American Red Cross, St. Bernard Chapter

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

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

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. 

Disaster Resiliency & Coping:  Development of a hurricane response plan to include evacuation strategies for residents, especially those living in FEMA trailers, to be prepared for disasters.  Also, to train volunteers and hold educational and informational meetings in communities to better prepare residents for disasters. 

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

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. 

Big Brothers / Big Sisters

Telephone Number: 504 309-7304

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

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

Youth Development Program:  Provides a safe place with caring adult professionals offering after-school, social, recreational, and character building programs for youths. 

Diamond Park Community Center:  In partnership with Save the Children, Emergency Community and YMCA, Boys & Girls Club will provide after school, social, recreational, and character building youth programs once a week at the community center at the Diamond Park Trailer Park in Plaquemines Parish for hurricane victims.  

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 cochlear implant children. 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

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

CASA-Court Appointed Special Advocate:  Provides quality advocacy for children in the foster care system.   Volunteer Advocate 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

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. 

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] -Job Services:  Assist returning and new Hispanic residents with a wide array of services, including find employment, English as a Second Language (ESL) education, workers’ rights, tax preparation advocacy/financial decision-making. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Project Fleur-de-Lis: Collaborative focused on prevention, school counseling, and comprehensive mental/behavioral health care within the Catholic School System.   For more information visit their website at www.project-fleur-de-lis.org.

Telephone Numbers:  985-542-9896

Tangipahoa Cares Program:  Provides disaster relief services including rental/mortgage assistance, emergency shelter, utility assistance, prescription assistance, food, and transportation assistance to those affected by the disaster within the boundaries of Tangipahoa Parish. 

Children’s Bureau of New Orleans

Telephone Number: 504-525-2366

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:  225-389-0078

New Orleans Pilot Program:  Will engage middle and high school students in rebuilding their communities by offering 100 participants the opportunity to participate in six months of intensive leadership development training and community service activities. 

Community Center of St. Bernard Parish

Telephone Number: 504-617-2580

Community Center:  Located in St. Bernard Parish, the Community Center will provide residents with a place to meet and socialize, be a clearinghouse for visiting volunteers, and act as a venue for local artists, speakers and performers.  Currently they are providing residents with donated goods and a shared, healthy meal each evening.  Also providing free laundry facilities, free phone and internet access. 

Community Christian Concern of Slidell

Telephone Number:  985-646-0357

Emergency Assistance:  Provide emergency assistance to individuals with true needs – food, clothing, shelter, child care, utility bills, personal items, construction materials, etc.

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

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:  504-587-0903

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

Plaquemines Parish Free Kitchen and Community Center:  Provides free meals, groceries, clothing, laundry service, free internet and long distance, information, as well as a kid’s space, first aid care, and a safe warm space for returning residents to gather in Buras, Louisiana. 

Epilepsy Foundation of Southeast Louisiana

Telephone Number: 1-800-960-0587

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

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. 

Foundation for the LSU Health Sciences Center

Telephone Number:  1-888-599-1073

Louisiana Cancer Control Programs:  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

Telephone Number:  504-241-4094

Gilda’s for Infant/Toddler Care:  Provides early childhood education and childcare for youngsters six weeks to three years. 

Girl Scout Council of SELA

Telephone Number: 504-733-8220

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

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

Opportunity 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. 

Grace Child Center, Inc.

Telephone Number:  504-488-6849

Grace Child Center: Provides early childhood education and childcare for pre-school and school-age children (2-12) from low income families in the Mid-City area. 

Greater New Orleans Nonprofit Knowledge Works

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

Habitat for Humanity Restore & Home Construction:  Collects and sells building materials, both used goods and surplus materials, at a much lower price to the public.  Materials include lumber, windows, doors, cabinets, paint, plumbing supplies, bricks, drywall, floor covering, light fixtures, electrical equipment, roofing supplies and other assorted building materials.  Also plans to construct 50 homes in 2007 in St. Tammany Parish.             

Happy Kids

Telephone Number:  281-880-6400

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

Transitional Housing:  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:  504-810-6913

Child Care:  Provides early childhood education and childcare for toddlers and pre-schoolers. 

Inter-American Restoration Corp

Telephone Number:  985-517-1581

IRC Katrina Relief:  Coordinate, train, house, and provide meals to volunteers.  Conduct needs assessment-interviewing home owners, assessing physical damage, prioritizing needs and coordinating volunteer work crews to meet the needs of the homeowner. 

