March 2015

Monthly Reflection
From the Mission and Ministry Division
CCUSA Social Policy
Around the Section
National Partners
Resources to Inspire
Position Openings
Monthly Reflection

"Lenten Prayer for Unity and Justice"

Creator Spirit, help us respond to your call to be members of one family. Guide us to
constant, peaceful concern for sisters and brothers throughout the world. Make us
mindful of the needs of those who must endure day by day the injustice of hunger and
poverty. Bless us all this Lenten season that we may live in harmony and unity with
others. Renew our Christian commitment to the global family.
from Prayer Without Borders, cited in Give Us This Day: Daily Prayer for Today's
Catholics (March 2015, p. 11).

From the Mission and Ministry Division

CCUSA is now accepting proposals for workshops and institutes for the Sept. 10-12,
2015 Annual Gathering in Omaha, Nebraska. For forms and guidelines, click
here. Proposals are due March 20, 2015. Questions, comments, and completed
proposals should be emailed to events@catholiccharitiesusa.org.
The next Parish Social Ministry Regional Training is April 17-18 in Charlottesville,
Viriginia. Click here for more information.

CCUSA is a signatory of the Global Catholic Climate Movement. Learn more how
you can become involved in this Catholic international initiative. Activities include a
U.S. Lenten fast on March 16.
CCUSA and CRS have started "You Did It For Me." Catholic Charities agencies and
parishes can receive a 100 word story with graphics for its bulletin, Website, or
newsletter detailing the good work of one of the two organizations every week. For
more information about these weekly "good news" stories, contact Steve Herro.
Become more connected with other PSM Section Members by joining the PSM
linkedin group. You will be able to send email to individual Section members and
the group, read professional profiles of PSM Section members, etc. To join the group,
establish a free linkedin account and contact the PSM Office. Because CCUSA has
reorganized its linkedin groups, you must resubscribe to the new subgroup by
contacting the PSM Office.
CCUSA PSM has established a collection on scribd.com for valuable PSM resources.
To access the collection, click here. You will find back issues of this newsletter,
prayer resources, important invitations to Section sponsored events, etc. Contact the
PSM Office if you would like to add materials to the collection.
Help grow our PSM Section! Share our recruitment flyer and the sign up link to our
free section with colleagues, fellow parish social ministry committee members, etc.
Are you interested in joining between four and seven PSM colleagues for periodic
conference calls to discuss matters of common interest? Please contact the PSM
Office.
CCUSA Social Policy

Catholic Charities USA responded to President Obama's proposed U.S. States budget
for fiscal year 2016. Click here for more information.
Take the CCUSA Social Policy survey on SNAP benefits in your local
community. This data is very important for the work of CCUSA lobbyists.
Join CCUSA and 10 national partners to EDUCATE. INNOVATE. ACT to reduce
poverty in the U.S. Stay connected to CCUSA Social Policy by subscribing to its eletter Washington Weekly, following it on Twitter, and liking it on Facebook.

Around the Section

Archdiocese of Atlanta, Justice & Peace Ministries, Smyrna: $3,000 from the
Goizueta Fund (Catholic Foundation of North Georgia) to help build an online
component to the Social Justice Ministry Leadership Certification Program.
PSM Leadership Team members Deacon Chris Walchuk, an employee of Catholic
Charities, Diocese of Winona and diocesan Rural Life Director, was featured in "Lay
leadership program set to bring Catholic social teaching to eight rural parishes in
Diocese of Winona."
Parish Social Ministry, Catholic Charities Maine, supported 11 diocesan parishes with
grants of $1,000-$4,000 to advance transformational and structural change.
Submit news--events, publications, new staff-- about you and your ministry to
the PSM office.
National Partners

The USCCB Office of Justice Peace and Human Development is accepting

applications for the Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award. It is given annually
to a Catholic young adult between the ages of 18-40 engaged in efforts to end the root
causes of poverty in the United States. The deadline for submission is March 15,
2015.
Legal counsel for CRS and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops cosigned the Feb. 23, 2015 letter with several other faith based refugee resettlement
providers, responding to the Office of Refugee Resettlement United States
Department of Health and Human Services intermim final rule on the harmful effects
of U.S. detention centers on unaccompanied children. For more information, click
here.
Carolyn Woo, President and CEO of CRS, authored "Pope Francis and Climate
Change: A Catholic Tradition," Huffington Post, Feb. 2, 2015.
Joe Grant, JustFaith Ministries is the author of a new publication, Still in the
Storm: Reflections for Engaging Spirituality in Times Like These. It is available for
purchase from JustFaith Ministries.
Bread for the World recently released a background paper "Hunger by Numbers in the
African-American Community." Its 2015 Offering of Letters campaign will focus on
protecting child nutrition. Materials are now available.

The Roundtable invites you to its July 19-23, 2015 Social Action Summer Institute,
"Cherishing Creation: Called to the Common Good." Registration should be live by
the end of this month; full registration, including overnight accomodations at
University of Portland and all conference sponsored meals, is $495.
Send news from your national organization to the Parish Social Ministry office.
Resources to inspire

Oakes, Kaya. Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church.

Berkeley, Calif: Counterpoint, 2012.
Pope Francis. Popes Address to the Italian Confederation of Cooperatives, February
28, 2015.
"Prayer to Begin a Spiritually Oriented Meeting"
Untener, Kenneth. My Name is Ken: The Life and Faith of Ken Untener, Bishop of
the Diocese of Saginaw, Michigan, Told in his Own Words. Saginaw,
Mich: Littlebooks, 2015. (Available for online purchase.)
Position openings

CCUSA and Catholic Charities agency job openings are now posted here. Post your
Catholic Charities agency job opening here.
Director of Social Ministry (Diocese of Sacramento)
Executive Director (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Department of
Migration and Refugee Services)
Program Coordinator--Pastoral Care of Migrants, Refugees, and Travelers (United
States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the
Church)
Sr. Director, Leadership Formation (Catholic Charities USA)
Director, Inclusion and Engagement (Catholic Charities USA)
National Association for Roman Catholic Engagement (Bread for the World)

Relationship Manager, U.S. Operations, Southern California (Catholic Relief

Services)
Relationship Manager, CRS Midwest (Catholic Relief Services)
Senior Policy and Legislative Specialist (Catholic Relief Services)
Community Project Director, Parish and Community Services (Catholic Charities
Brooklyn)
Director of Outreach Ministries (Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Milwaukee)