American Red Cross, St. Bernard Chapter

Telephone Number:  1-800-229-8191 or 504-277-8163

http://www.redcross.org

American Red Cross, SELA

Telephone Number:  1-800-229-8191 or 504-620-3134

http://www.arcno.org

Emergency Assistance to Families (Non-Katrina related):  Provides direct assistance in the form of food vouchers, clothing, shelter, medication, household goods, rental assistance and more, to victims of disasters; most often from a residential fire. 
Health & Safety Education Courses:  Empowers people to care for themselves and others post-Katrina through life saving training courses such as first aid, CPR, swimming and lifeguard training, and helping businesses develop a Continuity of Operation Plan. 

Arc of Greater New Orleans

Telephone Number:  504-837-5140

http://www.arcgno.org

Early Intervention:  Provide early intervention services to children birth to 3 years with developmental delays / disabilities to include speech, occupational, and physical therapy as well as parent education.

Project H.E.L.P - Respite and Supported Living:  Provide respite services to families supporting a child or adult who has disabilities at home.  Also assist families attempting to re-locate to habitable areas in order to re-establish their residences, including some direct assistance for household items.

Individual Options:  Provides meaningful and age-appropriate social, recreational, health and leisure activities for adults with cognitive disabilities, also opportunities to volunteer and work within the community.

Uptown Learning Center- Childcare: Provide childcare services to children six weeks to five years of age with and without developmental delays/disabilities.

Southeast Louisiana Council, Boy Scouts of America

Telephone Number:  1-800-394-9410 or 504-889-0388

http://www.bsa-selacouncil.org/

Leadership and Career Development/Scouting:  Provides youth with character development programs, citizenship training, personal fitness programs, career development, and emergency preparedness. 

Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeast Louisiana

Telephone Number:  504-566-0707

http://www.bgca.org

Power Hour and Summer Camp:  This program aims to improve the academic achievement of its members by helping them become self-directed, resourceful and confident learners through homework assistance and tutorial programming. 

Bright School

Telephone Number:  504-897-2145

Language Says It All and Individual Services:  In partnership with New Orleans Speech and Hearing Center and Rayne Early Childhood Center, they will provide a resource room for Deaf, hard of hearing and language delayed infants and toddlers (12 months to 5 years) with a special focus on children with cochlear implants. Services include intensive individualize language lessons, speech therapy and auditory training. 

Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans

Telephone Number:  1-800-624-2039 or 504-733-5539

http://www.cagno.org

Cancer Patient Services:  Assist with prescriptions and emergency assistance needs of uninsured cancer patients.  Emergency assistance includes: transportation to treatment, utility assistance, gas cards, burial fees, cancer treatment, etc. 

CASA New Orleans

Telephone Number:  504-522-1962

http://www.casaneworleans.org

CASA-Court Appointed Special Advocate:  Provides quality advocacy for children in the foster care system.  Volunteer Advocates becomes the voice for the child in the juvenile court.  They represent the best interest of abused and/or neglected children during juvenile court and child protection proceedings.

Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans

Telephone Number:  504-523-3755

http://www.ccano.org

Adult Day Care:  Provides day services to the elderly, the disabled, and adults with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.  Also, provides a safe environment and nutritious meals along with health services and socialization activities. 

AIDS Services:  Provides residential services, housing counseling and advocacy, and supportive services to persons with HIV/AIDS and their families in need of residential assistance.  Also assist with rent/utility assistance, homelessness prevention, peer counseling, and support groups for persons living with HIV/AIDS. 

Community Centers:  Located throughout the GNO Area, the Community Centers will provide assistance and/or supportive services in the following areas:  Housing – rent/mortgage payments, building materials, and referrals for the removal of flood-damaged interiors of homes, Mental Health counseling and referrals, Senior Day Care, employment/job readiness programs, food bank, and direct emergency assistance, such as utilities, household goods, furniture, IDs, and birth certificates. 

Counseling Solutions:  Provides comprehensive long-term (beyond two months) individual, family and group counseling including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). 

Deaf Action Center:  Provide limited equipment distribution, increased sign language interpreting for case management, disaster relief issues, and counseling. 

Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Services:  Provides a comprehensive array of services to victims of violence.  Services include crisis counseling, 24 hours crisis line, individual and group support groups, case management, individual and group children’s services, information and referrals, court advocacy, emergency legal services, sexual assault individual and group counseling, and medical advocacy.

