UP graduate earns LPN degree
Congratulations to Kendallyn Wounded Face, an Uplifting Parent participant who earned her Licensed Practical Nursing degree from Western Dakota Tech in December 2020! Kendallyn joins a growing number of single parents who have successfully completed a post-secondary...
CSS receives Sr. Marmion memorials
CSS receives Sr. Marmion memorials Memorial gifts for Sr. Marmion Howe, OSB, one of the first executive directors of Catholic Social Services who died Nov. 26, 2020 at the age of 100, will benefit Catholic Social Services. The Benedictine sister was known and loved...
Area Family Celebrates 2 Generations of CSS Adoption
Adoption is always a family affair, but for Matt and Carrie Bunkowske it has become a family tradition, too. Matt was adopted in 1979 as an infant through Catholic Social Services. His sister, Melanie, arrived four years later when Jill and Duane Bunkowske adopted...
Suicide Prevention (QPR) in a Covid World: What is a school to do?
Suicide Prevention (QPR) in a Covid World: What is a school to do? Online Zoom Training: December 11, 2020 | 9:30am - 11:00am It has never been more challenging to mitigate loss to disease, consider how best to meet the needs of students, and use data to make...
CSS gives help and hope during Covid closures
CSS gives help and hope during Covid closures People unable to pay their bills. Grandparents suddenly asked to provide childcare for grandchildren. Parents wondering how they would pay this month’s rent. Families struggling to put food on the table. They all found a...
19 UP moms graduate from college
19 UP moms graduate from college When Tyresha Riquelmy-Yankton was first accepted into the Uplifting Parents Program (UP) in 2019, she was hesitant about the mentoring that she would be asked to do twice each month with an UP mentor. “At first I thought, ‘I don’t need...
Prosperity Initiative Perseverance
Per·se·ver·ance: noun Persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. Tenacity. Determination. Resolve. Resolution. Dedication. Endurance. Commitment.You could add Anna Castillo’s name to that dictionary definition. Twenty years after...
UPLIFTING PARENTS helps single parents succeed
UPLIFTING PARENTS helps single parents succeed: Applications close March 14 Determination. Hard work. And the support of her Uplifting Parents mentor. Kaitlyn, the single mother of a 3-year-old toddler, credits those three ingredients with helping her earn a ...
Adoptive Families Needed
I grew up in a big family with three siblings and over twenty cousins. I was very blessed to have two parents who loved each other and each of their children. They were positive role models that I wanted to be like for my own children one day. Holidays, birthdays,...
CSS OFFERS FASD PARENTING 101 CLASSES
Monae Johnson has been parenting children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder for the past 16 years, but the FASD Parenting 101 class at Catholic Social Services she attended recently was still a great reminder that there’s always something new to learn, or relearn,...