Catholic Family Services

Caring network serves pregnant and parenting young women and their families in kalamazoo county. The goals are to ensure healthy pregnancies and babies and to help develop healthy parenting behaviors. Services are provided at no charge to clients and include case management, in-home visits, referrals, pregnancy testing, pregnancy and parenting classes, postpartum depression screening, infant mortality screening and education, family literacy programs, and material items. In 2024, caring network provided supportive services to over 200 women. Through community support, assistance in the form of clothing, furniture, household items, car seats, cribs, diapers, and holiday gift baskets were given to eligible clients.

The bridges program provides high quality outpatient mental counseling for individuals, couples, families, and children. Bridges helps clients resolve issues relating to depression, anger management, marital or relationship conflicts, grief, loss, gender identity and depression to improve their quality of life. In 2024, bridges provided 1,467 therapy sessions.

Baraga manor (otsego senior apartments) in otsego provides affordable and safe living for adults age 62 or older and/or mobility-impaired adults. There are 48 one-bedroom units. Amenities include a community center and laundry facilities on each floor. Staffing includes a service coordinator and a maintenance manager. The heating assitance program, offered in collaboration with the diocese of kalamazoo, helps low-income families and individuals with their winter heating bills. In 2024, 66,644 passed through our agency from the diocese of kalamazoo and was disbursed to over 600 people in the nine county region of the diocese. This program is administered each year by volunteers.