On January 20, more than 100 friends, family members and colleagues gathered to celebrate Jim Seymour’s 46 years of service and visionary leadership as Executive Director of Catholic Community Services. His retirement celebration included the dedication of a new...
To operate and sustain the Seymour Center as a collaborative collocation space for education, health and social services, the CCS Life Fund has been established by CCS together with a group of local investors. This real estate pooled income fund creates income for the...
In 1988, the Benedictine Sisters in Mount Angel opened St. Joseph Shelter, a transitional housing program for homeless families. When the Sisters opened the Shelter, they also began to operate a food bank, and ran it out of someone’s garage over 30 years ago,...
The Catholic Community Services (CCS) Board of Directors has appointed Joshua Graves to lead the 80 year-old Salem based social services agency after Jim Seymour’s retirement in January 2020.Scott Wiegal, CCS Board Chair, said the board and administration have been...
There’s still time to invest in the new CCS Pooled Income Fund, which creates income for your lifetime and the opportunity to strengthen families, many who are facing adversity such as housing instability, hunger or raising children with special needs. Investors...
The August 1 Strong Families, Resilient Communities and World Class Education Call to Action event at the Keizer Civic Center opened to a capacity crowd of educators, social service, business and government leaders. A day-long dialogue explored building community...