Programs and Services

Services for Children and Families

San Joaquin County

Children’s Health Initiative
Catholic Charities works with area churches, community centers, hospitals, school districts and other organizations to locate, register and maintain eligible children
on Medi-Cal, Healthy Families or Healthy Kids programs.

Emergency Food Program
The Emergency Food Program provides a temporary solution to hunger. With the bountiful food supplies available in the agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley, we believe that no one should go hungry. Supplies a box of nutritious food to 250 families each month.  And provides enough groceries to prepare over 67,000 meals for needy families each year. 

Mission for Marriage for Life (MML)
Through a grant from the California Healthy Marriages Coalition, the MML program teaches couples how to be better communicators, gain knowledge, and build relationship skills to transform their marriage.  It is the goal of the program to train couples throughout the Diocese to become leaders of MML groups in their parishes. 

Nutrition Assistance Services
Through the use of volunteers and partnerships with other nonprofit and government agencies, Catholic Charities has begun an aggressive outreach and eligibility screening campaign to increase access by eligible individuals and families in San Joaquin County to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP.)

Prenatal Care Program
The Prenatal Care Program is an aggressive outreach to provide encouragement and support services to pregnant women (girls) who may not have the resources to seek appropriate prenatal care for themselves or their unborn babies. This program has been funded by Catholic Health Care West and First Five of San Joaquin

Mother Lode

Mission for Marriage for Life (MML)
Through a grant from the California Healthy Marriages Coalition, the MML program teaches couples how to be better communicators, gain knowledge, and build relationship skills to transform their marriage.  It is the goal of the program to train couples throughout the Diocese to become leaders of MML groups in their parishes. 

Stanislaus County

Children’s Health Initiative
Catholic Charities works with area churches, community centers, hospitals, school districts and other organizations to locate, register and maintain eligible children on Medi-Cal, Healthy Families or Healthy Kids programs.

Mission for Marriage for Life (MML)
Through a grant from the California Healthy Marriages Coalition, the MML program teaches couples how to be better communicators, gain knowledge, and build relationship skills to transform their marriage.  It is the goal of the program to train couples throughout the Diocese to become leaders of MML groups in their parishes.