Jewish Community Center

Telephone Number: 504-897-0143

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

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. 

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. 

Jewish Family Service

Telephone Number: 504-831-8475

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. 

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. 

Telephone Number:  337-332-0252

JTRA:  Provide hot lunches and groceries to the Greater New Orleans Area.

Katrina Reconstruction Resource Center

Telephone Number: 

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

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:  Provision of free legal services to low income residents of the Greater New Orleans Area. 

Louisiana Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped

Telephone Number:  504-899-6440

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

LSU Health Sciences Center/City Of New Orleans Dept. of Public Health/Touro Hospital

Telephone Number:  504-568-8448

Prenatal Care Program:  Provide prenatal care to low-income women of New Orleans.  Located at Touro Hospital and staffed by LSUHSC physicians. 

National Kidney Foundation

Telephone Number:  504-861-4500

People Like Us: Stepping Back into Life: Located in the 17 dialysis centers currently in operation in Jefferson, Orleans, and St. Bernard parishes to help patients overcome depression related to kidney disease but also their lives in the aftermath of Katrina.

New Orleans Mission

Telephone Number:  504-523-2116

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

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

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

NO/AIDS Task Force

Telephone Number: 504-821-2601

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

NOMACC (New Orleans Ministry and Care Center)

Telephone Number:  504-821-2601

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

Odyssey House

Residential Substance Abuse Program: Provides residential substance abuse treatment to individuals 18 and over, including mothers with children.  They provide addiction therapy, GED training and education, employment training, parenting classes, job training, skill building, and physical and mental health care.

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.

Our Daily Bread

Telephone Number:  985-542-4676

Katrina Park Project:  Partnering with Catholic Charities, Volunteers of America, and Baton Rouge Food Bank to provide services as well as food to displaced residents in the FEMA trailer parks in Tangipahoa Parish.  

Queen of Peace Garden’s Foundation, Inc.

Telephone Number:  504-439-9941

Life Educational Aftercare Program (LEAP):  Provides an after care support system to post incarcerated youth in St. Bernard Parish. 

Raintree Children and Families

Telephone Number: 504-899-9045

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 Project

Telephone Number:  504-272-2290

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: 985-674-1998

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.  

Adult Services:  Provide assessments, training, supports, and employment opportunities to adults with disabilities to enable them to become self-sufficient, to function more independently in work and daily living and to 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. 

St. Tammany Parish Department of Community Action

Telephone Number: 985-646-2090

Relief, Recovery, and Rebuild:  Partnering with Northshore Disaster Recovery Inc. to provide home repairs to low income individuals focusing on the needy and elderly so that they will have safe, decent, and stable housing. 

The Salvation Army

Telephone Number: 504-835-7220 or 985-781-3580

Relief, Recovery, & Rebuilding:  Hosting a volunteer village to provide housing, laundry, and meals to volunteers helping in the rebuild efforts.

Second Harvest

Telephone Number: 504-734-1322

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

Emergency Shelter Grant – Prevention of Homelessness:  Provide low-income residents with legal representation in legal disputes to prevent homelessness.  Services include: 1) providing legal help to tenants in both public and private housing to stop or delay evictions through litigation and negotiation; 2) mediating disputes between landlords and tenants that could lead to eviction regarding charges; 3) resolving disputes between homeowners and lien holders; and 4) overcoming legal obstacles to obtaining FEMA housing assistance and other housing assistance programs. 

Tangipahoa Voluntary Council on Aging

Telephone Number: 985-748-7486

Tangipahoa Public Transportation:  Provide transportation funds for evacuees in Tangipahoa parish who are unable to pay the remaining 50% or $7/one-way trip cash fare to the doctor, grocery store, social security, and other federal and state agencies. 

Travelers Aid Society

Telephone Number:  504-584-1107

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

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: 504-620-2332

Case Management & Housing:  Provide case management and housing assistance to evacuees in Baton Rouge and the New Orleans area.  Services include helping to locate appropriate housing, some financial assistance, and credit and housing information that can prepare evacuees for home ownership. 

Employment & Economic Development:  Provide training and employment placement for unemployed adults.  Also provide business training and consulting for small businesses seeking assistance or those starting small businesses. 

VIA LINK, Inc.

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

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

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

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: 504-888-9622

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

Diamond Park 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

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.