Catholic Charities of Dallas
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Programs and results
What we aim to solve
We are front-line responders to some of North Texas' most pressing issues and needs, including alleviating poverty and hunger; providing shelter for the homeless; welcoming migrants and asylees/refugees; ensuring equitable access to high-quality early childhood learning; protecting vulnerable, low-income seniors; caring for unaccompanied minor children coming from the Southern border or war-torn countries; providing pregnancy counseling and support to low-income women; facilitating adoptions to loving families; providing parenting skills classes to stabilize the home environment; helping families achieve financial stability.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Financial Stability & Career Services
The focus of this program is on serving, educating and empowering individuals to break the cycle of poverty and achieve long-term financial stability. We provide integrated services in the areas of career planning and job placement, financial literacy, and income supports. The goal is to help clients increase net income, reduce debt, increase credit scores, build savings, and increase overall net worth. We also provide housing-related support, education, and resources, including homebuying, foreclosure prevention, post-purchase, and rental counseling. For first-time homebuyers, we offer the HUD-approved class and certificate required by lenders, realtors, and down payment assistance programs.
Senior Services/Brady Senior Center
Catholic Charities Dallas has served low-income seniors for over 40 years, providing our growing senior population a variety of resources to maintain their independence and a safe place to enjoy community and congregate meals. Located in West Dallas at the CCD Marillac Community Center, our program offers ample parking and is accessible by DART (lines 59 and 549). Transportation is also available to qualifying members.
Educational Services
Catholic Charities is dedicated to ensuring infants, toddlers and children - and their parents as their first teachers and advocates - have the tools to be ready to learn and thrive in school and beyond. Together We Learn fosters cognitive and language development in young children (birth to 5 years), while providing literacy and parenting instruction to their parents. TWL is a 9-month, daily program offered at two locations - West Dallas' Cardinal Farrell Community Center and Bachman Lake. Together We're Better is a 16-week, mobile parenting and early learning program designed to promote nurturing and caring parents focused on the early education of their children. Together We Read is a 6-week, intensive, summer reading program that helps equip parents with the necessary tools and resources to extend the building of reading skills into the home environment. Our After-School and Summer Camp programs also focus on academic enrichment, particularly as it relates to literacy.
Pregnancy, Parenting & Adoption
We provide wraparound support, resources and education for pregnant women and parents. Our Parenting in Action Program assists families in the DFW area who are pregnant or have a child between 0-36 months. We offer weekly parenting classes to support efforts in parenting your children, while also offering material assistance through our partnership with Hope Supply Company. Our Adoption Program provides a safe haven and choice to birth parents and prospective adoptive parents. Through intensive vetting and background screening, we match babies and families to thrive in loving environments. Finally Homes works with the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to place children that are in DFPS custody into permanent adoptive homes that are approved and supervised by our program directors and staff.
Cardinal Farrell Community Center After-School Program
Serving West Dallas, the Cardinal Farrell Community Center is a licensed and accredited center providing high quality educational programs for children who are mostly attending DISD, charter or private schools. Our academic support program provides homework assistance and tutoring to 150 underserved students in West Dallas, serving students from PreK through 7th grade. We strive to meet their educational needs by providing individualized plans tailored to their reading and math needs, and each student is offered up to 11 hours of homework assistance and tutoring each week during the 36-week school year. Each student is also provided home access to a reading and math online tutoring program. Our afterschool tutors include both teachers and college students who were born and raised in West Dallas and are truly invested in the future of their community.
Refugee Resettlement Services
Catholic Charities Dallas has welcomed, advocated for, and empowered refugees for over 40 years. Our team helps refugees assimilate into their new communities by providing case management and resources, including helping to secure housing, furniture, household items, and food for each refugee family seeking shelter in the United States.
Disaster Relief & Preparedness Services
Disaster Relief and Preparedness Services is a holistic program designed to address the immediate and long-term needs of victims of natural disasters. Trained case managers provide relief in the form of financial and material aid, employment assistance, long-term recovery plan development, and help finding temporary and permanent housing.
This service is one of the only programs in the DFW area that offers long-term case management after a natural or personal disaster in addition to short-term assistance. The program empowers survivors of disasters to rebuild their lives and homes through programing, partnerships, and referrals.
Immigration Legal Services
ILS represents individuals across North Texas in a variety of immigration matters, including family-based petitions, citizenship applications, immigration benefits for victims of crime and domestic violence, permanent residence for refugees and asylees, representation for unaccompanied children, legal orientations for detained individuals, and community outreach and education in immigration matters.
Hunger Services
A strategic focus of Catholic Charities is to alleviate hunger and food insecurity in our community. We operate two community food pantries - one in Dallas and one in Lancaster - and three mobile community pantries that service 90+ locations each month throughout the nine-county area we serve.
