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​This curated list of online resources includes free to use resources (with acknowledgement of the source of the activity) and selected fee-based resources which often offer subscriptions for churches so that the programs can be provided to everyone in the church.

Education Program & Action Resources from Organizations

The following list includes educational programs on social justice for adolescents through adults. 
Ave Maria Press 
​resources.avemariapress.com/resources/25/Foundations-of-Catholic-Social-Teaching
Ave Maria Press makes available free downloadable teaching resources, learning activities, and videos for teaching social justice.

Catholic Social Teaching (Catholic Relief Services)
https://www.crs.org/resource-center/CST-101
CST 101 is a collaborative 7-part video and discussion guide series that brings the themes of Catholic social teaching to life and inspire us to put our faith into action.

Connecting Faith and Justice Youth Curriculum
This curriculum is for all youth (Junior High and Senior High) students. The lessons are flexible and can be adapted to fit the needs of your students while encouraging them to search deeper within themselves, their relationship with God and their role within their community and the world. Each lesson is designed to last an hour and includes a centering moment, scripture study, group activity and a closing moment. All the lessons are standalone lessons and are not dependent on previous lessons. Download the curriculum:
  • Lectionary Year A
  • Lectionary Year B
  • Lectionary Year C

Education for Justice ($ subscription + free resources)
​educationforjustice.org

Education for Justice is a global digital subscription membership service that provides resources for those who wish to study, teach, and practice Catholic social tradition. They offer members access to a growing library of thousands of text-based and multimedia resources, a monthly e-newsletter, and other benefits to help them approach the world’s headlines from the perspective of Catholic social tradition.

​JustFaith Ministries ($ and Free)
www.justfaith.org
Through small-group programs we help people deepen their faith, invite learning, and inspire action around contemporary social issues. All programs include prayer, scripture, reading, dialogue, videos, retreats, relationship-building and direct engagement. Programs include: Faith and Racial Equity, Faith and Racial Healing, Faith and Racial Justice, Cultivating Nonviolence, Faith and Immigration Justice, Youth for Justice, Hunger, and Faith and Poverty: A Biblical Response.   

Kids Can Make a Difference
https://kidscanmakeadifference.org
An educational program for middle- and high school students; Finding Solutions to Hunger: Kids Can Make A Difference; Idea Clearing House, and the KIDS web site.

Poverty USA
​www.povertyusa.org​
Poverty USA is an initiative of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) and was created as an educational resource to help individuals and communities to address poverty in America by confronting the root causes of economic injustice—and promoting policies that help to break the cycle of poverty.
  • Encounter the Poor: http://www.povertyusa.org/encounter
  • Learn about Poverty: http://www.povertyusa.org/index.php/learn
  • Act: http://www.povertyusa.org/act
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Saint Mary’s Press
https://www.smp.org/resourcecenter/subject/Social-Justice/10
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The Saint Mary's Press Resource Center has resources for teaching social justice that you can download including activities, lesson plans, prayers, articles, worksheets, and videos. 

Social Justice Resource Center
​socialjusticeresourcecenter.org

The mission of the Social Justice Resource Center is to link faith to action by providing information and resources on the social issues of our time. The Social Justice Resource Center offers hundreds of resources on principles of Catholic social teaching, information on specific justice issues, action ideas, a calendar with events and anniversaries throughout the year, and more.


The following organizations provide information, education, and action resources on a variety of issues, including climate and the environment, poverty, hunger, racial justice, education, human rights, housing, immigration, and peacemaking. 
​American Forestry Association
  • Resources: https://www.americanforests.org/tools-research-reports-and-guides

Bread for the World
  • How to end hunger resources: https://www.bread.org/how-end-hunger
  • How to make an impact resources: https://www.bread.org/our-impact

Catholic Campaign for Human Development
  • Poverty education: https://www.usccb.org/committees/catholic-campaign-human-development/poverty-education

​Catholic Climate Covenant
  • Programs: https://catholicclimatecovenant.org/programs
  • Resources: https://catholicclimatecovenant.org/resources
  • Catholic climate change teachings: https://catholicclimatecovenant.org/teachings

Catholic Relief Services
  • CRS resource center: https://www.crs.org/get-involved/resource-center
  • Lent justice resources: https://www.crsricebowl.org
  • Advent justice resources: https://www.crs.org/stories/tags/advent

Children’s Defense Fund
  • Priorities: https://www.childrensdefense.org/policy/policy-priorities
  • Children’s Sabbath: https://www.childrensdefense.org/childrens-sabbath-celebration

Church World Service
  • Action projects  and advocacy: https://cwsglobal.org/get-involved
  • CROP Hunger Walk: https://crophungerwalk.org

Compassion International
  • Resources and churches in action: https://www.compassion.com/church-engagement

Creation Justice Ministries 
  • Campaigns and resources to protect, restore, and rightly share God's creation:  https://www.creationjustice.org 

First Book
  • Supporting education, basic needs, and wellness for children in need: https://firstbook.org 

Global Exchange
  • Human rights resources and action: https://globalexchange.org

God’s Planet [We’re All Part of God’s Plan(et)]
  • Awareness and engagement media campaign to educate, inspire and activate U.S. Catholics to embrace and act upon the teachings of Laudato Si’ and care for creation: https://godsplanet.us

