Empowering CHANGE | Transforming LIVES
As we embark on the next 75 years, together with our community we look forward to helping to educate and bring change to Columbus. Throughout the next twelve months please join us as we provide you with a visual storyline of where we have been, and perspectives from our clients on where we are going.
Join us online as these stories unfold, and help us by attending our 75-year marquis event.
Together we will empower change to transform lives.
Independent Seniors. Thriving Families.
Catholic Social Services is a multi-service agency that has been serving families and seniors in central and southern Ohio for 75 years. Catholic Social Services helps working-poor families stabilize and become self-sufficient through case management, training, and emergency assistance. We help low-income seniors age with grace and independence through supportive services and community-impact opportunities.
Catholic Social Services has responded to the rapidly growing senior population—serving 50% more seniors in five years through innovation, more effective technology solutions, volunteer engagement and partnership. Similarly, CSS has renewed its focus on helping working poor people who are trying to build better lives for themselves, but who are balancing the complicated and interrelated challenges of poverty. CSS helps clients use their own strengths and leverage the support of the entire community to help reach their goals. In 2018, Catholic Social Services’ 14 programs help 35,000 people in our 23-county region, and we partnered with hundreds of corporations, public entities, nonprofits and human service providers to help more CSS clients reach their full potential.
Catholic Social Services is accredited by the Council on Accreditation and the Better Business Bureau to illustrate our commitment to best-practice social services and sound business management. We are a research partner with the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities at the University of Notre Dame because we are committed to evidence-based practice. We are a member agency of Catholic Charities USA and the Human Service Chamber of Franklin County.
We invite you to join us in serving people in ways that help seniors live independent, connected lives and families thrive!
Impact in Action
Gerry feels safe knowing she has reliable transportation to her dialysis appointments.
“Using the Transportation Program, ‘gives my daughter peace of mind,’ Gerry says. ‘She doesn’t want me driving in [winter] weather.’”
35,232
People served in 2019.
200,000
Annual volunteer hours.
95%
Client satisfaction rate.
Impact Stories
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You Are Not Alone: Providing Hope for Seniors in the Midst of Overwhelming Isolation
In this pandemic, we are all experiencing amplified feelings of loneliness and isolation, but these experiences are, perhaps, felt most acutely by senior citizens— a highly vulnerable group that has been advised to stay at home and out of harm’s way because they are particularly susceptible to COVID-19. With many senior centers closed and organized […]
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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) 353-3185
ZANESVILLE
422 Main Street, Ste 400
P.O. Box 3446
Zanesville, OH 43702-3446
(740) 452-5057