Fort Wayne Office: This program has assisted 1066 people with direct financial assistance and 56 families for Christmas sponsorship during this fiscal year. More than $125,000 was spent providing direct financial assistance.

The Christmas Program for 2008 served 56 families, with a total of 203 family members, which is an increase of 21 families from 2007. This was an increase of 60%.

The Gift of Warmth program is a joint effort by Catholic Charities and NIPSCO (Northern Indiana Public Service Company). Gift of Warmth assisted 129 families with gas utility costs of over $33,000.

Emergency Food and Shelter Program assisted 60 families in providing rent and mortgage assistance to prevent eviction with a total of $18,000.

South Bend Food Pantry: served between 5,500-6,000 persons during the last 12 months.

Community Center of Caring Food Pantry, Auburn: served 2,106 different families in DeKalb County representing 7,354 individuals. This year the statistics are as follows: 508 new families representing 1,748 new individuals were added to our client files, 4,047 families were served by the food pantry representing 14,071 individuals, and estimated amount of food distributed to the public was over 148,000 pounds.

Rural Parish Outreach: Catholic Charities provided financial assistance with rent, mortgage, utility bills, food, and other material items for 120 families, totally $15,000.00.

Pregnancy — Brief Services: Case Manager has seen and assisted 49 families through brief services, as well as collaborated with the Brief Services Case Manager to assist with her clients as needed.

Fort Wayne Adoption and Pregnancy: Currently there are four families awaiting placements, two from Ethiopia, one from Korea, and one from Russia. Catholic Charities placed four infants with waiting families this past year, and worked with other birth parents who parented.

South Bend Adoption and Pregnancy: 17 women began counseling with the possible option of choosing adoption —3 made adoption plans. At present, 3 couples are waiting to travel to Ethiopia or Thailand for a total of 7 children.    

Search & Reunion: Approximately 300 calls regarding search and reunion were answered, with about 10% following through with a search request.

Fort Wayne Home Studies Program: In the 2008-2009 fiscal year, 230 studies (88% of goal) were referred, have been completed and submitted for peer review. The studies that have been completed during this time period include 77 Special Needs Adoption Studies, 88 Foster Care Studies, 15 ICPC Studies, 30 Step-Parent, 9 Relative, and 2 Private Adoption Reports.

Licensing: Catholic Charities had its child-placement licensing review by the State of Indiana in January of 2009. The agency passed its review. A license was issued through March 31, 2013.

Foster Family Support Services Program: Within the past several years, the number of foster homes licensed by the Department of Child Services has increased to 270 - 280 homes or approximately 430 individual foster parents.  The Foster Family Support Coordinator and assistant developed, compiled, and sent 10 newsletters each year to the foster parents informing them of the support group/trainings and providing them with additional newsworthy information.  From July 2008 — June 2009, 788 foster parents and 697 children attended the nine support group/trainings.  Approximately 300 foster parents and children were registered to attend the December 2008 Holiday Celebration; approximately 118 foster parents and children attended the Family Picnic in June 2009.   In the past year, the Coordinator has had telephone contact with 269 persons interested in receiving information on becoming foster parents.

Foster-Adoption-Kinship Training (FAKT) Program: Approximately 530 licensed and 230 prospective foster, adoptive and kinship care providers were serviced during this reporting period of July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009. Specific statistics for training participation for this same time period were as follows:

• 248 individuals attended Pre-service Training with 239 completing the course;
• 104 individuals attended Permanency Planning with 100% completing the course;
• 881 individuals attended in-service opportunities with 100% completing them;
• 332 individuals attended Adult and Pediatric CPR with 100% completing it;
• 306 individuals attended First Aid with 100% completing it; and
• 320 individuals attended Universal Precautions with 100% completing it.

Education Creates Hope and Opportunity (ECHO) Program: As of June 30, 2009, 135 clients were served. Of these 135 clients, 59 were referred in the first half of the school year, between August and December 2008. For the 2008-2009 school year, 16 out of 16 clients received their high school diplomas.

Fort Wayne Office: There were 385 immigration consultations were completed to provide initial guidance with an individual's immigration case; 337 Immigration applications were filed to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS); and 118 filed applications were approved by USCIS for the fiscal year. Other applications are pending.

Citizenship Classes: This year has been very successful with the offering of citizenship classes. In this period, there were 24 students who successfully completed the course. Other applications are pending.

South Bend Office: From July 1, 2008 — June 30, 2009, 180 assessments were offered and 200 families were helped with their immigration matters, answering questions, preparing and filing forms and offering support for special immigrant needs. 100 applications were filed and 7 of these applications have been approved.

Citizenship Classes — South Bend: Citizenship classes are being held for individuals and presently have three participants.

Fort Wayne: This program has assisted over 230 families in this fiscal year and performed this service over 420 times within the fiscal year.

Fort Wayne Office: Presently this program has served 72 clients this fiscal year with a current case load of 49.

South Bend Office: Presently this program is serving 15 clients on an ongoing basis.

Reception & Placement: The program received a total of 586 refugees in FY 2008-09. Most are refugees from Burma.

Health: There are many improvements in various issues of expending health screening days Medical advocates and on call medical interpretation program accomplished 1439 appointments for Infection Disease Control, 187 refugee screening at Department Of Health, 335 appointment at super shot, 594 doctor appointments in past six months.

Job Development: Approximately 1,200 refugees were served in the refugee job development program.

ESL/Education: Over 200 refugees have been served in the ESL classes offered by Catholic Charities.

Children's Cottage: In 2008/2009, we served 119 children at the center. At the end of June, 2009, we had 91 children enrolled.

Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP): RSVP in all 6 counties had over 1,083 active volunteers serving 131 different sites contributing 164,822 hours of service. The value of the volunteer hours according to the Private Sector/Points of Light is $3,337,645. RSVP of DeKalb, LaGrange, Noble, and Steuben Counties provided over 1500 back packs filled with school supplies were given to children of low income families. RSVP volunteers also made over 80 quilts for Camp Watcha Wanna Do's children who are all suffering from cancer. RSVP volunteers have also collected and is in the process of distributing over 1200 coats to those in need in our 4 county service area. RSVP volunteers have also made over 4,500 items for those in need in the community including hats, mittens, scarves, quilts/comforters, catheter bags, lap robes, walker bags, etc.

Senior AIDES Program: At the end of this fiscal year, we served 289 participants.

Villa of the Woods: We provided 7,139 days of care or 89% of our goal. During the 2008/2009 fiscal year, we served a total of 25 individuals.