Impact and Programs
Accomplishments
Catholic Charities annually serves over 25,000 people experiencing homelessness, children in need, older adults, people with disabilities, and families through 25 programs at 21 sites. These services are provided through our Housing Stability Division, which includes adult shelters, resource centers, and permanent supportive housing; our Children and Family Services Division; and our Aging and Disability Services Division. Although each program provides unique services, it creates a continuum of care focused on preventing, mitigating, and healing from the impacts of poverty and trauma for individuals and families.
In addition to direct service, our advocacy and public engagement promotes equity, fairness, justice, and the vitality of the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Community. In 2023, Minnesota lawmakers passed the state's largest investment to prevent and end homelessness—including priorities led and endorsed by Catholic Charities to support our direct service programs and address systemic inequities in housing. More than $2 billion in state funding will help strengthen and expand emergency shelter operations for those experiencing a homelessness crisis, enhance tenant protections and homelessness prevention programs, stabilize nonprofit supportive housing providers, increase the supply of affordable and accessible housing, and more.
Current Goals
Catholic Charities Twin Cities mission-driven work aims to foster an inclusive community where everyone has a chance to thrive. To achieve this goal, we take a strategic approach that involves direct services, community partnerships, public engagement, advocacy, and organizational sustainability. We prioritize intensive trauma-informed training to ensure that our dedicated staff continuously approach their work through a lens of racial equity and social justice to form a culture of belonging.
We aim to prevent poverty through education and diversion programs, respond to immediate crises with a robust emergency shelter network, and offer pathways out of poverty with workforce development programs, intensive case management, as well as supportive housing. In addition, we advocate for effective anti-poverty and economic growth strategies that promote the vitality of the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Community.
Our approach is comprehensive and includes the following services: Housing Stability Services, Children & Family Services, Aging & Disability Services, and Advocacy.
The overall goal of Catholic Charities’ mission-driven work is to fulfill our vision where everyone in our community has the opportunity to thrive. We work toward this goal with a strategic approach that includes direct service, community partnerships, public engagement, advocacy, and organizational sustainability. Our activities and services are focused on providing support for people experiencing homelessness, children and families, older adults, and the Greater Minneapolis-Saint Paul community. Through our work we seek to address poverty prevention, crisis response, and pathways out of poverty - workforce development, case management and supportive housing.
Community or Constituency Served
Our programs for children, families, and adults help people regardless of faith, background, or circumstance. Through our advocacy efforts, Catholic Charities serves as a tireless voice for those who often go unheard. Key Customer Focus: people experiencing homelessness, children in need, older adults, and the greater Minneapolis/St. Paul community.
Geographic Area Served
Catholic Charities serves those in and around the Twin Cities metropolitan area and the suburban community.
