FY 2019 Adrian Dominican Ministry Trust Member Initiatives The Congregation Grants Committee of the Adrian experiencing domestic violence in Lenawee Dominican Ministry Trust approved $739,300 for County homes. The Ministry Trust funds will the following 29 Member Initiatives for the fscal assist clients in the development of individualized year 2019. These projects refect the Mission and safety plans based on current and future Vision of the Adrian Dominican Sisters. relationship needs. Survivors and their children will learn to build their resilience and re-establish Angela House violence-free households on the solid foundation Houston, Texas of improved mental, social, and emotional well- Maureen O’Connell, OP, Executive Director being. Angela House provides safe, drug- and violence- free transitional housing and holistic programs Catholic Committee of the South for women re-entering society after incarceration. Avondale Estates, Georgia With the Ministry Trust grant, the staff at Angela Mary Priniski, OP, Staff and Board Member House will continue to assist them as they re- Gathering for Mission, a program of the Catholic enter society. Each participant will have access Committee of the South, seeks to empower church to structured case management to help address leadership, clerics, and lay leaders; to embrace the factors that can lead to homelessness and re- dialogue with voices often unheard; and to address incarceration. Angela House will organize weekly social justice issues that often cannot be resolved programs to ensure an effective, evidence-based at the local level. The organization’s purpose is to curriculum and coordinate individual outside stand in solidarity with those who are struggling appointments. to claim respect and human dignity. Gathering for Mission is patterned after Pope Francis’ Capuchin Soup Kitchen encouragement of the faithful to be a church of , the peripheries, a church listening to the voices Nancyann Turner, OP, Staff Member of those who are marginalized and searching out Situated in a poverty-stricken area of Detroit, the perspectives beyond those of people who gather Capuchin Soup Kitchen offers meals to people in for Sunday worship. need. The Rosa Parks Children’s Peace Garden is in its courtyard. The Ministry Trust grant will Centro Santa Catalina give youth the opportunity to deepen their sense Juárez/Mexico of Earth community by emphasizing the nexus Maureen Gallagher, OP, Director of Marketing between gardening and good nutrition. The Centro Santa Catalina was founded to empower teenage student managers will collaborate with women and children through educational, residents of River Bend Towers senior living nutritional, entrepreneurial, and life-skills complex to create a community garden. Young- activities that relieve severe economic hardships adult garden coordinators and student managers and social marginalization. Ministry Trust funds will have the opportunity to develop leadership will be used to promote healthy physical and skills such as accountability, respect for co- mental development and improved immune workers, and teamwork. response by providing one nutritional meal per day for up to 100 children engaged in the Homework Catherine Cobb Safe House, Help program. Nutrition and lifestyle workshops Operation Safety Net will focus on meal-planning, exercise, and Adrian, Michigan hygiene. Aneesah McNamee, OP, Board Member Catherine Cobb Safe House is the only shelter and safe haven for women and their children Child Advocacy Center, Catholic Charities Dominican Center for Religious Development of Jackson, Lenawee, and Hillsdale Counties Farmington Hills, Michigan Adrian, Michigan Anneliese Sinnott, OP, Board Member Pam Millenbach, OP, Staff For many years, the Dominican Center for The Child Advocacy Center provides a single Religious Development has trained spiritual forensic interview in a child-friendly site, reducing directors and offered programs for enrichment to trauma and preventing re-victimization of children the wider faith communities. With the Ministry suspected to have suffered severe sexual and/ Trust grant, the Board members will strengthen the or severe physical abuse. Ministry Trust funds annual Spiritual Directors Colloquium program. will enable the Lenawee County Child Advocacy Dominican High Schools Preaching Conference Center to cover key staff positions and secure a San Rafael, California pool of backup personnel to prevent interruption Mary Soher, OP, Director of services. Grant funds also will provide National The Dominican High Schools Preaching Children’s Alliance evaluation tools to ensure the Conference offers students the opportunity to highest quality of services at the Lenawee County receive ongoing formation in the Dominican site. charism. The Ministry Trust grant funds materials Con/Vida: Popular Arts of the Americas for the presenters and travel expenses for student Detroit, Michigan participants. Ministry Trust funds also allow the Barbara Cervenka, OP, Co-Director conference to offer scholarships to disadvantaged Con/Vida works primarily with Brazilian and students eager to participate. Peruvian artists who live in limited fnancial Friends in Solidarity with South Sudan circumstances. The goal of Con/Vida is to give Washington, D.C. voice to the artists and to validate and popularize Durstyne Farnan, OP, Board Member their work within our culture. Con/Vida promotes Friends in Solidarity with South Sudan supports traveling arts exhibits to educate and inform the empowerment of citizens in this newly North American audiences about the history and established African nation by working in culture of common people of and Brazil. collaboration with the Catholic Health Training The Ministry Trust grant provides rent for space Institute. The Ministry Trust grant will provide to house the artists’ works in a central Detroit full funding to support six students for year one location. of a three-year nursing program to train South Covenant Community Care Sudanese women as certifed midwives and