Rita Lungwitz, a member of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, earned honors as Catholic Charities’ Queen Bee Woman of the Year in recognition of being the top fundraiser in the organization’s recently completed fundraising campaign to support its shelter operations. Five Queen...

In working with families who have experienced domestic violence, our team at Harbor House has learned that what defines success is as unique as each individual helped and, sometimes, even success can be tinged with heartbreak. The road to success is not always pretty....

For Sedi Babaei, the dream of coming to America was planted as a teen and blossomed into reality a lifetime later. As a teenager in Iran, her American-born teachers taught her to be proficient in English, launching her dream of immigrating. After she and her husband,...

The name tells only part of the story. Harbor House Domestic Violence Shelter does so much more than shelter survivors and their families escaping domestic violence. The Catholic Charities ministry helps thousands of survivors who do not even step foot in the shelter,...

It was a year of continual loss for Bianca in 2019. Her sister died in May. She gave birth to a premature son in mid-July, only to lose him Sept. 26. Three days later and on her birthday, she was evicted from her Section 8 housing, her mother took her two older...