Family Services is a division of Catholic Charities of Baltimore, which includes nearly half of the agency's 80 programs. This hub covers volunteering opportunities for our child welfare, behavioral health, adult disability, and violence prevention programs, including Gallagher Services, St. Vincent's Villa, Safe Streets, and the Villa Maria programs.
Therapeutic Mentoring
A volunteer Therapeutic Mentor is a special visitor, a positive role model and a consistent person in a child's life. Mentors provide structured, one-to-one, strength-based relationships for youth, ages 9 to 17, who have been referred by their therapists to be in the Therapeutic Mentoring Program. Mentors may choose between school-based, residential, or community-based mentoring with matches available in Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, and Harford Counties. Mentors make at least a one-year commitment, visit their assigned child once a week, and receive special training prior to the match. Ongoing support, resources, additional training and guidance by staff are provided throughout the match. Together, mentors and mentees learn new things and have fun!! You can get started simply by completing an application in the Family Services Volunteer and Intern Hub.
About Us
Mission
Inspired by the Gospel mandates to love, serve and teach, Catholic Charities provides care and services to improve the lives of Marylanders in need.
Vision
Cherishing the Divine Within, we are committed to a Maryland where each person has the opportunity to reach his or her God-given potential.
Values
To Love, To Serve, To Teach and To Work for Justice
Who We Are
What We Do
We provide three categories of service:
- St. Vincent's Villa, Villa Maria Schools, and Villa Maria Behavioral Health provide state-of-the-art behavioral health, child welfare, special education, early childhood and family-development services. Known for creativity, innovation, excellence, and our nationally-recognized Family-Provider Partnership, our programs focus on building and unifying families and helping families and individuals of all ages to achieve healthier lives.
- Gallagher Services provides an array of excellent services, care, training, and therapy for adults with intellectual disabilities.
- Safe Streets Baltimore (Sandtown-Winchester and Brooklyn posts) provides evidence-based violence prevention and interruption services in West Baltimore.
Thank you
Thank you to Zapier for helping us expand our capacity to recruit and retain volunteers by making our team extra efficient. :)