Homelessness & Housing Services
Catholic Charities has several programs designed to prevent homelessness or house those who are homeless or housing insecure. St. Jude Center-Forest provides permanent supportive housing for over 100 formerly homeless seniors in a caring environment with dedicated case management, easy access to healthcare, social activities, a real sense of community and, most important, a place for dignity to come back into their lives. In late 2020, Catholic Charities added a second community, St. Jude Center-Park Central, which provides permanent supportive housing and transitional housing for adults 18 or older who are homeless. Through federal, state and local grants, Catholic Charities also offers rapid re-housing services, including medium-term rental assistance and supportive services that stabilize homeless households by transitioning them into permanent housing. We also offer eviction prevention services for those who are going through an eviction process with the landlord.
Where we work
Awards
High-Quality After School Program 2022
Dallas After School Network
Finalist, Nonprofit Leader of the Year 2023
D CEO Magazine
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of meals served or provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Families, Adults, Low-income people
Related Program
Hunger Services
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Food is distributed via fixed food pantries in Lancaster, Ennis and Rockwall, and via mobile community pantries that deliver to over 100 locations each month
Number of homeless participants engaged in housing services
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Homeless people
Related Program
Homelessness & Housing Services
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
In 2022, we were asked to provide emergency housing to large numbers of homeless during inclement weather and also for COVID-impacted homeless. In 2023, we transitioned away from this.
Number of refugees resettled
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Refugees and displaced people
Related Program
Refugee Resettlement Services
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Decreasing
Context Notes
Decrease in number of refugees and asylees arriving in U.S.
Number of children achieving language and literacy proficiency
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Educational Services
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of adults who received literacy services
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Parents
Related Program
Educational Services
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Increase in number of parents receiving services due to expansion of our Together We're Better, a 16-week, mobile (community-based) early learning and literacy program
Number of clients served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Disaster Relief & Preparedness Services
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Decreasing
Context Notes
Number of clients receiving emergency financial assistance related to COVID-19, natural disasters, or other circumstances disrupting their financial stability, such as a fire or medical condition
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Every day, we help our community's most vulnerable by taking on the effects of poverty and helping all those in crisis move toward a better life. If we can't help, we know who can.
Our vision is to be recognized as an effective leader serving the most vulnerable in our communities on their journey toward hope, independence and a better life.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Catholic Charities is focused on addressing the root causes of poverty, hunger, disenfranchisement, and homelessness in North Texas. We are conveners, collaborators, and problem-solvers. We engage and activate a broad pool of volunteers; we rely on the counsel of our highly experienced board members; and we leverage the talents and expertise of our staff to effect lasting, meaningful change in the lives of each of our clients.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Catholic Charities is one of the leading social-service providers in the greater Dallas/North Texas region. We educate, serve and empower more than 200,000 clients in need annually across a nine-county region, addressing the root causes of poverty, hunger, disenfranchisement, and homelessness. A large multi-disciplinary agency, CCD provides integrated services across 11 mission areas and 37 programs, including hunger alleviation through boxed food pantries, client choice pantries and mobile community pantries; early childhood education; low-income elderly supports; permanent supportive housing for homeless adults and homeless seniors; immigration legal resources; pregnancy, parenting and adoption counseling; refugee resettlement; shelter and foster care for unaccompanied refugee and immigrant minors; financial coaching and career development assistance; disaster preparedness and relief; community medical care; community relations, advocacy and more.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
In the last year, we distributed nearly seven (7) million meals to combat hunger and food insecurity among North Texans. Responding to housing insecurity as families struggled through the global pandemic, we distributed over $17 million in emergency financial assistance (rent/mortgage and utility payments). We helped nearly 9,000 clients navigate challenging economic situations due to natural disaster, fire, serious medical conditions and/or COVID-19. We consulted with over 25,000 migrants on pathways to citizenship, their rights as migrants, etc. We opened a new 201-unit permanent supportive housing community for formerly chronically homeless individuals.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Catholic Charities of Dallas
Board of directorsas of 01/18/2024
Mr. Steve Suellentrop
Hunt Oil
Term: 2020 - 2022
Steve Suellentrop
Hunt Oil
Tom Codd
PwC
Jeff Schneider
Jeff Schneider & Assoc
Phyllis Conces
IBM (retired)
Rebecca Almanza
University of Dallas
Kevin Bartholomew
Ben E Keith
Jim Bradley
Sidley Austin (retired)
Ray Chavez
Exponent HR
Bill Dandridge
The Dandridge Group
Greg Dieter
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Scott Deke
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Alfredo Duarte
Taxco Produce
Raul Estrada
Marcer Construction
Thomica Evans
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Jean Fuchs
AT&T
Gerard Heeley
CHRISTUS Health
Shauna King
PepsiCo (retired)
Paul Koch
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Mary Manning
AT&T (retired)
Marguerite Marz
Community Volunteer
Kathy Muldoon
Carter Financial Management
Brian O'Boyle
ARA
Michele Stephens
Community Volunteer
Scott Deke
Bessemer Trust
Most Reverend Edward J. Burns
Bishop of Dallas-Diocese of Dallas
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
Race & ethnicity
Gender identity
Transgender Identity
Sexual orientation
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Disability
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Equity strategies
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- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.