Services
Catholic Charities Services for Children and Families
Catholic Charities programs for children and families focus on building and unifying families, helping children and families achieve healthy social and emotional relationships, and securing special education and behavioral health services that provide the means to achieve self-reliance.
Abuse Prevention
Adoption and Pregnancy Services
Mental Health
Programs for Children and Families
Shelters for Women, Children, and Families
Abuse Prevention
St. Vincent’s Child Abuse Prevention Programs, Child Safe and Illuminations, provide child sexual abuse prevention, awareness and education services.
Adoption and Pregnancy Services
Pregnancy Parenting and Adoption Planning provides counseling, advocacy, and adoption planning services to families who are in crisis because of an unplanned pregnancy.
Mental Health
We offer a variety of mental health services to children and families in nine counties.
Programs for Children and Families
Family Provider Partnership
Family Navigator
Family Support Groups
Family Resources
Center for Family Services provides treatment foster care services, pregnancy counseling, parenting and adoption planning services, and adoptive family services.
Families that Work assists women who are temporary cash assistance recipients starting in their third trimester of pregnancy with attaining the life skills and employment skills necessary to secure employment.
My Sister’s Place Women’s Center is a comprehensive resource center for homeless and impoverished women and children in Baltimore.
Project Fresh Start provides homeless families with housing, counseling, case management, referrals to remedial education, life and job skills training, parenting workshops, financial literacy workshops, case management, and a host of community services.
Family to Family Respite Program provides overnight relief for those caregivers in Baltimore, Harford, Cecil and Carroll Counties who face the challenge of raising a child or adolescent with emotional or behavioral difficulties.
Hope, a specialized treatment foster care program provides services to medically fragile infants and children.
Therapeutic Alternative Shelter Care (TASC), a specialized treatment foster care program providing services to youth ages 12-21 and their families. TASC is an alternative to a juvenile services program.
The Treatment Foster Care Program serves children with medical, emotional, behavioral and/or psychiatric problems within specially trained foster families.
Head Start
Carroll County Head Start is a child and family development program that enables children from low-income families in Carroll County to be better prepared when entering kindergarten, thereby improving the likelihood of their success in school and in life.
Harford County Early Head Start is a child and family development program that provides a child development program and parenting classes to pregnant women, parents, and children under three years of age from low-income families in Harford County.
St. Jerome’s Head Start, in Baltimore city, is a child and family development program that enables children from low-income families in southwest Baltimore to be better prepared when entering kindergarten, thereby improving the likelihood of their success in school and in life.
Residential Programs
St. Vincent’s Center is a 70-bed residential diagnostic and treatment program for children with emotional and behavioral disturbance, ages 3 through 13 years.
Villa Maria Residential Treatment Center
Villa Maria Therapeutic Weekend Respite Program
Villa Maria Therapeutic Group Home
Schools
Shelters for Women, Children and Families
Anna’s House offers transitional and permanent housing for homeless women and their children in Harford County.
My Sister’s Place Women’s Center is a comprehensive resource center for homeless and impoverished women and children in Baltimore.
Sarah’s House is a supportive housing program for homeless families in Anne Arundel County.