Educational Services: Targeting low-income kindergarten through 8th  grade  students of the Greater New Orleans area, students will receive  necessary tutoring, remediation, and enrichment to improve their standardized test taking skills and scores. 

Emergency Shelter / Housing and Relocation Assistance:  Assist homeless or near-homeless individuals and families stabilize in a safe, secure environment by providing case management and related services, including housing and in some instances rent deposits and rental assistance. 

Head Start:  Education, food, and nutrition services to children ages 0 – 5 years old integrating the Head Start model. 

Hispanic Apostolate
Telephone Number:  504-464-5478
Hispanic Apostolate offers a wide array of services including workers’  rights, employment, tax preparation advocacy and basic emergency  assistance. 

Operation Helping Hands: Assemble and manage teams of volunteers from across the country to assist with the gutting and mold remediation of houses in the GNO area.  Also, begin to help homeowners with the basic rebuilding of their homes. 

Children’s Bureau of New Orleans

Telephone Number: 504-525-2366 

http://www.childrens-bureau.com

Project LAST and Family Counseling:  Provide community-based mental health services to children ages 0-17 and their families who have been impacted by Hurricane Katrina and/or other pre- or post-Katrina traumatic event.  Clients will be seen in their homes, shelters, churches, trailer communities, and/or other locations per client’s request, if necessary. 

City Year Louisiana 

Telephone Number:  504-975-8055

http://www.cityyear.org

Afterschool Program at Martin Luther King Jr. Charter: This program  provides afterschool programming to those students in the Martin Luther  King Jr. Charter school; helping children to succeed by offering them  academic and emotional support, adult mentors and supervision, and  safe, positive learning experiences with a primarily focus on the  importance of service, the benefits of teamwork, and improving self- esteem.

Community Center of St. Bernard (CCSTB)

Telephone Number: 504-281-2512

http://www.ccstb.org

Mustard Seed Distribution Program: Provides nonperishable food goods,  hygiene items and household supplies to St. Bernard Parish residents who  lack such basic commodities.

Community Christian Concern of Slidell, Inc

Telephone Number: (985) 646-0357 

http://www.slidellccc.org

Community Christian Concern Program: Through a complete assessment,  CCC assists those individuals with true needs—urgent problems requiring  immediate, short-term solutions.  Assistance can take  the form of food,  clothing, temporary shelter, child care, utility bills, personal items, or a  number of other possibilities.

Community Service Center, Inc.

Telephone Number:  504-897-6277

TORO:  Services to those released from prison to direct them into employment and not back into crime so they can be productive citizens to help rebuild the community. 

Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (CADA)

Telephone Number:  504-362-4272

http://www.cadagno.org

Drug Prevention and Crisis Outreach Services:  Providing substance abuse prevention services in schools and community; crisis counseling, supportive counseling in neighborhoods as they re-open and re-build. 

Daughters of Charity of New Orleans- Seton Resource Center for Child Development

Telephone Number: 504-482-2080

http://www.setonresourcecenter.org

Seton Counseling Services: Seton partners with twelve pk-8th grade  schools and deliver preventative and direct clinical services to children at  each school.

Dryades YMCA

Telephone Number:  504-522-8811

http://www.dryadesymca.com

Early Childhood Program:  Provides early childhood education and childcare for youngsters six months to five years. 
Youth Development Outreach Initiative:  Youth development enrichment services to include academic enrichment, career preparation, employment, camping, after-school activities to returning students. 

East St. Tammany Rainbow

Telephone Number:  985-646-0718

Child Care Center:  Provides early childhood education and childcare in St. Tammany to low income working residents and hurricane evacuees with pre-school children. 

Epilepsy Foundation of Louisiana

Telephone Number:  504-486-6326

http://www.epilepsylouisiana.org

Positive Approaches to Living with Epilepsy:  Provides information and referral, patient assistance, and 24 hour hotline to individuals living with epilepsy/seizure disorder. 

Family Service of Greater New Orleans

Telephone Number:  504-822-0800

http://www.fsgno.org

Counseling and Victims of Crime Assistance Prevention Program:  Provides general counseling (substance abuse, physical, emotional and sexual abuse, parenting, child and adolescent, couple, and family) and Victims of Crime services to individuals, children and families. 

