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 Detroit, Michigan 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 Peru 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 Chicago, Illinois 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