Catholic Charities of Buffalo, NY, is the most comprehensive human service provider serving the eight counties of Western New York with 70 programs at 61 professionally staffed locations. In 2015, Cat...
Catholic Charities of Buffalo, NY, is the most comprehensive human service provider serving the eight counties of Western New York with 70 programs at 61 professionally staffed locations. In 2015, Catholic Charities served nearly 153,000 Western New Yorkers without regard to age, race or religious affiliation. Today's Catholic Charities leads the way for an integrated human service delivery system. Catholic Charities offers an array of programs that strive to empower individuals, children and families. Among them are comprehensive counseling services for all ages, basic emergency assistance including operating 8 food pantries, mental health services, chemical dependency treatment, educational and job readiness services, services to older adults including social adult day care, marriage counseling, foster care and adoption, immigration and refugee assistance and a variety of programs that address prevention and treatment of a number of family issues. The agency creatively partners with parents, schools, administrators, public agencies, corporations and government to bring new initiatives and cutting edge approaches to the challenges placed on individuals, families and our future. Catholic Charities is the recipient of 2015 Torch Award for Excellence in Philanthropy from the Better Business Bureau Foundation of Upstate New York. We are consistently awarded four out of four stars from Charity Navigator and we are accredited by the Council on Accreditation, an international nonprofit, human service accrediting organization.