Community of Caring

Our
mission  is to meet basic
human needs in a loving way.

Mother
Kennedy was a woman that
truly believed “Love could change the world.” She lived this
every day of her life and has a legacy that has touched
people around the world. We honor her legacy on August 14th
on what would be her 99th Birthday. 
Our wish is for  people  to expand their capacity for human kindness
and  help continue her legacy of changing
the world through Love

 Her legacy of love continues through the women
and men that come to Community of Caring. Community of Caring provides shelter,
food, clothing, case management and hope to both men and women. People coming
to Community of Caring seeking safe shelter often only have the clothes they
are wearing. The men and women that come to COC have experienced a series of
traumatic events prior to the trauma of homelessness. It has always been the
mission of Community of Caring to assist whenever we can in a caring way.

In the
current times of unprecedented numbers of homeless people, not just in Erie
County but across the country, and the  anxiousness people feel about what they see and
hear in the news, it is so important to remind people  to recommit to doing what they  can to show 
human kindness.

For more
information on Mother Marybeth Kennedy please watch our Youtube video by
clicking this link https://youtu.be/jf3u40R8Ib8

Who We Are

The Community of Caring (COC) was founded in 1980 by the Rev. Charles and Mother Mary Beth Kennedy to respond to unmet human needs: hunger, homelessness, illness and others.
The agency was incorporated in 1983 as a non-profit human services organization that has a board of directors, staff, budgets, audits and other characteristics of a formal organization. There is also the informal level of COC, in which members simply pledge to do an act of kindness every day.