Back to School
Tips to Ensure Your Children are Safe
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Be aware of new procedures as children return to school this Fall. Familiarize yourself with how your child's school district will handle daily routines.
Some additional items to put in the backpack:
- A personal, clean, well-fitting and comfortable face mask
- Personal hand sanitizer and bottle of water
Remind your child to wash their hands throughout the day and not touch their faces with dirty hands. Reinforce healthy habits: refrain from sharing food or drink with their friends, wash their hands frequently, and wash their face mask each day.
Familiarize yourself with your local COVID-19 testing sites in the event you or your child develop symptoms. Some sites may include free testing.
Ways to Support Your Children
2. Reassure your child that they are safe. Let them know it is okay if they feel upset. Share with them how you deal with your own stress so that they can learn from you how to cope with stress.
3. Limit your family's exposure to news coverage, including social media. Children may misinterpret what they hear and become frightened about something they don't understand.
4. Keep up with regular routines. If schools are online or closed, create a schedule for learning activities and relaxing or fun activities.
5. Be a role model. Take breaks, get plenty of sleep, exercise, and eat well. Connect with your friends and family members.
6. Allocate time with your family. Take a walk, ride a bike, read together, exercise, and play board games.
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Behavioral Health Services
Ways to Support Your Child
If your student is struggling with returning to school, Catholic Charities can help! Families whose children who are experiencing behavioral or emotional problems, may benefit from participating in Catholic Charities' Behavioral Health Services. The program works with children, teens and their families to find ways to address presenting problems to improve quality of life for the entire family.
Appointments are available by safe, remote video-link. The program accepts most insurance plans, and can provide a self-pay sliding fee scale for clients who are under- or uninsured.
To make an appointment with one of our licensed therapists, at any of our locations, call 302-655-9624 and speak to our Admissions Coordinator, Alicia Cottman.
To Support This Program Through Financial Donation
Click here to make an online donation to Behavioral Health Services. Select "Behavioral Health Services"
under "Please designate my gift to the following Ministry."
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Food Assistance
Catholic Charities Helps Families with Food Insecurities
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For those children returning to school, their breakfast and lunch needs will be met through government subsidized programs. But for those children who will not be returning to the traditional school setting, food insecurities will continue. About 20 million kids depend on school for meals.
To make a safe, non-contact food donation, please call ahead to our drop-off locations during business hours, at all Catholic Charities locations (with the exception of Bayard House).
If you or someone you know are in need of emergency food, please click here.
To make an online donation, please click here. Designate your donation, by choosing the "Food Assistance" tab under, "Please designate my gift to the following Ministry."
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Apply Now for Energy Assistance Benefits |
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The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), administered in Delaware by Catholic Charities, is accepting applications for the upcoming heating season, as well as helping LIHEAP eligible folks in the current program year with electric and natural gas arrearages through the LIHEAP CRISIS component due to the COVID public health natural disaster.
LIHEAP is a federally funded program that assists low-income Delawareans with heating bills, energy CRISIS intervention, and Summer cooling (when funds are available) through direct payments to home energy suppliers. Heating benefits are based on household income, size, and type of fuel. Heating fuel assistance provides help for eligible households, who need help paying winter energy bills, but does not pay for all heating costs. Eligible households receive one annual heating benefit. Energy Crisis Intervention (CRISIS) provides assistance for eligible households, who are disconnected or at risk of disconnect from their heating source.
This summer, LIHEAP CRISIS can help LIHEAP eligible Delawareans with electric and natural gas arrearages that put them at risk of disconnect. When the heating season begins after October 1st, LIHEAP CRISIS can help with all fuel types.
LIHEAP eligible Delawareans, who receive delivered heating fuel, may request assistance when their tanks are at 1/4 tank or less, or out of fuel, with no resources to purchase their heating fuel. This supplemental CRISIS benefit can be in addition to the regular heating fuel assistance benefit.
Click here for more information about the LIHEAP program.
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Save the Date! October 6, 2021 |
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2021 Annual Tribute Dinner
Honoring Bishop W. Francis Malooly & Michael Hare
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
5PM
Chase Center on the Riverfront
815 Justison St., Wilmington, DE 19801
This year, Most Reverend W. Francis Malooly, Bishop of the Diocese of Wilmington, will receive the 2021 Msgr. Thomas J. Reese Award. Additionally, this year, Michael J. Hare, who was our 2020 recipient, will receive the 2020 Award as last year's event was canceled due to COVID-19.
Catholic Charities honors outstanding individuals who have demonstrated a deep commitment to addressing the well-being of our communities most vulnerable. We bestow upon these remarkable persons the Msgr. Thomas J. Reese Award, created in 1989 in memory of Msgr. Reese, a community activist and longtime director of Catholic Social Services, is the forerunner of Catholic Charities.
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We graciously thank the following event Sponsors:
Sponsorships are still available for purchase!
Diamond + Sponsor
Abessinio Family Foundation
Platinum Sponsor
M & T Bank
Silver Sponsors
Jean & Tim Desmond
St Mark’s High School
Waldorf Risk Solutions
Bronze Sponsors
Artesian Water
Suzanne & Robert Frazier
Highmark WSFS
Friend Sponsors
Belfint, Lyons & Shuman, P.A.
CSC
Chesapeake Sharing
I. G. Burton & Co
Penna Orthodontics
Lorraine Przywara & Dicky Baumbarger
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Save the Date! November 20, 2021
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7th Running of the Bishop's 5K Run/Walk
Saturday, November 20, 2021
9AM - 11AM • Check in at 8AM
St. Mark's High School
Student Teams, Staff Teams, and PTO Teams encouraged.
Compete Teachers vs. Parents vs. Students!
Registration details coming soon.
Click here for information about becoming a Bishop 5K Event sponsor.
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ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT CATHOLIC CHARITIES OUTREACH. |
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Thank You to All Our Supporters & Partners |
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We continue to receive record numbers of requests for assistance.
Please help where you can.
We accept donations of non-perishable food and grocery items, diapers,
personal hygiene items, cleaning supplies, and gift cards during regular business hours.
Please call ahead to the Catholic Charities location nearest you.
Your kindness goes a long way!
We Would Like to Recognize the following Catholic Charities Partners:
Delaware State Housing Authority, Somerset County Commissioners, Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility,
United Way of Delaware, United Way of Lower Eastern Shore, Delaware Community Foundation, Community Foundation of Eastern Shore, Raskob Foundation, Laffey-McHugh Foundation, Catholic Charities USA.
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Catholic Charities serves the most vulnerable in Delaware and the
Eastern Shore of Maryland, regardless of religion, race, or ability to pay.
For more information about Catholic Charities, click here.
To make a donation to Catholic Charities, click here.
To learn about employment opportunities, click here.
Catholic Charities Mission
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Wilmington exists to help fulfill the Christian duty to love and serve God's people. Our mission is rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The universal and local Church proclaims the Gospel and teaches the recognition of the dignity and sacredness of each human life and the belief that we are called to share our resources with the most vulnerable among us.
It is the mission of Catholic Charities to address human suffering and to promote and restore the well-being of people and society by:
- Providing, as a primary focus, caring service to families and persons in need;
- Coming together with members of the community to become informed about and to take action on critical social issues; and,
- Advocating publicly for social policies which enhance human dignity and safeguard basic human rights.
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