Services

Criminal Justice Ministry provides pre-release and aftercare services to individuals currently incarcerated and recently released from jail or prison.  Inmates must enroll six months prior to release for aftercare services. 

Sister Visitor Center, 2235 West Market Street (502-776-0155), provides emergency services to people in need of food, clothing, rent, utilities, medicine, etc. Serves people in the Portland, Russell and Shawnee neighborhoods of West Louisville.

Immigration Legal Services provides legal assistance to low and moderate income immigrants and refugees. Services include legal counseling, assistance with completion of applications and forms, and representation at immigration hearings.

Provide Help Create Hope (PHCH) was established by Catholic Charities to respond to the new needs of middle- and working -class people in our parishes facing foreclosures, job losses, retirement income depletion, and health care benefit reductions, even as our agency supports those in chronic need.

Women and Family Related Services encompasses the following programs:

  • Pregnancy & Adoption Services provides pregnancy counseling for women, the biological father and extended families; parenting classes. Open adoption services including counseling, education, and support groups. Counseling available for adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents, including those who are searching.
  • Respect Life assists parishes in understanding and implementing the concept of the Consistent Life Ethic, whereby the respect and dignity of all persons is embraced from the moment of conception to natural death.
  • Project Rachel is a pastoral outreach for those who have had an abortion experience whereby assistance is available from priests, counselors and post-abortion support groups.
  • Mother-Infant Care Program provides assistance and support to women who are pregnant or who have recently had babies.

Parish Social Ministry (the social action office of the Archdiocese) assists parishes to fulfill the Church's mission of love, justice and peace to communally respond in an organized way to societal and individual needs. In light of Catholic social teaching, it has four primary objectives: to increase awareness of injustice and human need; to identify, train and utilize parish lay leadership; to promote and organize action for social change; and to develop needed service programs. It includes:

Migration and Refugee Services provides services for resettling refugees; assesses clients’ needs, provides on-going social services, job placement, housing, case management, English as a Second Language classes, cultural orientation, employment, community resources.
Interpreter and Translation Services provides over-the-phone and in-person interpreters and translations of documents in 40 languages.  Services also include training for interpreters and service providers working with interpreters.

Kentucky Office for Refugees regulates and oversees the dispersal of federal funds to Kentucky's four refugee resettlement programs.