Impact That Matters
Over 206,573 meals
Thanks to our partners at Mid-Ohio Foodbank, Ohio State, and OhioHealth who helped us serve families in 2016
Client Satisfaction
94% of Clients who are very satisfied with our services
30,384 Family Members
Family members directly impacted by our family strengthening programs.
Case Management
Our team works together with our clients to lay out a vision for a better future for our clients and their families, and we develop a plan and work toward it together using a combination of individual and family development, community assets, advocacy, and basic needs assistance. Care is given in the context of encouragement. This is a core component of our Intensive Family Services program.
Food and Emergency Assistance
Each year, Catholic Social Services provides nearly 100,000 meals and utility assistance for 1,500 families. This assistance is available through the Our Lady of Guadalupe Center in Columbus, and the St. Francis Center in Portsmouth.
Transitional Housing
Moving a mom and her small children out of shelter into a new home is a key part of keeping the family safe and helping them build a new future for themselves. This is a core component of our Pathways to Hope program.
Pathways to Hope
The Pathways to Hope program addresses homelessness and domestic violence in the Columbus, Ohio area. Pathways steps in to empower survivors of domestic violence with children by offering two years of case management. By supporting survivors and their children as they leave the homeless shelter, we help them rebuild their lives in safe homes, with stable incomes and a network of healthy, supportive relationships.
Post Adoption Services
If you are looking for information about an adoption, Catholic Social Services may be able to help.
Catholic Social Services maintains adoption files for adoptions facilitated within the Diocese of Columbus. We hold the adoption files from:
- Catholic Social Services, formerly known as the Catholic Welfare Bureau
- St. Vincent Orphanage
- St. Ann’s Maternity Home
Those looking for information regarding a past adoption may submit a request using the forms in the post-adoption information packet (PDF). To acquire baptismal use this request form.
Counselors are available for additional support during the search and reunion process.
Please contact our intake worker for more information: (614) 857-1218. Counselors are available for additional support during the search and reunion process.
Post Adoption Services
If you are looking for information about a previous adoption, we hold the adoption files from:
- Catholic Social Services, formerly known as the Catholic Welfare Bureau
- St. Vincent Orphanage
- St. Ann’s Maternity Home
“If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.” -Isaiah 58:10
Locations
COLUMBUS
197 E. Gay Street
Columbus, OH 43215
(614) 221-5891
WEST COLUMBUS
Our Lady of Guadalupe Center
409 Industry Drive
Columbus, OH 43204
(614) 340-7061
NEWARK
1031 Brice Street
Newark, OH 43055
(740) 345-2565
PORTSMOUTH
St. Francis Catholic Outreach Center
2311 Stockham Lane
Portsmouth, OH 45662
(740) 961-4020
ZANESVILLE
422 Main Street, Ste 400
P.O. Box 3446
Zanesville, OH 43702-3446
(740) 452-5057