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United Way’s Post-Katrina Agency Response
Programs Funded for July to December 2007
Phase V Program Descriptions by Agency

United, we can rebuild lives and communities. In this ever-changing post-Katrina and Rita era, United Way for the Greater New Orleans Area is assessing the new needs of the communities we serve in Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Tammany and Tangipahoa Parishes. United Way is funding only those programs that are most effective in delivering results that positively impact our communities through relief, recovery and rebuilding. United Way will deliver the best return on your charitable investment.

As we recognize that now is not the time for business as usual, United Way has ended annual allocations to agencies and moved to a short-term grant process of a mix of programs and services that meet the following priority needs: Crisis Intervention/Counseling/Case Management; Medical Support; Early Child Development; Emergency Shelter/Housing/Food Assistance; Youth Development/Mentoring; Disaster Learnings & Preparation; Employment Services; Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse; Family Support; Elderly/Disabled; and Legal Assistance; Non Profit Management/Volunteer Management.


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Partner Agencies with Program Descriptions

American Red Cross, St. Bernard Chapter

Telephone Number:  1-800-229-8191 or 504-620-3105

http://www.arcno.org/

Response, Relief and Recovery:  Long term response, relief and recovery efforts to provide basic needs (housing, food, clothing, financial and medical), trauma support to include crisis and trauma counseling from problems associated with Katrina and Rita, disaster education and preparedness for existing and new volunteers, mental health counseling for children in St. Bernard Parish post-Katrina and Rita and new volunteer recruitment to have residents helping residents in St. Bernard Parish.

           

American Red Cross, SELA

Telephone Number:  1-800-229-8191 or 504-620-3105

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:  504-897-0132

 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.
Employment Services:  Assist in placing/re-placing individuals with developmental disabilities into employment as well as supporting individuals who are currently employed to maintain employment. 
Family Service Coordination:  Links families with children birth to three (3) years with developmental delays/disabilities to resources and to coordinate needed services to enhance their abilities. 
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.

 

Big Brothers / Big Sisters

Telephone Number:  504-231-7733

http://www.bbbssela.ctpllc.com/

Community Based Mentoring Program – Children of Hope:  Provide mentoring and one-to-one relationships with volunteers and at-risk kids predominantly from single parent families and those affected by Hurricane Katrina to “normalize” the many challenges that they face.

 

Boy Scouts – SELA

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

Telephone Number:  504-566-0707

http://www.bgca.org/

Youth Development Program:  Provides a safe place with caring adult professionals offering after-school, social, recreational, and character building programs for youths.
Diamond ‘450’ Community Center: In partnership with Save the Children, Emergency Community, Boys & Girls Clubs, YMCA will operate a community center at the Diamond Park Trailer Park in Plaquemines Parish.  Services include counseling services, community building, after school child care, computer learning center, youth center, summer day camp, community meeting space, limited recreational programs, and meals.  

 

Bright Preschool for the Deaf

Telephone Number:  504-897-2145

Early Intervention:  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/

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:  504-371-7747

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.
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 of Louisiana

Telephone Number:  504-309-9317

http://www.cityyear.org/sites/louisiana/

Young Heroes Civic Leadership Program: Develops middle-school youth into emerging civic leaders through community service and an interactive curriculum that focuses on social and community issues.

 

Community Service Center

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. 

 

Dryades YMCA

Telephone Number:  504-522-8811 and 299-4310

http://www.dryadesymca.com/

Day Care:  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. 

Emergency Communities

Telephone Number: 917-422-8900

http://www.emergencycommunities.org/

Goin’ Home Café: A free kitchen, community center, and rebuilding depot offering nutritious meals, a sense of community and support for Lower Ninth residents still overwhelmed by the challenges of recovery and rebuilding. 
Diamond ‘450’ Community Center: In partnership with Save the Children, Emergency Community, Boys & Girls Clubs, YMCA will operate a community center at the Diamond Park Trailer Park in Plaquemines Parish.  Services include counseling services, community building, after school child care, computer learning center, youth center, summer day camp, community meeting space, limited recreational programs, and meals.  

Epilepsy Foundation of Southeast Louisiana

Telephone Number:  1-800-960-0587

http://www.epilepsyfoundation.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/Domestic Violence:  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. 

Fast Forward Restart

Telephone Number: 404-446-1875

http://www.nola500.org/

 

Fast Forward Restart: Is a special program to assist Non Profit Organizations in refocusing and rebuilding their services in the new social service environment with the support of experienced business consultants and coaches.

 

Foundation for the LSU Health Sciences Center

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.

 

Girl Scout Council of SELA

Telephone Number: 504-733-8220

http://www.girlscoutssela.org/

H.U.G.S. – Healing, Understanding, Getting Ready, Staying Strong:  Through a patch program in Emergency Preparedness and Hurricane Awareness, participating Girl Scouts will learn to cope with the stress and grief associated with the loss suffered as a result of Hurricane Katrina.  Girls will also have the opportunity to create their own “Emergency Kit” and attend support sessions.  

 

Good Will Institute Hospice

Telephone Number:  985-781-4730

http://www.goodwillhospice.org/

 

Home Hospice Care for Uninsured Citizens:  Provide quality home care for terminally ill individuals in a familiar surrounding, reduce caregiver tension and worry.  Also will provide social services, physician, nurse, and home care aide home visits. 