Foundation for the LSU Health Sciences Center – Contact Donna Williams, Director

Telephone Number:  1-888-599-1073

http://www.foundation.lsuhsc.edu

Louisiana Cancer Survivor Project:  Provide a Survivor Clinic for stable cancer clients from the area to receive follow-up services locally and reduce their travel burdens. Also include ongoing, regular breast screening for under and uninsured cancer clients.

Gilda’s Preschool Academy

Telephone Number: 504-975-0146 

Gilda’s Infant/Toddler Child Care: The children who attend Gilda’s will gain  enriched experiences that promote their physical growth and intellectual  development to prepare them for the challenges of Pre-Kindergarten and  beyond. 

Good Will Institute Hospice

Telephone Number: 985-781-4730

http://www.goodwillhospice.org

 Home Hospice Care for the Uninsured: Provides access for hospice care  to un-insured terminally ill patients.

Goodwill Industries of Southeast Louisiana, Inc.

Telephone Number:  1-800-900-4799 or 504-456-2622

http://www.goodwillno.org

Additional Helping Hands: Goodwill’s Additional Helping Hands program  offers job training opportunities to people with disabilities; whether their  disability is poverty, homelessness, a physical/mental disability, or lack of  education.

Grace Child Center

Telephone Number: 504-488-68494

http://www.gracecanalstreet.org/gcc.htm

Child Day Care: Grace Child Center provides excellent and affordable  child care in a safe, nurturing, and bilingual (English/Spanish)  environment. 

Great Expectations Foundation

Telephone Number: 504-288-7818

Healthy Choices: Utilizes prevention, intervention and decision-making strategies to support teens to keep from making poor life choices, such as drug use, teen pregnancy, violence and other risky behaviors and consequences.  The Healthy Choices Program offers After-School and Summer Enrichment services to youth between the ages of 8-18 that resides in one of three public housing developments.

Greater New Orleans Nonprofit Knowledge Works

http://www.gnocdc.org

Advancing the Field of Nonprofit Management:  Working to develop community-based services as a network.  Organize, collect, and share information as a resource tool based on Hurricane Katrina needs.

Habitat for Humanity St. Tammany West

Telephone Number: 985-893-3172

http://www.habitatstw.org

Habitat for Humanity Family Services Department: We plan to replace blighted and substandard neighborhoods with safe, affordable, family-friendly workforce housing developments within West St. Tammany Parish.

Happy Kids

Telephone Number:  281-880-6400

http://www.happykidspreschool.com/

Happy Kids Preschool:  Provides early childhood education and childcare for pre-school and school-age children (2 months-12 years) from low income families. 

Healing Hearts for Community Development

Telephone Number: 504-831-9673 

http://www.celebrationchurch.org

Trauma Counseling Program: Provides faith-based, community-based  outpatient mental health services for individuals and families in the New  Orleans area struggling with traumatic issues as a result of Hurricane  Katrina.

House of Ruth

Telephone Number:  504-784-1162

http://www.houseofruthneworleans.org

Transitional Housing for the Homeless:  Transitional housing program that assists homeless families or individuals who have experienced a crisis due to job loss, health issues, fire, or other natural disasters by providing rental assistance and case management services. 

Hume Child Development Center

Telephone Number: 504-822-7883

Child Care: Hume provides a healthy, safe and affordable learning  environment for toddlers and preschoolers.

Jewish Community Center

Telephone Number:  504-897-0143

http://www.nojcc.com

Day Care: Provides early childhood education and childcare for children with working parents. 

Older Adult Social Development:  Serves three distinct populations:  elderly clients looking for social opportunities and a community to remain active around, elderly clients with dementia who need care for several hours per week, and caregivers of elderly clients who need respite from the constant care of their parents/elderly patients. 

Youth Services:  Serves the youth of Greater New Orleans area through a myriad of supervised programs focused on positive social interaction among children, youth, and adults from diverse cultural backgrounds. Programs include summer day camp, after-school classes, clubs, supervised game rooms, tutoring, monthly junior high sock hops, youth groups, fitness programs, and sports leagues. 

Jewish Family Service

Telephone Number:  504-831-8475

http://www.jfsneworleans.org

Counseling:  Provides effective and low-cost mental health counseling in the GNO area regardless of religion, race, or national origin

Family Life Education – Teen Life Counts:  Provides school based suicide prevention program with an emphasis on the effects of trauma and appropriate ways of coping with grief and loss.  Also provides suicide prevention education to high school students, screening and identification of adolescents at risk for depression or suicide, and school gatekeeper training. 

