Sacred Heart Community Service

Happy Friday! Check out Sacred Heart's interview with Black Lives Matter organizer, Alicia Garza, discussing social justice, organizing, strategy, and self-care! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KyLbUAXv9E

Pack A Back Summer 2021 Registration Open! Welcome to Pack-A-Back 2021! We’re excited to support our community by giving backpacks and school supplies to students in grades TK-12. They will be distributed on August 9th, 11th, and 12th 2021. All the details are posted at the link below! https://sacredheartcs.org/pab-reg

Housing Workshop: A Narrative of Poverty and Housing in San José Missed it last time around? Here's your chance to learn about the housing crisis in San José and what you can do to organize around ending it. When: Tuesday July 13, 2021 at 6:30pm Register here: http://bit.ly/SHCShousing

Volunteer Spotlight! Angelina Nguyen is a Junior in Northern California Girl Scout Troop 61679. This year she decided to it was time to take her Junior Journey towards her Bronze Award. In April she contacted Sacred Heart Community Service to get some information on how she could best help our community as a whole. We want to thank Angelina for her hard work and commitment to our community and congratulate her on achieving her Bonze Award Pin, the highest honor a Junior Girl Scout can earn! Drop some love down for Angelina below!

Black History Spotlight: It’s Black History Month again, a time we use to honor the achievements, resilience, and excellence of Black people throughout history. Every February, we recognize the contributions of Black people, we celebrate their ingenuity and perseverance. This month, I would like to put a spotlight on a few Black women who have had and continue to have an impact on American history. These women might not be household names like Harriet Tubman or Rosa Parks, b...ut they are heroes in their own right. Here are five Black women you probably don’t know a lot about. Shirley Chisholm made history in 1968 when she became the first Black woman elected to US Congress. Despite facing what she called a double handicap of being Black and being a woman, she served in Congress for 15 years, fighting for the rights of women and people of color, for alleviations from poverty, and against the Vietnam war. #bhm #communityunited

Get your taxes done online FREE by Sacred Heart Community Services via our virtual IRS-certified volunteers. Upload your tax forms securely to us at: www.GetYourRefund.org/SHCS.

Congratulations to the graduates of SHCS' Logrando Juntos program! The program is a 10 week financial literacy course where participants learn and share inform...ation about househeold finances and the U.S. financial system. Participants were very excited to be part of this journey as a community. If you are interested in completing the course call the financial coach at 408-806-7403. Pictures are of our drivethru graduation ceremony See more

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This morning San Jose residents, joined by tenants from throughout the Bay Area, formed a human blockade that successfully shut down eviction court at the Santa Clara County Superior Courthouse. Every week, 25 to 30 eviction proceedings occur at the Santa Clara County Superior Court. The Bay Area Regional Tenant Organizing Network (RTO), a coalition of 30+ tenant groups throughout the Bay Area including Sacred Heart Community Service, organized the eviction blockade to stop ...evictions scheduled for hearings, urge Presiding Judge Deborah Ryan to halt all eviction proceedings during the pandemic, and call on Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith to immediately stop enforcing lock-outs during the pandemic. We salute the hard work these organizers put in to help keep our community safe! #communityunited

Join us for an upcoming conversation about how to be an ally in the fight for racial justice. Sign up here: http://bit.ly/SHCSrac102 #communityunited

Just three weeks until election day! Please see Sacred Heart's voter guide below #CommunityUnited

The Sacred Heart Voter Guide is HERE! #CommunityUnited #Vote

Have questions about voting? Check out these informative resources from the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters https://www.sccgov.org//Resou/Pages/Multimedia-Center.aspx... #CommunityUnited

WE NEED YOU! If you are healthy and able, Sacred Heart needs your help distributing food to families in need. We have instituted new safety measures in our food pantry including mandatory masks/gloves provided by Sacred Heart and maximized social distancing. Wash your hands, mask up, and join us! For questions regarding our safety measures, please contact us here: [email protected] or 408-278-2171... New volunteers Fill out a volunteer application here: http://bit.ly/SCHSNewVolunteers Returning volunteers Schedule a shift today: http://bit.ly/SHCSwelcomeback

Sacred Heart would like to thank the Italian Men's Club for their generous donation of $8,300 to support our COVID-19 relief efforts! #CommunityUnited

Si Se Puede!! Everyone counts! ¡Todo contamos!

6 days left to make sure that you are counted! Please share to make sure that everyone in our county is counted in the 2020 census!!!

Solidarity Summit live now... < = >

Welcome to the Inaugural Sacred Heart Solidarity Summit 2020

Let’s make sure everyone counts! Make sure you fill out your census survey before the September 30 deadline.

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