by admin | Jul 29, 2019 | Monthly E-Newsletter
Shortly before she graduated from college this spring, Anna Haydock got the chance to paint an inspirational sign as a gift for her 2-year-old daughter.Its message reads: Beautiful Girl, You were made to do HARD things, so BELIEVE in yourself “I made it specifically...
by admin | May 6, 2019 | Monthly E-Newsletter
Earning a college degree as a single parent is hard work, so the Uplifting Parents Program likes to add some fun to the process with fantastic family activities planned and led by the program’s Peer UP Advisory Council. One recent Peer UP activity included an...
by admin | Mar 12, 2019 | Monthly E-Newsletter
Lakota Circles of Hope prevention curriculum is now being offered to students in Rapid City middle schools thanks to a partnership between Catholic Social Services (CSS) and Rural America Initiatives (RAI). Ateyape Wicozani, a RAI program, staff received training in...
by admin | Feb 7, 2019 | Monthly E-Newsletter
Dani will graduate with a surgical technology degree from Western Dakota Technology in May, about 20 years after she first enrolled as a college student. Her second college experience came in 2011, following a stint as a U.S. Army medic, when she earned a bachelor’s...
by admin | Jan 4, 2019 | Monthly E-Newsletter
The weather cooperated with sunshine and 60-degree temperatures on Nov. 20 and Dec. 11 as a teams of Catholic Social Services volunteers repaired Wilma Blacksmith’s mobile home and several others that were damaged in a Pine Ridge Reservation hailstorm last summer....
by admin | Jan 4, 2019 | Monthly E-Newsletter
Staff and volunteers of CSS were able to attend a national disaster response conference due to a recent grant from Catholic Charities USA. The Applied Institute for Disaster Excellence (AIDE) conference is a “by the network, for the network” training that...