Homemaker/Lifeline:  Electronic emergency response systems for the elderly and disabled in their homes and homemaker services (light housekeeping, transportation, etc. that helps clients maintain independence. 

Just the Right Attitude

Telephone Number: 504 309-2492

http://www.jtra.org

Food Pantry and Hot Kitchen:  Provides hot lunches and groceries to the Greater New Orleans Area. 

Katrina Reconstruction Resource Center

Telephone Number:  504-309-5120

http://www.lakewoodbeacon.org

Beacon of Hope Resource Centers:  Resource Centers located in Lakeview, Gentilly, and the Lower 9th Ward that provide access to phones, fax, internet usage, neighborhood information, meeting space, volunteers, machinery and tools necessary to remove debris and dead vegetation from their area.

Kingsley House

Telephone Number:  504-523-6221

http://www.kingsleyhouse.org

Resettlement and Recovery Center:  Provide supports to allow families to rebuild, resettle, and return to some sense of normalcy by providing crisis and family counseling, child care, youth development, after school care, summer camp, elder care and day care for frail, disable, and handicapped adults, Medicaid enrollment, food stamp application assistance, vital records application assistance, and housing assistance. 

Legal Aid Bureau

Telephone Number: 504-883-8334 

Legal Aid Bureau: Provides legal consultation and services with Road  Home, the rebuilding process and with succession problems to 35  families in all parishes in service area. 

Louisiana Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped

Telephone Number:  504-899-6440

http://www.nfdh.org

Donated Dental Services:  Working with volunteers dentist in the community to provide dental care for handicapped, disabled, and elderly residents. 

Lower 9th Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association (NENA)

Telephone Number:  504- 319-9666 

 http://www.lower9thwardnena.com

NENA Case Management Recovery Support Program: Addresses the major needs of community residents as they seek to rebuild: financial planning; loss (bankruptcy or foreclosure) mitigation; rebuilding aid application assistance; health, mental health and other service referrals.

NENA Community Design Studio: This program guides residents throughout the entire rebuilding process including property assessment, zoning and code review, building design, preliminary cost estimating, drawings for obtaining building permits, contractor selections, bidding and contract negotiation, and construction management. 

Mental Health Association of St. Tammany

Telephone Number: 985-290-7002

http://www.mhast.org

Crisis Intervention and Assessment: Provides intervention, assessment,  referral and support to individuals and their families in both East and West  St. Tammany.

Metropolitan Center for Women & Children

Telephone Number: 504-837-5400

http://www.metrobatteredwomen.com

Metropolitan Center for Women & Children: Provides safety from physical and emotional abuse for persons who are being abused by their intimate partners.

New Orleans Speech & Hearing

Telephone Number:  504-897-2606 extension 101

http://www.noshc.org

Outpatient Rehabilitation – Adults:  Assessments of hearing loss and hearing aid dispensing and repair. 

Outpatient Rehabilitation – Children:  Assessment and treatment of communications disorders for children birth to 17 years. 

NO/AIDS Task Force

Telephone Number:  504-821-2601

http://www.noaidstaskforce.org

Medication Program:  Provides medication to individuals living with HIV/AIDS in the Greater New Orleans Area.

Mental Health Program: Provides mental health counseling to HIV infected individuals living in the Greater New Orleans area.  The program helps clients to increase their range of coping skills necessary for effectively managing HIV-related stressors and post-Katrina challenges.  The program focuses on alleviating the depression, despair and hopelessness that often accompany these stressors. 

New Orleans Ministry and Care Center

Telephone Number:  504-279-8100

http://www.nomacc.org

NOMACC:  Within St. Bernard Parish, this program provides house gutting, remodeling, rebuilding, a Chaplains Commission (for mental and spiritual care), onsite wireless networking with other agencies, YCE (Youth Christian Education) work with the community children through activities such as summer block parties and bicycle giveaways.

Odyssey House Louisiana, Inc

Telephone Number:  504-821-9211

http://www.ohlinc.org

Community Medical Clinic:  This is a free medical clinic on N. Tonti that  serves anyone in need of physical or mental health care.  They provide  walk-in urgent care, medication review, physical therapy, nutritional  consultations, mental health services, addiction services, psychiatric  services, case management, and women's health services.  They are  open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. 

