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Catholic Social Services
Our Mission
To promote healing, restore hope and affirm human potential through serving
those in need, speaking out for justice and calling others of good will to do
the same.
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES
680 West Peachtree St, NW
Atlanta, GA 30308
Phone number 404-881-6571
Fax number 404-888-7816
http://www.cssatlanta.com/
1. Counseling Services
a) Individual, couple, family, pastoral and group counseling for children,
adolescents, adults, religious and clergy, and the elderly;
b) Pre-marriage Counseling and evaluation for engaged couples in collaboration
with diocesan clergy;
c) Child Guidance Program: Professional and volunteer-based counseling and
prevention program in elementary schools; designed to help children and families
with social adjustment, behavior and teaming problems before they become
resistant to change; and
d) Consultation with elementary and high school teachers about mental health and
individual and community trauma as they affect the school.
2. Pastoral Counseling Services
a) Pastoral Counseling combines mental health counseling with spirituality,
faith and religion.
3. Pregnancy and Adoption Services
a) Child Placement: Adoption and Foster Care for Infants in need of permanent
and/or temporary homes. Licensed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky as a child
placement agency;
b) Support for Problem Pregnancy: Individual and group counseling for birth
parents and their families, pre-natal and post-natal; and temporary foster care
for infants during decision-making process; and
c) Post-adoption Services: Services to both parents, adoptive parents and
adoptees who are seeking post-adoption information, counseling or reunions.
4. Substance Abuse Treatment Services
a) Psychoeducational groups for adult children of alcoholics;
b) Individual and group therapy for individuals and families affected by
substance abuse; and
c) Non-medical individual and group counseling and education for youth and
adults at high risk of substance abuse. Licensed by the Commonwealth of
Kentucky.
5. Substance Abuse Prevention Services
a) Substance abuse prevention and mental health wellness groups through
education regarding peer pressure, self-esteem, decision making, building
healthy relationships, etc. licensed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky offered in
the schools, parishes and institutions as well as the central office; and
b) Children of Alcoholics support/educational groups in schools.
6. Child Abuse Prevention Services
a) Young Families Center: An educational and therapeutic environment for
families with children ages six and under who are at risk for abuse, neglect and
exploitation;
b) Family Conciliation Program: Counseling mediation, education and
psycho-educational groups for parents and children experiencing divorce;
c) Peacemaking: assisting students, parents and teachers in resolving conflict
without violence, anger, or threat; and,
d) Individualized Parenting Consultations for families who are at risk for
abuse, neglect and exploitation.
7. Adult Development Services
a) Parenting Education: Courses workshops and talks that address problems of
parenting and family life across the life span. Programs are offered at the
agency, in the community and at the parish: special education presentations for
single parents, step-parents and abusing parents. Over twenty (20) programs are
available;
b) Adult Development Consultation: Assistance in developing programs in the
community and in the parish which address problems of human growth and
development across the adult life span; and
c) Individualized Parenting Consultations for families.
8. Community Organizing Services
a) Community empowerment and convening bringing people together with a
common interest to develop organized responses to self-identified needs.
b) "Insights": An experience of urban poverty for youth and adults who
are
interested in serving the economically poor;
c) "National Issues Forum": Structured discussion groups for adults
seeking
information concerning social problems, e.g., racism and poverty.
d) Technical Assistance - assisting community groups engaged in addressing
community social issues.
e) Parish Social Ministry: A diocesan-wide effort to consult with Social
Concerns
Committees and other interested parties at the parish level around human and
societal need, e.g., housing, hunger, poverty, etc.;
f) Senior Self-Help: A program that convenes senior citizens to advocate for
their
own needs;
Values-based program for the spiritual and emotional well-being of seniors; and,
Program for families of seniors in need of special care;
g) Consultation with and convening services for community groups working to
bring the gospel to bear on social change.
h) "Just Faith" is a small group-study, faith-sharing, and social
action experience in the peace and justice traditions of the Catholic Faith.
This program is modeled off the RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults).
9. Housing Support:
Safe Passage Program and Solid Ground Program - A full range of services to
persons who are inadequately housed including; task-centered casework and case
management with the homeless, landlord / tenant mediation, credit repair
counseling, home purchase training and support, home maintenance and repair
training.
10. Advocacy
Catholic Social Services Advocacy Agenda
Catholic Social Services speaks out for justice by advocating for issues that
impact the lives of people.
Agency of Catholic Social Services: Crisis
Pregnacy and Adoption Services for girls 14-21 years of age.
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