FY 2018 Adrian Dominican Ministry Trust Member Initiatives The Congregation Grant Committee of the Adrian stand in solidarity with those who are struggling Dominican Ministry Trust approved $513,350 for to claim respect and human dignity. Gathering for the following 24 Member Initiatives for the fiscal Mission is patterned after Pope Francis’ urging year 2018. These projects reflect the Mission and the faithful to be a church of the peripheries, a Vision of the Adrian Dominican Sisters. church listening to the voices of those who are marginalized and searching out perspectives Angela House beyond those of people who gather for Sunday Houston, Texas worship. Maureen O’Connell, OP, Executive Director Centro Latino of Shelbyville, Inc. With the Ministry Trust grant, the staff at Angela Shelbyville, Kentucky House will continue to assist formerly incarcerated Patricia Reno, OP, Executive Director women as they re-enter society. Each participant in the program will join in weekly groups The Ministry Trust grant awarded to Centro Latino coordinated by a licensed therapist to focus on of Shelbyville, Inc., will fund expanded programs issues such as shame and to assist in their re-entry and services for the transient Latino community in into society. Each woman will develop a service the Shelbyville area. Primarily, residents will learn plan with her substance abuse case manager, who basic English and various life skills. A monthly will assess her progress through participation in women’s meeting, which provides childcare and a 12-step program, interviews, and daily personal a hot lunch, enables participants to expand their interactions with residents. capabilities through lively interaction with their peers. A reading and math camp for children helps Capuchin Soup Kitchen to maintain basic skills during the summer months. Detroit, Michigan Nancyann Turner, OP, Staff Member Con/Vida: Popular Arts of the Americas Detroit, Michigan Situated in a poverty-stricken area of Detroit, the Barbara Cervenka, OP, Co-Director Capuchin Soup Kitchen offers meals to people in need. The Rosa Parks Children’s Peace Garden Con/Vida works primarily with Brazilian and is in its courtyard. The Ministry Trust grant will Peruvian artists who live in limited financial give children the opportunity to plant and tend the circumstances. The goal of Con/Vida is to give vegetable and flower gardens and to cook simple voice to the artists and to validate and popularize dishes for their families. The young adults will their work within our culture. The Ministry have the opportunity to develop leadership skills Trust grant provides rent for space to house the such as accountability, respect for co-workers, and artists’ works in a central Detroit location. Con/ teamwork. Vida promotes traveling arts exhibits to educate and inform North American audiences about the Catholic Committee of the South history and culture of common people of Peru and Avondale Estates, Georgia Brazil. Mary Priniski, OP, Staff and Board Member Covenant Community Care Gathering for Mission, a program of the Catholic Detroit, Michigan Committee of the South, seeks to empower church Mary Jane Lubinski, OP, Board Member leadership, clerics, and lay leaders; to embrace dialogue with voices often unheard; and to address With the Ministry Trust grant, Covenant social justice issues that often cannot be resolved at the local level. The organization’s purpose is to Continued on next page. Ministry Trust, continued adolescents and now lack support from the fathers of their newborns. At Gianna House, they receive Community Care will provide health care services support, baby items, referrals, and classes in to people in Detroit who are homeless. Its outreach prenatal care, personal growth, and nutrition. team travels to various neighborhoods to provide medical care to men and women who live in Grace House abandoned buildings or under highway overpasses. Chicago, Illinois Transportation to the clinic also is available Eunice Drazba, OP, Board Member through the program. Grace House, a component of St. Leonard’s Dominican Center for Religious Development Ministries, provides a residence where Farmington Hills, Michigan formerly incarcerated women receive housing, Anneliese Sinnott, OP, Board Member food, and clothing. The Ministry Trust grant ensures that women receive case management For many years, the Dominican Center for services and opportunities for job search and Religious Development has trained spiritual placement. Reuniting the women with their directors and offered programs for enrichment families in a stable environment is the hope for the to the wider faith communities. With the program. Ministry Trust grant, the Board members will establish a strong online program for spiritual