Residential Substance Abuse: OHL provides comprehensive residential  drug and alcohol abuse treatment and therapy.

Operation REACH, Inc.

Telephone Number: 504-529-1922

http://www.operationreach.org

Gulfsouth Youth Action Fund: this program places resources at the center  of the youth movement, empowering young people in middle and high  school to lead in the recovery of Greater New Orleans and the Gulf Coast  region by funding youth-led programs/projects.

Phoenix of New Orleans

Telephone Number: 504-342-4399 

http://www.pnola.org

Housing Recovery Program: Within the Tulane/Gravier and Mid-City  Planning District #4, this program helps to rebuild residential housing units  damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Prevention Alliance of New Orleans (dba. Preservation Resource Center)

Telephone Number: 504-581-7032

http://www.prcno.org

Rebuilding Together New Orleans: Rebuilding Together New Orleans is  an affiliate of the national Rebuilding Together organization and is able  to draw resources (including volunteers) to assist in the rebuilding effort  to rebuild 20 houses for low income elderly and disabled homeowners  and first responders in the following five targeted neighborhoods in  Orleans Parish:  Hollygrove, Holy Cross, Broadmoor, Esplanade  Ridge/Treme and Faubourg St. Roch.

Raintree Children and Family Services

Telephone Number:  504-899-9045

http://www.raintreeservices.org

After School Services Program:  Provide after school prevention services to at-risk children and youth at targeted schools.  Services include skills and information on how to stay safe, resolve conflicts, and avoid drugs and alcohol. 

Raintree Family Service Coordination:  Assist families with infants and toddlers with special needs obtain specialized services needed to enable development to their fullest potentials. 

Royal Castle Child Development Center

Telephone Number:  504-488-1045

Child Development Center:  Provides early childhood education and childcare for children with working parents. 

Safe Harbor, Inc

Telephone Number:  985-781-4856

Domestic Violence Program & Shelter:  Provides a temporary shelter and a program that is designed to address the needs of domestic violence survivors and their minor children, including residential and non-residential services such as 24 hour crisis intervention, emergency shelter, safety planning, advocacy, empowerment, individual and group counseling, parenting classes, legal advocacy, assistance with Petitions of Protective Orders, court escort and assistance in locating housing, employment, and other community resources. 

The Salvation Army Area Command

Telephone Number: 504-208-8133

Women & Children’s Shelter (Women’s Harbor Light): Open to homeless  women and children and/or unoccupied single women and families, this  program provides 3 months of rent free accommodations to their  residents.

Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana

Telephone Number:  504-734-1322

http://www.no-hunger.org

Surplus Food Distribution:  Provide food and supplies through a network of partner agencies throughout the GNO area.  Distribution of donated and surplus food and some supplies to organizations serving those in poverty, immediate crisis, those returning to the New Orleans area, and to outlying communities serving evacuees. 

Southeast Louisiana Legal Services

Telephone Number:  985-345-2130

http://www.lawhelp.org/program/921

New Orleans Legal Assistance-Housing Unit:  Provides counsel and  advice, client education, negotiation and representation in courts and  administrative hearings pertaining to legal housing issues of all types;  rental or ownership, home repair, denials of government housing  assistance, permit issues, and disputes over ownership or occupancy

St. Bernard Battered Women’s Program

Telephone Number:  504-277-3177

Domestic Violence Program:  Providing non-residential services; crisis counseling, advocacy and referrals, and limited financial and transportation services in St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes. 

St. Bernard Project

Telephone Number:  504-272-2290

http://www.stbernardproject.org

St. Bernard Project:  Works to remove the barriers for families wishing to return to St. Bernard Parish by providing:  a tool co-op that allows families to borrow power tools to use to rebuild, a community center that provides computers and internet, fax services and seminars on subjects ranging from home refinancing to minor plumbing, and a support a family program, through which the Project purchases building materials and installs them in families homes through volunteer labor. 

St. Tammany Parish Department of Community Action

Telephone Number: 985-646-2090

http://www.Stpgov.org

Hurricane Recovery Program: Provides immediate intervention programs  and services to assistance individuals and families who experience  a  crisis or emergency and who are in need of help to obtain basic needs. 

