Catholic Charities West Virginia
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Mission Statement
Our Vision We envision a West Virginia where all people can access the services they need to be happy, healthy, and reach their full potential. Our Mission Guided by God’s love, Catholic Charities collaborates with community partners, parishes and families to provide caring and compassionate services to people in need and work toward lasting and meaningful change.
About This Cause
As Catholic Charities West Virginia approaches its 90th anniversary in year 2021, its role as the largest private social service provider in West Virginia is a solemn blessing. Serving people in West Virginia with comprehensive assistance in rural and populated communities, collaborating with other social service providers, ecumenical and community service groups, local and state government and businesses is at the forefront of our daily work. Catholic Charities West Virginia is both fiscally and administratively self-governing. The statewide Board of Directors has representatives from each of the seven Catholic Charities regions. Executive Leadership directs the seven regional and seven program offices that are managed by professional staff that live in the communities they serve. Regional councils advise and support the regional directors and their staff. In addition, Catholic Charities WV is assisted in service, fundraising and collected goods drives by over one-thousand volunteers throughout the state. Catholic Charities WV soundly manages an $11 million budget with diversified funding streams that include donations, planned giving, foundation grants, corporate sponsorship and state contracts. To ensure the consistency, effectiveness and sustainability of ongoing and proposed programs, data-driven evaluations are conducted regularly. The agency maintains a low management and fundraising expense ratio that is currently below 10%. The office of Catholic Charities was established in 1931. Located in Wheeling and under the direction of Reverend Joseph Daly, Catholic Charities united the many charitable outreach services already established in the Diocese and greatly expanded the scope and nature of social assistance in the State. The largest and longest running outreach center, Catholic Charities Neighborhood Center (CCNC), opened in 1969 by Sr. Laurentia Gettings, SSJ and Sr. Mary Daniel Singer, SSJ affectionately known as “Salt & Pepper.” Also known as the 18th Street Center, CCNC was established by a generous family donation at the request of Bishop Joseph Hodges to “do some good for Appalachia.” In 1975, the office was reorganized as a self governing and incorporated agency and renamed Catholic Community Services, Inc. The next thirty years saw the expansion of outreach offices in rural communities throughout the state and the addition of five government contract programs. The expansion aimed to alleviate the languishing effects of poverty by responding to people’s basic human needs of food, shelter, clothing in some of the most impoverished and isolated communities in the United States, and to provide good stewardship of federal programs that aim to prevent poverty for children, families and the elderly. With guidance from Bishop Michael J. Bransfield the agency’s name changed to Catholic Charities West Virginia, Inc. in 2008. As statewide communication improved with emerging technology and improved highways, the agency shifted to establishing regional offices in more populated and growing communities to increase collaboration with other organizations and greater access vital resources. In the recent ten years, Catholic Charities WV has been able to improve outreach locations, expand into new areas and develop programs that aim to reduce poverty by offering those served opportunities to improve their circumstances.