 

Goodwill Industries

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

http://www.goodwillno.org/

 

Workforce Development Services- Opportunities for People:   Offer opportunities to people with disabilities and other barriers to employment; specifically provide career planning, support services to overcome barriers to employment through direct services or referrals, Culinary Arts training for the food service industry, job readiness training, job placement and retention services.  

 

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.

 

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. 

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. 

 

Jewish Community Center

Telephone Number:  504-897-0143

http:/www./nojcc.com/

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 Social Development:  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/

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:  337-332-0252

http://www.jtra.org/

JTRA:  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 located in Lakeview, Gentilly, and New Orleans East 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.  

 

Louisiana Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped

Telephone Number:  504-899-6440

http://nfdh.org/joomla_nfdh/content/view/65/102

 

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

Telephone Number: 504-373-6483  

www.9thwardnena.org

NENA Neighborhood 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 Housing Program: A holistic housing development program for residents of the Lower 9th Ward that is comprised of three integrated elements: a housing action plan based on previous completed data collection and planning; the establishment of a low-interest forgivable loan fund with flexible underwriting guidelines to help bridge the financing gaps experienced by community members; and the establishment of a Community Design Studio to provide architectural solutions free of charge to families rebuilding in the neighborhood. 

 

Mental Health Association of St. Tammany

Telephone Number: 985-290-7002

http://www.mhast.org/

Mental Health Association Triage Team (MHATT): Provide mental health counseling and services to individuals/families in crisis/stress. 

 

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.

 

Neighborhood Housing Services

Telephone Number: 504-899-5900

 http://www.nhsnola.org/

Post-Disaster Homeownership, Financial Fitness and Road Home Counseling: Offering individual counseling sessions, in person and over the phone, for families in need of post-disaster financial counseling.  Current post-Katrina counseling includes homeownership counseling, both pre and post purchase – in general and specifically related to providing gap funds and escrowing funds for safekeeping and payment to contractors;  financial fitness counseling that helps people improve credit, make sound financial decisions in the confusing post-K environment, and become homebuyers or otherwise find safe and affordable housing; and one-on-one counseling geared toward helping families make sound decisions regarding the best use of “Road Home” funds and other recovery-related financial solutions.
Community Building Initiative: Has two neighborhood-based community centers, (Ferret neighborhood and Seventh Ward) that create spaces for neighbors to come together and reconnect, organize, participate in the rebuilding of their lives and neighborhoods, access information and referrals to services available in the city, increase neighborhood advocacy in the planning and reconstruction of the city, and to work together to solve challenges in their communities.

 

New Orleans Mission

Telephone Number:  504-523-2116

http://www.neworleansmission.org/

Transitional Housing & Relocation Assistance:  Offering free transitional housing for up to 18 months, free meals and clothing, free laundry services, a free health clinic, a limited rehabilitation program for men, free education and employment services, and free relocation assistance including transportation, case management, free groceries and furniture, and free employment counseling and support. 

 

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. 

 

NOMACC (New Orleans Ministry and Care Center)

Telephone Number:  504-279-8100

http://www.nomacc.org

New Orleans Ministry & Care Center:  Disaster Relief Organization providing house gutting, remodeling, rebuilding, housing volunteers, feeding workers, offering supplies through distribution, offering children mental and spiritual care and warehousing supplies. 

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. 

 

Raintree Children and Families

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. 

St. Bernard Battered Women’s Program

Telephone Number:  504-277-3177

Domestic Violence Housing and Child Care Initiative:  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:  504-277-6831

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 ARC (STARC)

Telephone Number: 985-674-0197

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. 

Second Harvesters Food Bank

Telephone Number:  504-734-1322

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 La. 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. 

 

Travelers Aid Society

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

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.

Employment Services:  Assist in placing/re-placing individuals with developmental disabilities into employment as well as supporting individuals who are currently employed to maintain employment. 

 

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 GNO

Telephone Number:  225-928-7689

http://www.urbanleagueneworleans.org/

Urban Empowerment Program:  Bridges the skills and educational gap of at-risk young adults between the ages of 18-24 and transitions them into the mainstream economy.  Participants receive intensive and accelerated support towards achievement of their General Educated Diploma (GED) and Vocational/Apprentice Training with a specific focus on high demand industries and provides direct job placement opportunities in positions earning no less than $7/hour.

 

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

Reconnecting Families:  Connect students with positive activities to reduce juvenile crime.  Targets 5th – 8th grade students attending Einstein Charter School providing case management services and positive activities to reduce negative behaviors and increase academic achievement. 

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

Telephone Number:  504-483-3557

http://www.voagno.org

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 GNO

Telephone Number:  504-568-9622

http://www.ymcaneworleans.org/

 

West St. Tammany YMCA Childcare Centers:  Provides full day care and after school care for low income families in Mandeville and Covington.
Diamond “450”  Community Center:  In partnership with Save the Children, Emergency Community, Boys & Girls Clubs, YMCA will operate a community center at the Diamond Park Trailer Park in Plaquemines Parish.  Services include counseling services, community building, after school child care, computer learning center, youth center, summer day camp, community meeting space, limited recreational programs, and meals.  

 

Youth Service Bureau of St. Tammany

Telephone Number:  985-893-6113

http://www.ysbworks.com/

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. 

 

 
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