SVC History
This is the year SVC was established
What is 1969?
This service offers Financial Assistance to our three closest neighborhoods for RENT, WATER, OR LG&E.
What is the Emergency Financial Assistance (EFA) Services at SVC?
This co-worker was once the director at The Catholic Enrichment Center where West Louisville Community Ministries is housed.
Who is Audrey Penman?
In this department supportive services may include case management, language access, basic needs, housing, crisis response, legal services, mental health services, job development, repatriation, tattoo removal.
What is Bakhita?
These two neighborhoods boarder on our corner of Market Street
What is Portland and Russel Neighborhoods?
This is the order of Sisters that started SVC.
Who are the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth?
This is the data base that staff record services in
What is Client Track?
This co-worker is former Post Office worker.
Who is Nova Stubbs?
This is an emergency assistance program that provides the most basic of human needs such as food and financial assistance to Louisville residents living west of 9th Street and north of Broadway.
What is Sister Visitor Center?
Louisville is a segregated city, and this is what Louisville natives call what has become the de-facto barrier dividing line.
What is The Ninth Street Divide?
We went on a retreat where many SCN's live
What is Nazareth, Kentucky?
This is the forms each new client has to fill out
What is the INTAKE form?
This co worker is recent graduate from the University of Kentucky with a Master's degree in Applied Anthropology.
Who is Sam Belza?
This department is committed to building bridges through communication, by empowering organizations and the community at large with the resources needed to communicate with our Limited English Proficiency population.
What is Language Services?
This heavyweight grew up in our own Russel Neighborhood.
Who is Muhamad Ali?
This SCN guided us in meditation.
Who is Sr Sharon?
This is the half sheet form that the Food Pantry staff fill out and hand to the client (sometimes the client likes to change the information in order to receive more food)
What is the Shopping Form?
This Co-worker was the Sr Director at the Center for Women and Families for 11 yrs
Who is Becky Jetton?
This program strengthens the voices of those in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, accompanying and supporting them while providing the tools to advocate for themselves by educating them on their rights.
What is the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program?
This is the demographic information for which of our closest neighborhoods
White, Non-Hispanic 1,558 13%
Black, Non-Hispanic 10,546 85%
What is the Shawnee Neighborhood?
This SCN is our director at SVC
Who is Sr Paris?
The number of volunteer hours logged at SVC in FY23
What is 7,493?
This co worker worked at MRS for five years before joining our team.
Who is Pacifique Uwayezu?
Staff in this program work with local schools, parishes and other interested partners to educate around issues that impact the community as a whole while advocating for the most vulnerable among us. We seek to educate people in particular around Catholic Social Teaching to inspire people to participate in the life of their community.
What is the Mission Department?
This is the demographic information for which of our closest neighborhoods
White, Non-Hispanic 6,727 63%
Black, Non-Hispanic 3,422 32%
What is the Portland Neighborhood?