Local Outreach and Social Justice

We support Santa Maria Urban Ministry (SMUM), San Jose, through financial and other donations, hands-on help, and Board leadership. Learn more here.

We host Safe Park for two months each year. The Safe Park Program collaborates with West Valley Community Services and the Winter Faith Collaborative on a rotating basis to provide a safe location at night for people living in their cars. To learn more about Safe Park at St. Jude’s, or to sign up to help, click here. For more on the Winter Faith Collective and Safe Park, click here. 

St. Jude’s supports Canterbury Bridge at San Jose State University, which reaches out to the inter-faith community at the university. The chaplaincy provides food, money for laundry, school supplies and emergency funds for students in need. 

We also support Correctional Institutions Chaplaincy of Santa Clara County (CIC), which provides services to incarcerated individuals, including: Worship & prayer services, Bible and other study groups, Spiritual writing groups, Meditation groups, Spiritual & Grief counseling, religious items & other books, and reading glasses & large print materials. 

We host on our campus Live Oak Adult Daycare on each weekday from 8:00am – 2:00pm and also support their program monetarily.

We have a “Little Free Pantry” on our campus, which provides grab and go food and toiletries for those in need. It is stocked by our parishioner community and available at all times of day.

The San Jose Family Supportive Housing is one of the few shelters in the South Bay Area committed to the entire family.  St. Jude’s purchases, prepares and serves dinner on six Saturday evenings throughout the year. Learn more here.