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Our Programs
Basic Needs Emergency Services
helps those who wonder how they will meet their most basic needs. We embrace each family with a plan to achieve self-sufficiency, giving back some of the choices that they
lost along the way. Information and referral services are provided to all who contact our staff, and when funds are available, we provide food, fuel and rent/mortgage assistance.
Parenting Programs
An array of parenting programs engage at-risk families in developing safe, nurturing environments for children. Typically, they focus on economic self-reliance, parenting skills,
household and budget skills, accessing medical care, housing, childcare, and addressing any other barriers the family might have.
Young Parent Program provides counseling and home visits to pregnant moms and young parents.
Healthy Families offers home visits and group activities to young, first-time parents.
Fathers Support Services teaches men to become actively, positively engaged in the lives of their children.
Parent Aide provides home visits from a parenting mentor to families involved with the Department of Children & Families.
Education Programs
The Education Center offers GED preparation and skills training for
out-of-school youth. While a High School Equivalency Diploma is the goal, teachers help students see themselves as learners, not dropouts.
GED classes include
Youthworks, Teenstart, and the Education and Parenting Skills Center .
OfficeWorks is an employment training and job placement program for individuals referred from the Department of Transitional Assistance.
Asian Center teaches English to immigrants and refugees from countries such as Cambodia and Vietnam. Volunteer teachers are supported by a staff social worker who addresses issues such as medical care and employment.
Child Care provides children with activities that are matched to their developmental level, and opportunities to experience success each day, the learning occurs naturally and with it a positive self-image. The Child Care Centers are licensed by the Department of Early Education and Care and accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
Counseling Programs
Family Counseling and Guidance Center is a professional, mental health clinic that provides a comprehensive, integrated continuum of quality care for people struggling with a range of life issues.
Elder Programs
Companions to the Aging matches volunteers with home bound elders for weekly companionship visits.
You Can Help!
Become a Volunteer for Catholic Charities North! See the volunteer opportunities here or fill out the application and email it to Paul at paul_woods@ccab.org. Volunteers are needed across our programs. We provide training and supervision.
Friendly adults are needed for long-term matches with home bound elders for weekly companionship visits.
Teachers, substitutes and aides are needed to teach English to adults. You don’t need to speak a language other than English.
Receptionists are needed in Lynn for half a day, once a week.
Loving adults are needed to read to children during the day at a Catholic Charities day care center in Lynn or Peabody.
Adults with all kinds of professional expertise are needed to partner with Catholic Charities. Contact the office to discuss other potential volunteer partnerships. Call us at (781) 593-2312.
Annual Reports
Catholic Charities North's 2011 Annual Report
Catholic Charities North's 2010 Annual Report
Catholic Charities North's 2009 Annual Report
Catholic Charities North's 2008 Annual Report
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Our Locations
Lynn
55 Lynn Shore Drive
Lynn, MA 01902
Phone: (781) 593-2312
Lynn Child Care Center
37 North Federal Street
Lynn, MA 01905
Phone: (781) 598-2759
Salem
280 Washington St.
Salem, MA 01970
Phone: (978) 740-6923
Gloucester
60 Prospect St.
Gloucester, MA 01930
Phone: (978) 283-3055
Danvers
Family Counseling and Guidance Center
152 Sylvan Street
2nd Floor
Danvers, MA 01923
Phone: (978) 774-6820
Peabody
Peabody Child Care
13 Pulaski Street
Peabody, MA 01960
Phone: (978) 532-6860
Who We Serve
Catholic Charities North served 17,000 people last year
Basic Needs For Hard Times
10,000 people received help with their basic needs
4,930 Bought food with a grocery store certificate
384 received assistance to avoid homelessness
489 picked up diapers and wipes for their infants
Families Strengthened
263 teens enhanced their parenting skills
842 children enrolled in childcare programs
284 visited regularly by Parent Aide mentor
218 men accessed Fathers Support Services
Raising sights through education
170 enrolled in GED preparation classes
55 achieved a High School Equivalency Diploma
23 enrolled in a skills training class
20 jobless individuals placed in employment
Catholic Charities North volunteers reaching out to the community
101 immigrants and refugees enrolled in English classes and received other social services
28 elders received weekly companionship visits
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