Pastoral Plan for HisPanic Ministry / From Guests to Hosts Hispanic ...

Pastoral Plan for Hispanic Ministry / From Guests to HostsPart IiiAction Steps:1. Publish proactive articles on racism in The CatholicNorthwest Progress.2. Collect from archdiocesan archives and media centers,resources exploring the topic of racism and make themavailable for parish use.3. Heighten the awareness of racism, its sinfulness, and itsdehumanizing effects on today’s society in parishes andat archdiocesan events and social justice institutes andforums.4. Encourage dialogue on this topic at youth forums andsocial gatherings.5. Participate in national forums or promote at local archdiocesanevents topics that challenge racism.6. Encourage Catholics throughout the Archdiocese topray for the unity of the local Church and the demise ofracial oppression.Go a l 6.2: Develop outreach services that address thehuman dignity of immigrants and their families.Lead Agents: Office of Catholic Schools, Office of CatholicFaith Formation, Catholic Community Services of WesternWashington, Office for Youth and Young Adult MinistryCo-Lead Agents: Pastors, Pastoral Coordinators, Deansand PrincipalsObjective 6.2.1: Provide outreach efforts that address andprovide immigrant families support against domestic violence,school dropout, gangs, drugs and violence, and access to affordablehousing and health services.Action Steps:1. Create awareness among Hispanic families and addressdomestic violence, school dropout, gangs, drugs andviolence as symptoms of marginal employment and poverty.2. Offer an environment within Catholic schools in whichHispanic children can maintain and foster their Catholicidentity.3. Offer tutoring services for children and youth with languagebarriers to ensure they can excel in school andtesting performance.4. Establish outreach counseling services in Spanish forfamilies.5. Provide counseling services in Spanish within CatholicSchools.6. Create after school or extracurricular activities that involveand offer youth an alternative to gangs and drugs.7. Create youth outreach activities that address youth ingangs.8. Establish migrant shelters that provide appropriate pastoraland social services to migrants.9. Establish ESL programs in lieu of the citizenship preparationrequirements.10. Work with parishes and deaneries in collaboration withState and non-profit agencies to promote and bring affordablehealth care services to undocumented immigrantsand low income families.11. Help newcomers integrate in ways that are respectful,that celebrate their cultures, and that are responsive totheir social needs, leading to mutual enrichment of thelocal Church.12. Give special attention to migrant and immigrant childrenand youth as they straddle two cultures, especiallyto give them the opportunities for leadership and servicein the community.13. Offer sacramental preparation to farm workers and theirfamilies which considers their particular migrating circumstances.14. Continue to provide outreach support and sacramentalservices to campesinos at migrant camps and encouragelocal parishioners to be prepared as home missionariesand the migrant themselves to be prepared as catechistsand outreach workers.15. Continue to develop affordable housing for farm workersand their families, one housing project a year.16. Compile and distribute to parishes a reference list ofnon-profit organizations that offer health services forlow income families and immigrants, regardless of theirimmigration status.17. Work with non-profit organizations that offer health servicesto make presentations to immigrants in parishes.Objective 6.2.2: Create education and training programs forboth the Hispanic community and the general parish communitiesthat emphasize social justice and outreach.Lead Agents: Assistant Director for Hispanic/Latino MinistryServices, Office of Catholic Faith Formation24