STARC

Telephone Number: 985-674-0197

http://www.starcla.org

Adult Services/Supported Employment: To provide assessments, training, supports, and employment opportunities needed to enable adults with disabilities to become self-sufficient, function more independently in work and daily living and increase their quality of life.

Noah’s ARC Child Day Care Center:  Provide early intervention and childcare services to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers with and without special needs in St. Tammany and other Florida parishes. 

Rock of Ages Adult Day Care:  Provide quality care through structured activities and services in a stimulating environment to aging senior citizens with physical and mental disabilities in order to provide caregivers with much needed respite. 

Travelers Aid Society of Greater New Orleans

Telephone Number:  504-584-1107

http://www.travelersaid.org/tawwwdir.html

Crisis Intervention Counseling:  Providing crisis and individual counseling, post-Katrina support groups, community outreach counseling, long-term planning, emergency food, clothing, and shelter services.  Services also include financial assistance for rent/mortgage, utilities, household items, identification, internet access, and long distance transportation. 

SELF-Help Employment:  Provide job search counseling, support groups, IDs, bus tokens, work clothes/tools, voice mail services, resume preparation, phone/internet/computer access, food, shelter, other necessary services. 

United Cerebral Palsy of Greater New Orleans

Telephone Number:  504-865-0003

http://www.ucp.org

Children’s Services:  Provide special instruction, physical, occupational, and speech therapy to children ages birth to 3 who have developmental disabilities in Orleans, Jefferson, Plaquemines, and St. John, St. Tammany, St. Charles, and Tangipahoa parishes.  Also provide information, referrals and support to families, including access to affordable child care and other typical family programs.

United Negro College Fund

Telephone Number:  504-581-3794

Emergency Assistance Fund:  Provide financial assistance to students at Xavier and Dillard Universities during periods of unexplained, unavoidable family crises and emergencies. 

Urban League of Greater New Orleans, Inc.

Telephone Number:  225-928-7689

http://www.urbanleagueneworleans.org

Early Head Start:  This program provides early identification and treatment of developmental delays, direct support to parents and a safe harbor for children.

VIA LINK, Inc.

Telephone Number:  2-1-1 or 1-800-749-2673

http://www.vialink.org

Information & Referral / 2-1-1 and Crisis:  Expansion of VIA LINK Call Center services to provide crisis counseling, information and referral, and suicide prevention, with up-to-date service information. 

Vietnamese Initiatives in Economic Training (VIET)

Telephone Number:  504-255-0400

http://www.vietno.org

Afterschool and Summer Program:  VIET, the leading agency in the  Michoud area, provides stable and structured afterschool and summer  programming for students from grades K-8.

Visiting Nurses Association

Telephone Number:  504-888-3892

http://www.vnaa.org

Nursing / Home Health Aid:  Provide nursing and home health aide services to all 6 parishes to clients in home and/or at the public health clinics in New Orleans.  Services include:  immunization, wound treatment, diabetic care, venipuncture, physical assessment, catheter care, health screen, vital sign monitoring, disease process and medication teaching.   

Volunteers of America of Greater New Orleans, Inc.

Telephone Number:  504-483-3557

http://www.voagno.org

Greater New Orleans Disaster Recovery Partnership Volunteer Connection:  Supports the coalition of efforts of the Greater New Orleans Recovery Partnership in maximizing and harnessing citizen voluntary action through effective and efficient volunteer management. 

YMCA of Greater New Orleans

Telephone Number:  504-568-9622

http://www.ymcaneworleans.com

West St. Tammany YMCA Childcare Centers:  Provides full day care and after school care for low income families in Mandeville and Covington.

Youth Service Bureau of St. Tammany

Telephone Number:  985-893-6113

http://www.ysbworks.com/

Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA):  Provide child advocacy services for children in foster care in the courts in St. Tammany.

Crossroads:  Provides pre-Katrina and hurricane affected delinquent youth in St. Tammany parish with prevention and intervention techniques/tactics to staying out of the juvenile justice system.  Also provides safe driving classes in St. Tammany. 

Families in Need of Services (FINS):  Provide resources and supports to families with children/adolescents who behavior is ungovernable, truant, and/or running away behavior to prevent entry into the juvenile justice system. 

Options / Clinical Services:  Provide troubled youth and their families in St. Tammany with prevention, early intervention, and treatment services to confront mental health issues and factors such as substance abuse, ineffective discipline, poor communication, inadequate parenting, and grief/loss.