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Catholic News Herald

Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina

CHARLOTTE — Registration is open for Faithful Servant Catholic Leadership Institute for high school aged youth and adults who work with them. The 38th annual institute will be held June 16-22 at Belmont Abbey College.

Regardless of participants’ ultimate vocational call, Faithful Servant provides a foundation of insight into discipleship coupled with proven life skills. Some of the topics covered during the week include: Christian leadership styles, communication skills, negotiation and consensus building, morality and natural law, group dynamics, the New Evangelization, and the Eucharist.

To register, go online to www.charlottediocese.org/ev/youth/events/faithful-servant.

For more information about the Faithful Servant Leadership Institute, contact Paul Kotlowski at 828-228-1692 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

BELMONT — Regina Moody, president/CEO, recently announced that Holy Angels has earned a three-year accreditation by CARF International. This accreditation decision represents the highest level of accreditation that can be awarded to an organization and shows the organization’s substantial conformance to the CARF standards. This is Holy Angels’ fourth CARF survey and the fourth three-year accreditation for its programs and services.

The two-member survey team spent three days observing at the community group homes, Cherubs Café, Cotton Candy Factory, Spruced Goose Station, the Morrow Center, LifeChoices and the five ICF (Intermediate Care Facilities) group homes and reviewed records, and policy and procedure manuals.

Moody noted, “It is truly affirming when professionals in the field of developmental disabilities, each having more than 30 years knowledge, sees and experiences the spirit of compassionate care of our staff for our residents and their families.”

An organization receiving this accreditation has put itself through a rigorous peer review process and has demonstrated to a team of surveyors during an on-site visit that its programs and services are of the highest quality, measurable and accountable.

CARF is an independent, nonprofit accrediting body that promotes the quality, value, and optimal outcomes of services through a consultative accreditation process that centers on enhancing the lives of the persons served.

— Mercy Sister Nancy Nance