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The Veterans Outreach Center (VOC) has been helping veterans at the Lodestar Day Resource Center at the Human Services campus for 6 years. After a one-year closure due to the pandemic, the VOC reopened with a plan to provide high-impact services while protecting clients and social distancing.

For Bob and Becky, foster care and adoption are more than choices, they are a calling. “When we first started dating, I asked Bob if he would be open to adopting,” said Becky. “It was on my heart since I was a child.”

Kids Need to Read provided Catholic Charities with 2,225 new books in English and Spanish, as well as Highlight Magazines and Spanish High Fives Magazines! This donation was valued at almost $35,000!

In January 2019 they took the first step toward infant adoption and attended a Joining Hearts information session.

“I didn’t think he would try to kill me. My little girl is going to see my die.” That was the moment that changed everything. Ashley knew getting out and getting safe was a matter of life and death for her daughter and her unborn child.