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CSS Outreach Offices

Imperial/McCook Outreach

CSS Imperial Thrift Store (St. Isidore Gift & Thrift)

Imperial/McCook Programs

Family Support Services

Serving Chase, Dundy, Frontier, Hays, Hitchcock, Lincoln, Perkins, and Red Willow counties

Please contact Family Support Services Specialist Jennifer Hinze at 531.484.3566 or jhinze@csshope.org to learn more.

Food Pantry

Food assistance is available for those in need. To request help, or for more information, contact Family Support Services Specialist Jennifer Hinze at 531.484.3566 or jhinze@csshope.org to learn more.

Immigration Legal Services

Catholic Social Services of Southern Nebraska is certified by the Department of Justice to practice immigration law as authorized representatives. Forms include:

  • Permanent Residency
  • Naturalization
  • DACA

and more. Spanish interpretation is available upon request. To speak with our Immigration Legal Services Program, please call 402.327.6244


Support CSS Imperial/McCook

Donate Items

Please call our store (308.882.3065) for our current donation guidelines.

Donate Money

Your gifts, both large and small, will help us bring Hope in the Good Life to those we help together in the 8-county area served by our outreach office. Click here to donate online.

Volunteer

We offer many opportunities for individuals, families, and parish communities to serve those in need. Ultimately, we are about service to one another: the disabled, the aged, the newcomer, and the poor among us.

Join us! To get started, please fill out our simple online volunteer application by clicking here.

Our location

PLEASE NOTE: St. Isidore Gift & Thrift will be closed until further notice. We will announce our reopening date on our Facebook page (click to follow).


The latest CSS Imperial/McCook News

By Katie Patrick

Springtime is often associated with new life and fresh beginnings. After a long, cold winter, nature reawakens—birds chirp, flowers bloom, and the grass turns green. In my backyard, for example, near our Marian statue, our rose bushes, which struggled last year, are beginning to show signs of hope.

Just like those rose bushes, there are many people in our community who are given the chance to grow and rebuild, no matter how difficult their past has been. One such person is Jacob, a young man who, after more than a decade in federal prison, is navigating his own journey of transformation with the help of Catholic Social Services and RISE.

By John Soukup,
Catholic Social Services of Southern Nebraska

Stories of transformation and newfound hope are emerging from behind prison walls throughout the Diocese of Lincoln. Many incarcerated men and women are experiencing the Catholic faith in powerful, personal ways.

By Katie Patrick

On Mother’s Day, we often picture flowers, breakfast in bed, handwritten cards, and perfectly behaved children. But for one mother in our community, the day begins—like most days—with quiet sacrifice and deep faith.

Maria, like many immigrant mothers, balances her own dreams with her children’s needs. Before the day starts and while her children are still asleep, Maria sits with her coffee at the kitchen table and opens her U.S. Citizenship workbook. It’s been more than 10 years since she and her children made the dangerous journey to the United States. Two of the children are too young to remember the trip, but Maria remembers it all—the fear, the uncertainty, and the early years of hardship.

By Katie Patrick

The call to the peripheries isn’t just for popes and bishops. You can go to the peripheries, too.


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