Habitat for Humanity
  • Resources and projects: https://www.habitat.org

Heifer Project
  • Action: https://www.heifer.org/what-you-can-do
  • Faith Programs: https://www.heifer.org/what-you-can-do/get-involved/faith

International Justice Mission
  • Action: https://www.ijm.org/churches

Ignatian Solidarity Network
  • Network, educate, and advocate for social justice (migration, environmental justice, criminal and juvenile justice): https://ignatiansolidarity.net/resources
  • Creation resources and Pope Francis’ Laudate Si Encyclical: https://ignatiansolidarity.net/papal-encyclical-on-ecology-2015

Justice Revival
  • To inspire, educate, and mobilize Christian communities to respond faithfully to the call to justice by standing in solidarity with the oppressed and defending the human rights of all. They provide Christian education on justice and human rights designed specifically for U.S. church communities: justicerevival.org. 

Laudate Si’ Action Platform
  • Responding to the call for healing in our relationships with God, our neighbors, and the Earth: https://laudatosiactionplatform.org/resources

Learning for Justice 
  • Resources for racial justice: https://www.learningforjustice.org

Lutheran World Relief
  • Congregation resources: https://lwr.org/congregations
  • Information and education Resources: https://lwr.org/downloads

​National Arbor Day Foundation
  • Action resources: https://www.arborday.org

National Audubon Society
  • Advocacy, conservation, and education: https://www.audubon.org

The Nature Conservancy
  • Resources, action, projects: https://www.nature.org

NETWORK – Catholic justice advocacy
  • Advocacy Toolbox: https://networkadvocates.org/advocacytoolbox
  • Education Toolbox: https://networkadvocates.org/advocacytoolbox/educate

Not For Sale
  • Tools and resources for addressing human slavery: https://www.notforsalecampaign.org/tools-and-resources

ONE Campaign
  • Justice issues: https://www.one.org/us/issues
  • Justice action: https://www.one.org/us/take-action

Pax Christi, US
  • Peace resources: https://paxchristiusa.org/resources

Rainforest Alliance
  • Resources for caring for creation : https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/everyday-actions

Room to Read
  • Advocacy and action for global education: https://www.roomtoread.org

SERRV International
  • Fighting global poverty through fair and ethical trade: https://www.serrv.org 

Sojourners
  • Act, learn, and engage on immigration, nonviolence and peace, racial justice, women and girls, climate justice, democracy and voting, economic justice, and human rights and global poverty: https://sojo.net/sojoaction/vision

World Vision
  • Emergency relief, promotion of justice, awareness that leads to informed understanding, giving, involvement, and prayer: https://www.worldvision.org/get-involved

World Wildlife Fund
  • Protecting communities, wildlife, and the places in which they live: https://www.worldwildlife.org 

Education & Action Resources from Christian Denominations

The following Christian Churches have information, education, and action resources on a variety of issues, including climate and the environment, poverty, hunger, racial justice, education, human rights, housing, immigration, and peacemaking. 
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
  • Issue descriptions, videos, links to justice organizations, and learning resources: https://disciples.org/resources/justice
  • Advocacy Toolkit: https://disciples.org/resources/justice/advocacy-tool-kit
  • Acts of Reconciliation: https://disciples.org/resources/justice/acts-of-reconciliation

Christian Reformed Church NA
  • Resources to learn about the root causes of poverty, hunger, and oppression, and we empower the church to call on those in power to improve systems and enact just public policy: https://www.crcna.org/SocialJustice
  • Race relations: https://www.crcna.org/race/resources

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
  • Racial justice resources: https://cbf.net/mccall-initiative

The Episcopal Church
  • Poverty: https://www.episcopalchurch.org/ministries/domestic-poverty
  • Creation care: https://www.episcopalchurch.org/ministries/creation-care
  • Social justice and engagement: https://www.episcopalchurch.org/ministries/social-justice-advocacy-engagement
  • Racial reconciliation: https://www.episcopalchurch.org/ministries/racial-reconciliation

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
  • Faith and society resources: https://elca.org/Faith/Faith-and-Society
  • Racial justice: https://www.elca.org/resources/racial-justice

Mennonite Church USA
  • Peacebuilding: https://www.mennoniteusa.org/ministry/peacebuilding/
  • Undoing Racism: https://www.mennoniteusa.org/ministry/peacebuilding/undoing-racism

National Council of Churches
  • A list with links to anti-racism resources from Christian denominations: https://nationalcouncilofchurches.us/anti-racism-resources

Presbyterian Church USA
  • Hunger and poverty: https://www.presbyterianmission.org/what-we-do/food-hunger
  • Advocacy and social justice: https://www.presbyterianmission.org/what-we-do/advocacy-social-justice
  • Racial equity: https://www.presbyterianmission.org/what-we-do/racial-equity 

United Church of  Christ
  • Justice and local church ministries: https://www.ucc.org/what-we-do/justice-local-church-ministries
  • Understanding the issues: www.ucc.org/justice_issues

​United Methodist Church
  • Church and society (racial justice: poverty, climate, health, peace, and civil and human rights): https://www.umcjustice.org

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
  • Justice, peace, and human development: https://www.usccb.org/offices/justice-peace-human-development

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