Housing Help of Lenawee, Homeless Prevention development and resume the Spiritual Direction Adrian, Michigan Internship Program. Both the online program Angela Susalla, OP, Board Member and the internships are designed to provide Homeless Prevention in Lenawee County provides opportunities for religious formation and adult support to families and individuals in housing faith development. crisis who need assistance to overcome barriers to Dominican High Schools Preaching Conference housing and self-sufficiency. Through the Housing San Rafael, California First and Transitional Housing Projects, Ministry Mary Soher, OP, Director Trust funds will provide housing counseling, referrals, and financial assistance to help families At the Dominican High Schools Preaching maintain their current housing or to provide Conference, students receive ongoing formation families with minor children with safe, secure, in the Dominican charism. The Ministry Trust and clean transitional housing units in Adrian, grant will fund travel expenses and materials for Michigan. the presenters. This allows the Conference to Lenawee County Community Action Agency offer additional scholarships to students eager to Adrian, Michigan participate. Joella Miller, OP, Board Member Gianna House Lenawee County Community Action Agency Eastpointe, Michigan offers “Getting Ahead in a Just-Getting-By Theresa Mayrand, OP, Co-Director World,” a program to help individuals in poverty Gianna House provides a sanctuary for pregnant to build their resources in a productive manner. adolescents and their newborns and serves as a The workshop, through funding from the center of comfort and support for all pregnant Ministry Trust grant, will be available to assist women. Most women seeking services at Gianna individuals as they deepen their understanding of House do not experience freedom, equality, and the causes of poverty and the impact of poverty full personhood because they were denied a nurturing environment and adequate education as Continued on next page. Ministry Trust, continued communication, and peer mediation. on individuals and communities. By investigating PREPARES, Catholic Charities of the Diocese their own experiences, individuals will have the of Yakima opportunity to design plans for their own economic Yakima, Washington improvement. Sharon Park, OP, Executive Director Mercy Housing Northwest PREPARES, the Pregnancy and Parenting Support Seattle, Washington Initiative, enables parishes in Washington State to Judy Byron, OP, Board Member reverence life by entering into relationships with women and their families struggling to meet their Mercy Housing Northwest enables low-income children’s needs. PREPARES helps marginalized immigrant and refugee families to gain stable households become more resilient through direct housing, to find employment, and to remain service, vital support, and the opportunity to healthy. The Ministry Trust grant will support become more accomplished parents. The Ministry educational programs and workshops, as well as Trust grant funds “PREPARES en Español” provide health and wellness resources, enabling in a diocese that has a very large Hispanic the staff to accomplish the goals of providing community, disadvantaged by lack of education, access to good housing, steady employment, and unemployment, and migrancy. good health. Resurrection Home, Inc. Northwest Detroit Youth Coalition Beattyville, Kentucky Detroit, Michigan Mary Katherine Drouin, OP, Board Member Ellen Schmitz, OP, Board Member Through the “Grandmothers Helping The Northwest Detroit Youth Coalition sponsors Grandmothers” program offered by Resurrection two month-long summer camps for children and Home, Inc., grandmothers who are raising their youth, ages 3 to 16. The Ministry Trust grant will grandchildren receive support and encouragement provide the funds for athletics and for training from each other. The grant funds activities for the in money management and healthy eating. grandmothers, who meet monthly. These activities Motivational speakers and field trips for young include field trips for their grandchildren and people living in neighborhoods suffering from opportunities for bonding among the grandparent blight, drugs, and violence will offer Detroit’s caregivers and among their young charges. participants the opportunity to learn skills and The program also provides a time and place to experience the value of reverencing life and celebrate special occasions for the grandchildren. respecting one another. River Raisin Institute Peace Education Foundation Monroe, Michigan Miami Shores, Florida Patricia Benson, OP, Board Member Anne Liam Lees, OP, Board Member Today’s youth will be greatly affected by climate The Peace Education Initiative with Dominican