The organization was founded in 1952, and it provides meals, transitional shelter, drug and alcohol recovery programs, and support services to those struggling with homelessness and addiction.
[3] Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin created the Catholic Worker newspaper and then opened up houses of hospitality and farms.
People across America, like the founders of Blanchet House, were so inspired by their activism that they started their own Catholic Worker communities, each one independent from each other.
[4] In 1962, a farm in Carlton, Oregon was purchased by Blanchet House which hosts a residential program for men who are rebuilding their lives from drug and alcohol addiction, job loss and other obstacles.
[3] Blanchet Farm in Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon runs a rural program offers a recovery through work.