Catholic Charities of Tennessee

Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Program, a local affiliate of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Migration and Refugee Services, provides core resettlement services to newly arrived refugee individuals and families. Once we receive notice of a family’s approaching arrival, we must secure and furnish an apartment where they will begin their new life. Relying almost totally on donations of gently used items from community members and corporate donors, these first homes are furnished with minimal but comfortable belongings. We offer a program for Refugee Senior Citizens which allows them to improve their integration and well being through English as a Second Language and citizenship training, improved access to existing social services, physical exercise, acculturation activities and social gatherings.  We also offer a Refugee Youth program which offers enrichment and homework help. 

MISSION: Catholic Charities of Tennessee advocates for and provides services to people in 38 counties of Middle Tennessee, without regard to religious, ethnic, cultural and racial background. Since 1962, Catholic Charities has assisted those in need discover paths to self-sufficiency and a better quality of life.VISION: A community where respect, dignity and quality of life enable all people to thrive.  PURPOSE: To perform acts of love, goodwill and kindness. VALUES:Service to the Poor: We have a preferential option to serve poor and vulnerable people, as we are called to do by Sacred Scripture, Catholic traditions, and our own over riding sense of justice and the unity of all humanity.Respect: We honor the serenity of human life from conception to a natural death, knowing that every person, at every stage of his or her life, deserves to be treated with love, civility, courtesy, dignity, acceptance and tolerance.Integrity: We demonstrate a steadfast commitment to the highest standards of quality in all that we do, thereby promoting trust, confidence, and faith between us and everyone we collaborate with or serve.Compassion: We recognize that we are the same as the people we serve in the eyes of God, no matter what their circumstances or faults, or ours, and so we treat all people as ourselves would want to be treated.Diversity: In everything we do, always mindful of staff, volunteers and all who seek assistance, we honor, respect and include all of God’s children, regardless of their religion, race, sect, language, differences or special needs.