Partnership Proposal for Catholic Charities: Program Overview

This report details a partnership proposal for Catholic Charities, outlining a program aimed at poverty alleviation in rural America. It begins with an overview of Catholic Charities' history and current services, including immigration and refugee services, disaster relief, and family, child, and senior services. The proposal targets the distressed population living below the poverty line and suggests a collaboration with the government, leveraging the government's "Supplement Poverty Measure" to accurately assess and address poverty thresholds. The objectives include offering adult education, computing poverty thresholds, and increasing state-level public expenditure. The proposed budget includes allocations for administrative purposes, training new employees, and transportation. The conclusion emphasizes the potential of this partnership to effectively implement the program and reach rural areas. The report references several academic sources supporting the proposal.

Partnership Proposal for Catholic Charities

About Catholic Charities
• Catholic Charities was created as the Tempa Office for Charity purpose
under the auspices of St Augustine.
• For close to 75 years Catholic Charities has served the network of
providing food, clothing and shelter
• Catholic Charities also encourages and promotes social justice by serving
as the voice for poor and those that are vulnerable.
• The Catholic Charities has been serving all the residents of
Hillsborough, Pasco, Hernando and Pinellas.

History of Catholic Charities
 Catholic Charities has been service the community for close to 75 years.
 The Catholic Charities on yearly basis help and generate hope for more
than 82,000 people
 Catholic Charities has been accredited by the Council on Accreditation
and Better Business Bureau
 Catholic Charities was the recipient of 2015 BBB Pinnacle Award for the
Non-profits.

CATHOLIC CHARITIES
SERVICE AT GLANCE
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Current Services Provided
• Immigration and Refugee Service:
• Disaster Relief:
• Family Child and Senior Service
• Housing
• Leadership Development
• Employment and Jobs Training

Immigration and Refugee Service:
– Catholic Charities for more than 100 years have been providing
services to immigrants and refugees.
– Catholic Charities helps the refugees in resettling in the US by offering
interpreter services, employment training, job placement and
counselling service.
– Providing immigrants and refugees an entire variety of community
service disaster assistance, childcare, older service and
accommodation.

DISASTER RELIEF:
• Catholic Charities supports the disaster response and
recovery effort with the direct help such as home building,
health care service.
• Catholic Charities measure the needs of the disaster
survivors and then work with them over a long term period to
fulfil their needs.
• Catholic Charities provides immediate relief during disaster
which includes cash assistance, food, water and personal
care supplies.

Family Child and Senior Service
• Catholic Charities offers services to adults, families, children and communities.
• Offering life-enriching adult education course that included computer literacy,
parenting and strong family relationships.
• Providing skill education to prisoners and retuning citizens to reduce the
recidivism and supporting their transition to life outside prison.

Target Population
 The proposed program is directed to serve the distressed
people of rural US.
 People living below the poverty line
 Providing amenities to these people places are unable to deal
with the current course of expansion from additional parts of
the nation.

Policy/Program Idea:
• More than 2.6 million Americans have fallen below the poverty line
• 46.2 million people in US are living in poverty
• At the 200% of the central poverty level, the rate of poverty in US would be 30%.
• The government is willing to come under the partnership since they have wide
network reaching the needy people.

Target government involvement
• The government has come up with the “Supplement Poverty Measure”
• The target government program computes the poverty threshold through real
data on customer expenditure for food and shelter.
• Government can exactly obtain the figures how many people are have been
reached through this program
• The advocacy and support network the increased state level public
expenditure at the federal government would lend support to Catholic
Charities in this joint venture

OBJECTIVE AND GOAL OF PLAN
 Offering life-enriching adult education course that included computer literacy.
 Computing the poverty threshold limit through real data on customer expenditure for food and
shelter.
 Implementing the supplementary Poverty Measure through federal programs
 Increasing the state level public expenditure through the federal government initiatives.