Detroit, Michigan registered nurses. Mary Jane Lubinski, OP, Board Member Gianna House With the Ministry Trust grant, Covenant Eastpointe, Michigan Community Care will expand its services by Theresa Mayrand, OP, Co-Director providing behavioral health screening to people Gianna House provides a safe residence for in Detroit who are homeless. The outreach team pregnant teens and for teen mothers and their travels to various neighborhoods in a mobile newborns and serves as a center of comfort health services unit to assess mental health and support for all pregnant women. Most needs of men and women who live in abandoned women seeking services at Gianna House do not buildings or under highway overpasses. experience freedom, equality, and full personhood Approximately 300 clients will have an in-depth because they were denied a nurturing environment assessment and work with a substance abuse and adequate education as adolescents and now counselor to develop individual treatment plans. lack support from the fathers of their newborns. At

FY 2019 Adrian Dominican Ministry Trust Member Initiatives - page 2 Gianna House, they receive support, baby items, referrals, and fnancial assistance to help families referrals, and classes in prenatal care, personal maintain their housing or to provide families growth, and nutrition. Autumn 2018 will mark the with minor children with safe, secure, and clean beginning of a residential component, housing a transitional housing units in Adrian, Michigan. maximum of seven teen mothers and their infants Lenawee County Community Action Agency for up to one year after birthing. Adrian, Michigan Grace House Joella Miller, OP, Board Member , Lenawee County Community Action Agency Eunice Drazba, OP, Board Member offers Getting Ahead in a Just-Getting-By World, Grace House, a component of St. Leonard’s a program to help individuals in poverty to build Ministries, provides safe, drug- and violence-free their resources in a productive manner. With transitional housing and holistic programs for Ministry Trust funding, the workshop will be women re-entering society after incarceration. The available to assist individuals as they deepen Ministry Trust grant ensures that women receive their understanding of the causes of poverty and case management services and opportunities for its impact on individuals and communities. By job search and placement. Reuniting the women investigating their own experiences, individuals with their families in a stable environment is the will have the opportunity to design plans for their ultimate goal of the program. own economic improvement. HOPE Community Center Mercy Housing Northwest Adrian, Michigan Seattle, Washington Rosemary Abramovich, OP, Board Member Judy Byron, OP, Board Member HOPE Community Center offers members the Mercy Housing Northwest enables low-income opportunity for holistic programs and projects immigrant and refugee families to gain stable that promote health, wellness, and dignity in a housing, to fnd employment, and to remain culture of caring and sharing. The center offers healthy. The Ministry Trust grant will support excellent programs and support for life and dignity educational programs and workshops, as well as of marginalized people in Lenawee County. Men a wide variety of job readiness and workforce and women who are challenged emotionally, development programs in locations accessible to physically, or mentally have the opportunity to three affordable housing properties in South King engage with each other, staff, and volunteers County, Washington. in order to build meaningful relationships and Meta Peace Team experience laughter, friendship, collaboration, and Lansing, Michigan a healthy lifestyle. For HOPE members and their Ellen Burkhardt, OP, Board Member families, the project makes each day worthwhile, Meta Peace Team is a resurgence of the Michigan in the belief that the community is stronger when Peace Team, which was one of the frst recipients HOPE members lead meaningful lives. of Ministry Trust funds, to train and place peace Housing Help of Lenawee, Homeless Prevention teams throughout Michigan. The present project Adrian, Michigan is wider in scope, planning to offer Violence Angela Susalla, OP, Board Member De-escalation Skills Training in various U.S. Homeless Prevention in Lenawee County provides locations. The team also will train local interns to support to families and individuals in housing develop a strong connection between Meta Peace crisis who need assistance to overcome barriers to and the local peace sites as the program grows. housing and self-suffciency. Through the Housing First and Transitional Housing Projects, Ministry Trust funds will provide housing counseling,

FY 2019 Adrian Dominican Ministry Trust Member Initiatives - page 3 Michigan Interfaith Voices, Power to Thrive women and their families struggling to meet their Genesee County, Michigan children’s needs. PREPARES helps marginalized Cheryl Liske, OP, Staff households become more resilient through Power to Thrive will organize the citizens of direct service, vital support, and the opportunity Genesee County to exact county-wide changes in to become more accomplished parents. The procedures and outcomes for youthful offenders. Ministry Trust grant funds PREPARES en Realizing that detention in adult correctional español in a diocese that has a very large Hispanic facilities is detrimental to youths’ moral, community, disadvantaged by lack of education, educational, and overall human development, unemployment, and migrancy. Power to Thrive seeks to use civil citations, which are more in keeping with the community, school- Resurrection Home, Inc. based Restorative Justice model. Beattyville, Kentucky Mary Katherine Drouin, OP, Board Member Northwest Detroit Youth Coalition Through the Grandmothers Helping Grandmothers Detroit, Michigan program offered by Resurrection Home, Inc., Ellen Schmitz, OP, Board Member grandmothers who are raising their grandchildren The Northwest Detroit Youth Coalition sponsors