of the program provide a wide variety of services: housing, food, school enrollment, access to health care job readiness training, job development and follow up and more. Through services provided by this program refugees acquire cross-cultural information, skills and a social support network needed to gain stability, make a positive personal and social adjustment, maintain family connections and achieve educational, economic and civic participation goals.