Catholic Charities and Latinos
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
At Catholic Charities we interface with the growing Hispanic/Latino community in Chicago in a number of ways. First, our programs serve a large number of Latinos. Last year, Catholic Charities met the needs of more than 160,000 Latinos, who comprised 16% of the total number of people served by our programs. Second, the Latino population in the Chicago area is a young one. In Chicago, more than 40% of children younger than age five are Latino. In some suburbs that percentage rises to 50 or even 80. So bilingual/bicultural early childhood programs are becoming even more important. Today Monsignor Boland is joined by Ilse Zenteno, Bilingual Project Manager for our Office of Latino Affairs, and Maria Caridad Rositas Montemayor, PhD, Early Childhood Program Manager to discuss the early childhood and other services Catholic Charities offers Latinos.