Causes: Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations, Emergency Assistance, Homeless & Housing, Homeless Shelters, Human Service Organizations, Human Services

Mission: Catholic charities stabilizes families in crisis by providing food at no cost at our daily bread food pantry. The agency operates two 24/7 shelters, one for the victims of domestic violence and one for homeless families. Also provided is utility assitance for low income families. Catholic charities strengthens families by providing counseling services at reduced fees, by providing day services for individuals who suffer from intellectual and developmental disabilities allowing them to stay in their family homes, by providing classes in healthy relationships, by providing foster grandparents who work in the school districts mentoring children, by providing the mount, a transitional housing for homeless families and survivors of domestic violence and in immigration services helping documented individuals and families.

Programs: Counseling - provide low-income individual family and marital counseling.

adult day services program - provide daily care and supervision for adults with intellectural and developmental disabilities; offer daily living, recreation, health counseling, and transportation to the center.

harbor house - provide temporary shelter, counseling, education, outreach and advocacy to women and children who are victims of domestic violence; outreach services extend to the district attorney's office, municipal court, and the wichita and el dorado, kansas, department of children and families.

other program services: foster grandparents, immigration services, the anthony family shelter, wellington services (in sumner county), the mount, and the help center and southeast kansas social services.