Press Releases – St. Catherine's Center for Children

St. Catherine’s Center for Children, Albany FireWolves Announce Three-Year Partnership

November 22, 2024

ALBANY, N.Y. – Today, St. Catherine’s Center for Children and the Albany FireWolves, the Capital Region’s professional box lacrosse franchise, announced that they have officially entered into a three-year partnership. Since their arrival in Albany, the FireWolves have made it a point of emphasis to engage with local non-profits, schools and other community organizations to support the mission of those groups while spreading the game of lacrosse to those who have not had the opportunity to experience it.

St. Catherine’s Joins with CARES of NY, Albany County, City of Albany to Launch Albany Navigates

October 28, 2024

ALBANY, N.Y. – Today, a joint press conference was held at the Albany Public Library, on Washington Ave., to announce the public launch of the Albany Navigates Health & Housing program – a joint effort between host program CARES of NY, Inc., St. Catherine’s Center for Children, Albany County, the City of Albany, the Homeless and Travelers Aid Society and Joseph’s House & Shelter. The program, which officially started in June of this year, aims to address the growing issue of homelessness and adjacent issues in Albany County by bringing together organizations already working to end housing insecurity and combining their efforts. Albany County and the City of Albany are funding the program by investing $1.8 million over three years.

Albany County Awards $150K Grant to Support St. Catherine’s Pathways Program

September 19, 2024

ALBANY, N.Y. – St. Catherine’s Center for Children was recently awarded a $150,000 American Recovery Plan Act grant from the Albany County Community Development Grant Program to support the agency’s Pathways to Health & Housing, a street outreach program serving at-risk people who typically do not have access to or seek primary and behavioral healthcare services on their own.

St. Catherine’s to Host Elvis Tribute Concert at Albany’s The Egg

August 1, 2024

ALBANY, N.Y. – St. Catherine’s Center for Children, a Capital Region-based, comprehensive human services organization, announced today that it will host an Elvis tribute concert, “Elvis: Good Rockin’ Tonight” at 7 PM on November 16, 2024, at The Egg in downtown Albany. The show, which will be held in Hart Theater, will star David Lee, one of the nation’s pre-eminent Elvis tribute artists, and feature Dan Fontaine, one of New England’s premier Elvis tribute artists, and his Memphis Sun Mafia band. Tickets are already on sale through The Egg’s website.

St. Catherine’s Awarded $20,000 KeyBank Grant to Support Award-winning Kinship Care Program

July 24, 2024

ALBANY, N.Y. – Recently, the KeyBank Foundation announced that St. Catherine’s Center for Children is the recipient of a $20,000 grant to support the continued work of its award-winning Kinship Care program and aid local low- to moderate-income families. The program provides kinship families with resources and programming to help them thrive. Kinship is a subset of foster care in which family members or close family friends assume the responsibility for and care of a child that has been removed from their biological parents, as an alternative to traditional foster care placement.

Albany County Bar Foundation Awards $5,000 Grant to St. Catherine’s

April 22, 2024

ALBANY, N.Y. – St. Catherine’s Center for Children was recently awarded a $5,000 grant from the Albany County Bar Foundation to support St. Catherine’s Access and Visitation program. This program – one of many under St. Catherine’s Family Services umbrella – offers supervised visitation in a safe and supportive space for a non-custodial parent to visit with their child.

St. Catherine’s Earns Reaccreditation: Affirming Excellence in Human Services

March 13, 2024

ALBANY, N.Y. – St. Catherine’s Center for Children, a Capital Region-based, comprehensive human services organization, recently achieved reaccreditation with the Council on Accreditation. St. Catherine’s completed a nearly year-long internal review process which culminated in an independent and objective verification against standards of best practice. This review assessed every program, department and process within the Agency to ensure complete compliance with COA standards.

$25,000 ARPA Grant from City of Kingston Supports St. Catherine’s Foster Care & Kinship Programs

February 29, 2024

ALBANY, N.Y. – St. Catherine’s Center for Children was recently awarded a $25,000 American Rescue Plan Act grant from the City of Kingston Nonprofit Services program to support the agency’s Foster Care and Kinship Care programs which serve children removed from parental care in a therapeutic home setting in the Hudson Valley. This grant also supports the recruitment and retention of foster families and provides respite services and more for kinship families.unity, including continued recruitment and training of foster families, identifying and supporting kinship families and promoting available services.

$7,500 Pictotte Foundation Grant Supports St. Catherine’s Kinship & Foster Care Programs

February 20, 2024

ALBANY, N.Y. – Recently, St. Catherine’s Center for Children was awarded a $7,500 grant – by The John D. Picotte Family Foundation – to support the agency’s Kinship & Foster Care Outreach and Wrap Around – Support Initiative. This grant is given to organizations that improve the quality of life in the Capital Region, with emphasis on health, education, the arts and housing.

These funds will enable the Kinship Care and Foster Care programs to continue providing wrap-around services which include the supply of food, school supplies, clothing and other essentials needed to support the program’s children and families. In addition, this grant funds St. Catherine’s direct outreach in the community, including continued recruitment and training of foster families, identifying and supporting kinship families and promoting available services.

$7,500 Grant Supports St. Catherine’s Pathways to Health and Housing

February 12, 2024

ALBANY, N.Y. – Recently, St. Catherine’s Center for Children was awarded a $7,500 grant – by the Review Foundation – to support the agency’s Pathways to Health and Housing program. This grant is given to organizations that improve the quality of life in the Capital Region, with emphasis on health, education, social services and the arts.