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Walsh House is Catholic Charities, Diocese of Paterson's newest group home, dedicated on June 14, 2018, in Succasunna, New Jersey. Walsh House provides help and creates hope for 5 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The establishment of Walsh House grew from an urgent situation Federal guidelines that now applied to DPD had prohibited the former Alexander House in Oak Ridge — where the Walsh House residents lived — to be located next door to another group home there, Columbus House. So, with the approval of the newly-appointed Catholic Charities board of directors, DPD undertook the difficult task of finding another house that could accommodate Alexander House’s five residents. It had to be one level, easy to renovate for handicap accessibility and centrally located in Morris County.
The project took a giant leap forward with the generosity of Frank and Mimi Walsh, a retired couple, whom the group home is named after. Active philanthropists, they had long contributed to Catholic Charities, starting with Frank Walsh’s starting to play in its Casey Golf Classic fundraiser in the 1970's. Over the years, the Walsh’s have made generous contributions to institutions, such as Overlook Hospital, Summit, and Seton Hall University, South Orange, with its Walsh Gymnasium and the Walsh Library. The couple also has helped supplement other Catholic Charities projects. They were inspired to help by Msgr. James Mahoney, pastor of Corpus Christi, Chatham Township, their parish, who also serves as diocesan vicar general and moderator of the Curia.
“A beautiful building such as this is just a house and a house is different from a home. What makes a house a home is where there is love and where the Lord is present. Our coming together today to bless and inaugurate this house as a community of faith shows the great love, which has been present — building the house, establishing it and caring for it." - Bishop Serratelli at the Walsh House Dedication on June 14, 2018.
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Contact Walsh House
Director: Clara List
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