The South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families is again partnering with Men's Wearhouse for the retailer's 11th annual National Suit Drive. The center is one of nearly 200 nationwide nonprofit organizations to benefit from the campaign, which provides professional clothing for men re-entering the workforce. [More]

University of South Carolina Professor Ronald Pitner, PhD, recently joined the Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina Board of Trustees. Pitner joined the faculty of the College of Social Work in 2009, where he is also associate dean for curriculum, director of the I. DeQuincey Newman Institute for Peace and Social Justice, and affiliate faculty for the Research Consortium on Children and Families. [More]

The Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina has announced its 2018 Collaboration for Ministry Initiative (CMI) grants totaling $95,000 to five organizations. The Initiative was established in 2003 with the intention to engage, support and sustain the ministries of Catholic Women Religious in South Carolina. These ministries have been responsible for establishing schools, hospitals and social service programs that have served hundreds of thousands of people over the years. [More]

The annual Father’s Day appeal and Reel Connection campaign for the South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families took on added excitement this year with board member and professional angler Davy Hite hosting a once-in a lifetime fishing trip for one father and child. The drawing was part of the Reel Connection campaign to promote the importance of dads spending quality time with children. [More]

The Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina will honor PASOs, an organization that supports Latino communities with education, advocacy and leadership development, with the Leadership in Diversity award and South Carolina state representative Neal Collins with the Legislative Champion award at the 2018 Leadership in Diversity & Legislative Champion Awards Presentation at the foundation’s offices. [More]

The South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families has a mission to reduce child poverty through father engagement. It is the hub of a unique statewide network of program centers and satellite offices serving fathers and families in every county of the state. Several of its fatherhood programs received media coverage around Father’s Day and Tom Keith, president and CEO of the Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina, wrote a guest column for The State about the importance of fathers. [More]

On June 5, raids occurred at Corso's Flower and Garden Center in Sandusky and Castalia, Ohio, in Erie County. This area is a part of the Diocese of Toledo, the neighbor to the Diocese of Cleveland. One hundred fourteen of the migrants who worked at this facility were arrested and are being detained. Many of those who are now in the detention facilities have children and are members of parish communities. Please let your legislators know that the actions of ICE were inhumane and that there are more compassionate ways to respond, including comprehensive immigration reform. [More]

A Father’s Place, which is a program of the South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families, is working with a shelter in Myrtle Beach to help men served by the shelter reconnect with their children. WBTW News13 spotlighted the partnership with New Directions and the work A Father’s Place is doing in Myrtle Beach. [More]

Sister Judith Ann Karam, CSA, congregational leader for the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine, will be inducted into the Ohio Hospital Association (OHA) Health Care Hall of Fame at the annual OHA recognition dinner June 5 in Columbus. The OHA Hall of Fame honors men and women who have made extraordinary contributions to the delivery of health care for Ohioans. [More]

The House of Representatives recently introduced its version of the 2018 Farm Bill reauthorization (H.R. 2). The bill proposes significant changes to domestic nutrition programs, which could result in up to 2 million people losing access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Your voice is needed as the House is set to vote on the bill as early as next week. [More]