receive support and encouragement from one two month-long summer camps for youth ages another. The grant funds a monthly support 3 to 16. The Ministry Trust grant provides funds group for the grandmothers that nurtures, assists, for a part-time staff person to coordinate and and enriches their lives and the lives of those in manage the summer camp programs for children their charge. Group activities for the children living in Detroit neighborhoods that suffer from normalize their lives and provide respite for blight, drugs, and violence. Camp experiences their grandmothers. These activities include feld offer participants the opportunity to learn skills trips for the grandchildren and opportunities for and experience the value of reverencing life and bonding among the grandparent caregivers and respecting one another. among their young charges. Peace Education Foundation River Raisin Institute Miami Shores, Florida Monroe, Michigan Anne Liam Lees, OP, Board Member Patricia Benson, OP, Board Member The Foundation’s Peace Education Initiative Today’s youth will be greatly affected by climate with Dominican Family in Latin America change and are the future caretakers of Earth. works in collaboration with the Confederation A goal of the Climate Literacy Program is to of Dominican Sisters in Latin America and the educate young people regarding care of Earth. Caribbean to teach confict resolution techniques Support from the Ministry Trust grant ensures that and violence prevention strategies to Dominican youth living in the Great Lakes region will have teachers and pastoral leaders in Argentina and educational resources to teach them to protect the . The skills include bird habitats, remove invasive species, preserve community-building, anger management, wildfowers and prairie grasses, and maintain communication, and peer mediation. a healthy watershed region. Youth in southern PREPARES, Michigan counties will learn positive responses to Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Yakima the challenges and needs of creation in crisis. The Yakima, Washington Institute will begin a partnership with Lenawee Sharon Park, OP, Executive Director County, extending the program beyond Monroe PREPARES, the Pregnancy and Parenting Support County for the frst time. Initiative, enables parishes in Washington State to reverence life by entering into relationships with FY 2019 Adrian Dominican Ministry Trust Member Initiatives - page 4 St. Ann Place St. Margaret Mary Parish West Palm Beach, Florida Winter Park, Florida Patricia Leonard, OP, Associate Director Rosemary Finnegan, OP, Staff Member Staff members at St. Ann Place provide access Sustainable Initiatives for Haiti is a project of St. to safe and secure temporary housing for men Margaret Mary Parish. With the Ministry Trust and women who are homeless and preparing grant, the parish supports two initiatives. One for or recovering from surgical procedures, or project will establish two additional women’s those requiring emergency placement due to banks. The other will strengthen the Seniors Food injury. The Ministry Trust grant helps provide the Program by purchasing, storing, and delivering accommodations and prescription medications for nutritional food to remote locations where people those who are ill. live without refrigeration or to storage sites for bulk foods. St. Dominic Community Outreach Ministry, Parish Council of Nurses Southwest Chicago San Francisco, California Public Assistance to Deliver Shelter Judith Benkert, OP, Volunteer Chicago, Illinois The Ministry Trust has provided funding for a Norine Burns, OP, Volunteer new project under the umbrella of St. Dominic Southwest Chicago Homeless Service is Community Outreach. Mind the Gap is designed committed to helping people who are homeless to provide case management services for people and housing-insecure and advocating on behalf who are homeless and needy seniors who of those who are homeless. The Ministry Trust experience signifcant gaps in their ability to attain funding provides frst month’s rent assistance essential medical services. The Ministry Trust or housing application fees to those seeking grant will strengthen advocacy and assistance in permanent housing. A generous portion of the navigating the complicated and confusing social grant is allocated to female-headed households. service system and initiate a data-gathering system ♦♦♦ that will assist in medical care and support. A grant of $14,800 was approved for the following St. Kateri Center of Chicago Chapter Initiative for the fscal year 2019. Chicago, Illinois JoAnn Fleischaker, OP, Dominican Midwest Mission Chapter Leadership Circle Member Chicagoland is home to more than 511,000 St. Kateri Center serves as a meeting place for undocumented immigrants. Members of the a Native American youth leadership group that Dominican Midwest Mission Chapter retain their comes together with a good mind, kahiwiyo, commitment to walk with immigrants through to make a positive contribution to the urban court watching and peaceful prayer outside Native American community and to work for Broadview Detention Center. The ministry has the betterment of all urban Native Americans. expanded to include monthly visits to the Dodge Community members with expertise in beadwork Detention Center in Wisconsin and assistance to and traditional dance assist the youth in preparing the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky. Through for powwows and other cultural presentations. Court Watch, Sisters are present and maintain Youth also are trained to educate non-Native records in court for approximately 1,200 detainees students and teachers about current Native topics. each year. The Ministry Trust grant makes one The Ministry Trust grant will allow St. Kateri month’s rent available to houses of hospitality Center to maintain the part-time Native American where immigrant people are welcomed and where Youth Mentor position. Chapter members often volunteer.

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