Catholic Charities of Louisville Inc

Social enterprise: language services (ls), ls provides interpreters to 207 governmental, educational, healthcare, financial and other business entities in louisville and across the state. ls completed 19,984 interpreting assignments in 2025 and provided training to 82 new interpreters. ls is constantly working to elevate professional interpreting and translation as a career path for those who are qualified while helping entities throughout the state increase service capacity to residents who are deaf, hard of hearing, and/or limited english proficiency. ls anticipates demand for services to remain steady with slightly higher demand for remote services. rights of its clients under the laws of the united states and help them to access all the freedoms of our society. it fulfills that mission by providing quality professional services at low flat-rate fees, turning no one away for the inability to pay. as a member of catholic legal immigration network, inc. (clinic), ccl is obliged to keep fees affordable to serve the great demand for low-cost legal services in immigration law. ils provides services in 26 different categories ranging from simple consultations to representation in immigration court. in fy24, ils opened 1,245 cases. during the first six months of fy25, it opened 678 cases. immigration legal services (ils) as a member of catholic legal immigration network, inc. (clinic), ccl is obliged to keep fees affordable to serve the great demand for low-cost legal services in immigration law. ils provides services in 26 different categories ranging from simple consultations to representation in immigration court. in fy25, ils opened 1,310 cases. during the first six months of fy26, it opened 678 cases. the common earth gardens (ceg) program was created 19 years ago with a mission to provide community members and newly arrived refugees with the opportunity to grow food, to build a community, and to access local markets to supplement their incomes. currently, common earth gardens manages seven established community gardens with another garden in development throughout louisville, where plots are tended by low-income families, many of them refugees. the gardens are very popular, and gardeners rarely relinquish their plots, leading to consistently high demand. ceg has added 12 acres in the past three years and are working on developing the land for agricultural use to increase local food production and allow for more people to access land. currently 479 gardeners are growing in 671 community garden plots. ceg also manages an incubator farm with four farm sites where more than 20 farm teams (60+ farmers) are trained to grow their crop and sell it in markets. ceg is supporting a total of 11 agricultural sites on over 32 acres.

Case management services: bakhita empowerment initiative, an anti-human trafficking program, was created in 2007, with a mission to increase awareness of human trafficking, providing training, awareness and technical assistance to professional and community members, engage prevention work, offer outreach to high-risk populations, provide direct services to survivors of trafficking, and increase capacity to address human trafficking issues in kentucky and the larger anti-trafficking field. bakhita's vision is to dismantle systems that promote human trafficking, support survivors, and build capacity to address human trafficking at all levels. today ccl's program employs 4 full-time employees located in louisville and owensboro to provide statewide support to survivors of any age or gender, who have experienced sex or labor trafficking. bakhita supports foreign born and domestic survivors, ensuring that case management services are individualized to best support each individual. support was provided to 75 survivors of human trafficking through bakhita, including case management, provision of basic needs (food, clothing, etc.), legal advocacy, interpreter services, immigration legal services, therapy services, te