Poverty can quickly move into a family’s life: a broken appliance, a medical emergency, a costly car repair can spiral into not meeting monthly bills and missing rent payments. It’s just a few steps from that point to the brink of eviction or foreclosure. It’s...
Catholic Charities of Kansas City- St. Joseph is blessed with a diverse and highly skilled Board of Directors. Their board service is voluntary – their compensation is the robust fulfillment of our agency’s mission to alleviate poverty in our 27-county region! They...
We celebrate Mother Teresa’s feast day – September 5 – each and every year. It’s a powerful reminder of why Catholic Charities of Kansas City-St. Joseph exists. When Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950, she told the Vatican that their work would...
Many years ago, our department sponsored American Sign Language (ASL) classes. Recently, in May of 2021, we re-started this program. Our first class met at St. Thomas More in the months of May and June. The class was a beginner’s class (one that Linda Hopkins...
Linda Hopkins began working at Catholic Charities in 2018. She was initially hired as the Donor Stewardship Specialist. At this time, she serves as the Volunteer Manager and the Supervisor of the Deaf and Disabilities Ministry. Her oversight and support have been a...
Two themes motivate the staff at Catholic Charities on a daily basis: the pandemic has increased the number of people in need (our clients), and the rural areas of our diocese does not receive the same amount of support as does the KC and St. Joseph metro areas. ...
