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Our Impact: Spotlight on Community Partnerships

February 1, 2023 |

in 2022 We collaborated with over 150 partnering agencies and organizations, who helped us reach those in need of compassionate social services in their local communities. 

Pictured: Catholic Charities staff partner with the Food Bank for
Central and Northeast Missouri to collect food for the annual One-for-One
Food and Fund drive at Orscheln’s in Jefferson City, Missouri.

We deeply value the relationships we have with the community partners who help us interweave a network of care for our clients.  

In 2022 our community partners helped us establish the Mid-Missouri Self-Management of Blood Pressure (Mid-MO SMBP) task force to address hypertension, provided over 300 Afghan evacuees a warm and culturally familiar meal after we received them at the airport to begin resettlement, supported our Catholic Charities Food Pantry and our desire to help neighbors find food security with nutrient-rich produce, dairy, and proteins, and even helped one of our programs find emergency office space after water damage prevented us from accessing our Columbia location. 

While the fruit of these partnerships is borne out in our work with our clients, we have also enjoyed the relationships with case managers, program coordinators, and community members with a passion for caring for others. Experiencing the connectedness of a community in service to others has inspired our staff – we find ourselves grateful for the opportunity to host these community partners at our yearly Community Resource Fair in the spring and participate in events like Project Homeless Connect in the fall.  

We look forward to expanding collaborative efforts, growing our agency reach in communities hungry for care, and finding inspiration and motivation in the colleagues we work with in 2023. 

We’re especially grateful to the SSM St. Mary’s Foundation, City of Refuge, The Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri, and Mid America Bank – who’s support has gone above-and-beyond to help us provide key services in 2022.  

We look forward to expanding collaborative efforts, growing our agency reach in communities hungry for care, and finding inspiration and motivation in the colleagues we work with in 2023.