Jan grew up as the youngest of five in the village of Pickwick, just 10 miles south of Winona, and has a B.S. in Public Administration, Health Education, and a minor in Gerontology from Winona State University. She prefers to be on the 'front line' providing one-on-one service to those in need. Jan [...]
“We just lived too long.” Rita* and her husband were in their 80s when she called Catholic Charities of Southern Minnesota for help. They could no longer afford to pay the high cost of Eliquis, a blood thinner, and the inhalers her doctor said she needed to survive. “We worked hard all our lives,” [...]
By Christi Reynard (WINONA) Imagine choosing between your mental health and breathing. It sounds like something out of a fantasy novel or a TV show. A tyrannical sorcerer appears before a hero, putting before them a terrible choice: sacrifice their mental health, or their ability to breathe. Some people in southern Minnesota have to [...]
Catholic Charities of Southern Minnesota is the winner of a $5,000 Community Assistance Award through Altra Federal Credit Union’s annual Best Life Community Awards. That money will go to help Catholic Charities programs like MediAppS, which helps people with low incomes enroll in programs to get prescription medications at reduced or no cost, [...]