Announcements

Queen of Peace Center, a Catholic Charities of St. Louis agency, named Sharon Spruell CEO, effective this week. Spruell has served as interim CEO since the departure of Lara Pennington in April. “Sharon’s strong clinical and team-building expertise, coupled with her demonstrated passion for our mission, clients and staff, position her to lead the agency,” Brian Sponsler, board president, said…

ST. LOUIS • Lying in bed at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in May, Amanda Davis was sickened by what she saw pop up on the ultrasound: a baby’s beating heart. She immediately turned away. “I was horrified,” she recalled. “What if I can’t kick?” Homeless, with one bag of belongings left on her heroin death march, she’d ridden…

Sally DeIuliis walked through the doors of Queen of Peace Center June 19, 2015, six months pregnant. She’d just been kicked out of a homeless shelter. She doesn’t remember how she got to the Catholic Charities family-centered behavioral health care provider for women with addiction, their children and families. She does remember saying, “It’s not…

Talk of the Town welcomes Sharon Spruell, CEO of Queen of Peace Center to the show. Listen here.

There’s nothing like a trip to Busch Stadium to root, root, root for the Cardinals! Imagine children taking it in for the first time. The sights! The sounds! The excitement of cheering along with the crowd as their hometown sports heroes take the field! Go to Bat for Kids is a Catholic Charities tradition that brings this experience…