Catholic Charities Program Highlights Last year, our 45 programs gave help and hope to thousands. Here is a small picture of some of the lives we helped to change from 2008-2009: We helped 2,300 families through our 10 Community Centers. Visit our Hurricane Recovery page to learn more about Community Centers.   Through our house rebuilding program, Operation Helping Hands, we rebuilt 47 homes last year and have rebuilt 116 homes since Hurricane Katrina. Visit the Operation Helping Hands page for more information on this innovative program.   We provided a quality pre-school education to 562 children at our 5 Head Start Centers. Go to our Child & Family section to learn more.   1,780 survivors of domestic violence took control of their lives through the New Orleans Family Justice Center, Crescent House, Project SAVE and our Sexual Assault Program. Visit our Domestic Violence Services page for more information on these four programs.   Through our Independent Living Skills Program, 461 young adults got a firm start in life after foster care. Check out the Child & Family page to learn more.   We gave a 40-lb food box to 65,000 seniors each month through our Food for Families program. Over one year, that’s 27 million pounds of food! Read more on our Food and Nutrition section.   We provided compassionate care to 125 people with disabilities each day at our 3 Adult Day Health Care Centers. Learn about each center at our Seniors page.   360 homeless people found a place to stay and help getting on their feet at our programs for the homeless: Beyond Shelter, Bridges to Self-Sufficiency, Baronne Street Transitional Housing, and our CARE Centers. Learn more on our Housing & Homelessness section.   We provided an enriching summer education and camp experience to 1,205 children at our 5 Summer Witness Camps. Visit our Child & Family section for more.   Through our ACCESS programs, St. Vincent Maternity Clinic , our Adoption Services program and Project Rachel, we helped 1,600 women receive counseling, pregnancy testing, pre-natal care, delivery and adoption services. Learn about ACCESS, St. Vincent, & Project Rachel on our Physical & Mental Health page. Read up on our Adoption Services program on the Child & Family page.   Our Deaf Action Center provided 4,560 hours of interpreting for 226 hearing-impaired people. Read more on our Physical & Mental Health page.   Through Second Harvest Food Bank, our affiliated corporation, we helped to distribute 24.7 million pounds of food to organizations that feed the hungry. Visit Second Harvest’s website here.