Catholic Charities of California (CCC) has been awarded $200,000 in additional funds to conduct Medi-Cal Outreach & Enrollment Assistance to undocumented youth and members of mixed-immigration-status households. The program is funded by a grant from The California Wellness Foundation (Cal Wellness). Created in 1992 as a private independent foundation, Cal Wellness’ mission is to improve the health of the people of California by making grants for health promotion, wellness education and disease prevention.
These funds augment CCC’s existing three-year grant from TCWF, which began on January 1, 2016, to provide Medi-Cal outreach and enrollment assistance to undocumented youth. The project period for this additional funding starts on May 1, 2017.
Additional funds from TCWF will allow Local Catholic Charities Organizations to outreach to 4,674 individuals and and assist 494 more eligible undocumented youth and other eligible individuals to apply for Medi-Cal coverage over the next 20 months. Undocumented youth became eligible to enrollment in Medi-Cal on May 1, 2016, under a new State law.
Local Catholic Charities Organizations participating in the original grant and augmentation include: Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, Inc.; Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa; Catholic Charities of Orange County; Catholic Charities Diocese of Monterey; Catholic Charities Diocese of Stockton; Catholic Charities of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, and Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego.
This is truly the work of the Lord!
Thank goodness someone is attending to the needs of these youth!
Catholic Charities is misnamed. I refer to it as Leftist Charities.
More $ coming down pipeline. Not a surprise I that more funds are flowing into these “loosely affiliated” offices of the Diocese. But when you look closer Catholic Charities their vision and mission is not living the social doctrine of the Catholic Church – for they know not the spirituality behind the good work. The staff are very secularized and not necessarily even Catholic. We conclude the real needs of these youth ultimately will NOT be met through Catholic Charities as the present model stands. The work of the Lord must include making disciples of Jesus; otherwise you are not addressing the FULL integral development of these children. If salt loses its flavor what good is it? The bishop’s know this –
Doing “good” with plunder is not charity at all. It’s also the fourth and most inefficient quadrant of the spending square: Spending other people’s money on other people.
So, group, let us begin a new program and let Catholic Charities implement it for us. No more, in any diocese, will we help the needy and the sick find employment, housing, medical care or mental health aid. No more, in any diocese, will we help people make first and last month’s rent, learn English, study for citizenship tests, provide clothes for the kids to go to school, provide school supplies, etc. Enough already! We have go to stop giving “these” people any help of any kind. God would not want us to help the needy. We know that from reading the Gospel. Jesus would not want us to help people fit into world of work. He Holy Spirit would never condone helping the helpless. Have you people gone mad? Is everything in you…
This is what the Church teaches: https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/economic-justice-economy/catholic-framework-for-economic-life.cfm.
So, group – let’s talk about the integral development of the whole person. Of course the extremes of opinion are what comments will draw. But to overlook the spiritual realities is what I’m addressing here. Sadly, Catholic Charities does that too often.
Siting USCCB teaching is great – but point number 2 in the list involves a recognition of moral principles. https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/economic-justice-economy/catholic-framework-for-economic-life.cfm: #2. “All economic life should be shaped by moral principles.” Does Catholic Charities specifically teach these Catholic Moral Principles? Does it partner closely with their local chancery offices of Religious Education to bring all those whom they…
are serving into a close and personal relationship with Christ (not speaking of strong-arming people, nor proselytizing). From what we’ve seen – this is NOT happening. Balance in serving the physical and spiritual needs of every poor person must be sought.
The USCCB’s “Economic Framework” succumbs to a modernist interpretation of the Gospel, replacing God’s Rights with man’s “rights”. Our Lord never suggests that a person has a “right” to anything produced by another. If person “A” has a “right” to food, shelter, medicine, etc. then person “B” must provide it. Person B can either voluntarily choose to help provide it — cooperating with God’s graces, which is a virtuous act — or “B” can be forced to provide it — an immoral or amoral act, as of a beast. The ends do not justify the means. Committing sin — theft, robbery, extortion, taxation, fraud — to provide for a moral outcome, has never been taught as dogma by Our Lord, His apostles, or His Church.