How you can help

We are asked by many people how they can help.  Please read What We're Doing first and then consider the following ways you can help--and we thank you for the offer!

1. Pray

This is our first and most important action. We need to be in prayer, guided by the Holy Spirit, for our work to have any meaningful benefit.  We will most certainly fail otherwise.  If you could do nothing else for our cause, this would be of greatest value!  Please see our recommended prayers to invoke the intercession of two our patron saints: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and St. Catherine of Siena.  And please pray for the whole Church---not just this cause.

2. Call or E-mail the Office for Child Advocacy in the Archdiocese of Boston

Phone number is 617-746-5994.  E-Mail Address: child_advocacy@rcab.org. Please be polite and cordial!  When calling, ask to speak with Deacon Rizzuto or Bob Kelley and let them know you wish to express your concerns about the TAT program.  If they are not available, leave your phone number and ask to be called back.  

If you want more more info, read through our Concerns.  Our goal here is not to have you read from a script, but to have you voice issues that you are personally and sincerely concerned about.  Please thank them for any time they give you on the phone, whether or not they responded to your liking.  To help get you started in writing an e-mail message, please see our Resources page.

3. Write a letter to Cardinal O'Malley

This is especially effective if you've called the Child Advocacy Office and felt you did not get a response you were content with.  You can address your letter as follows:

His Eminence Sean Patrick Cardinal O'Malley
Archbishop of Boston
Cardinal's Residence
2101 Commonwealth Av.
Boston, MA 02135-3192

You can also fax your letter to 617-783-4564.  The phone number for the office is 617-254-0100.

4. Inform other parents

Networking for us is very important right now.  Many parents do not even know about TAT, or if they do they are often misinformed.  You can talk to other parents that you meet and ask them what they know about it.  You can tell them you've heard some things about it that concern you.  Feel free to direct them to this web site for more information.