American Red Cross –St. Bernard
Disaster Relief: Rebuilding and re-designing the agency’s ability to respond in disaster and to provide programming, inclusive of a lessons learned report. Additionally, grant will assist with electronic and print media for volunteer recruitment campaign and community meetings.
Disaster Recovery and Education: Facilitate access to needed services with collaborative partners and use of the Client Assistance Network (CAN); work in FEMA villages to help develop a sense of community, and access to services.
Emergency Assistance: Direct assistance to individuals from fires, which has increased in hurricane impacted areas.
American Red Cross–Southeast Louisiana
Disaster Relief: Rebuilding and re-designing the agency’s ability to respond in disaster and to provide programming, inclusive of a lessons learned report. Additionally, grant will assist with electronic and print media for volunteer recruitment campaign and community meetings.
Disaster Recovery and Education: Facilitate access to needed services with collaborative partners and use of the Client Assistance Network (CAN); work in FEMA villages to help develop a sense of community, and access to services.
Emergency Assistance: Direct assistance to individuals from fires, which has increased in hurricane impacted areas.
Big Brothers / Big Sisters of Southeast Louisiana
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Southeast Louisiana facilitates one to one relationships between volunteers, who serve as friends and role models, and children. The agency serves 12 parishes in southeast Louisiana.
Boy Scouts – Istrouma
Scouting : Continuation of Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, Venturing, and Exploring programs to youth, maintaining continuity in the lives of returning youth evacuees.
Boy Scouts – SELA
Leadership & Career Development: Provide educational programs for boys and girls ages 6 to 20. This program instills values, builds self-esteem, and prepares them to make ethical choices over their lifetime through work with adult role models in activities. Maintaining continuity in the lives of returning youth evacuees.
Boys & Girls Clubs of SELA
Youth Development Program: Provide youth development programs to youth in all parishes in temporary locations and schools.
Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans
Cancer Relief Program: Provide services in clinics to evacuees in and around New Orleans.
Patient Services: Assist with prescriptions and emergency assistance needs of uninsured cancer patients. Emergency assistance includes: transportation to treatment, utility assistance, burial fees, cancer treatment, etc. as hospitals come on line.
Catholic Charities
Counseling Solutions: Individual family and group counseling focused on survivors of Hurricane Katrina, particularly on parent and parent/child issues – including substance abuse and domestic violence. Providing services in Metairie, Slidell, Disaster Recovery Center in Chalmette, St. John the Baptist Church (Central Business District), and Hope Haven. Also provide emergency assistance services.
Head Start: Education, food, and nutrition services to returning children ages 0 – 5 years old at St. John the Baptist, integrating the Head Start model.
Domestic Violence: Community-based services to hurricane survivors of domestic violence: emergency services, counseling, children’s services, as well as identifying and meeting the needs of returning evacuees.
Adult Day Health Care: Provides nutritional meals, health screenings, medications, and general support to returning elderly and infirmed individuals in Alpha House in Covington and the Greenwalt Center in Kenner.
Deaf Action Center: Provides limited equipment distribution, increased sign language, disaster relief issues, and counseling to pre and post Katrina affected individuals and identifying and meeting the needs of returning evacuees.
Emergency Shelter / Housing and Relocation Assistance: Emergency shelter and relocation assistance, employment assistance, identifying and meeting the needs of the homeless and returning evacuees.
Children’s Bureau
Project LAST and Family Counseling: Counseling and trauma services combined – important due to aftermath of Katrina. Provide services to clients will be seen in their homes, shelters, schools, churches, trailer communities, and/or other locations per client’s request, if necessary.
Community Service Center
Ex-Offender Rehabilitation: Services to those released from prison to direct them to employment and not back into crime so that they can be productive citizens to help us rebuild our community.
Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (CADA)
Drug Intervention: Provide substance abuse prevention services in schools and community…crisis counseling, supportive counseling in neighborhoods as they re-open.
Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) – New Orleans
CASA: Court Appointed Special Advocates for children in foster care: locate children and volunteers, staff provision of monitoring services as needed – report directly to judges until courts re-open.
Covington Rotary
Feeding the Needy: Feed approximately 3,000 people for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Dryades YMCA
Day Care: 1 of 3 post-Katrina childcare centers providing services in the New Orleans area.
Youth Development Outreach Initiative: Youth development enrichment services to include academic enrichment, career preparation, camping, and after-school activities to returning students.
East St. Tammany Rainbow Child Care Center
Telephone Number: 985-646-0718
Child Care Center: Provide childcare in St. Tammany to residents and hurricane evacuees.
Epilepsy Foundation
Positive Approaches to Living with Epilepsy: Information and referral, patient assistance, and 24 hour hotline to returning evacuees.
Family Service of GNO
Counseling: Provide counseling to general public in the Greater New Orleans Area and in evacuee communities. Also, provide information and referral and presentations.
Counseling: 1st Responders – St. Bernard Parish: Provide trauma debriefing, crisis intervention, support to 1st responders, and school-based interventions.
At-Risk Children and Youth : After school curriculum-based program that reduces risk of youth entering juvenile justice system…to be implemented at two (2) schools in Jefferson Parish (1 Eastbank, 1 Westbank) with anger management component in St. Bernard, when schools re-open.
Girl Scout Council of SELA
Girl Scouts: Provision of Girl Scout programming in traditional parishes as well as to displaced girls in Lafayette and Baton Rouge. Incorporating a new component/badge: “Rebuilding our Community.”
GNO Nonprofit Knowledge Works
Advancing the Field of Nonprofit Management: Develop community-based services as a network. Organize, collect, and share information as a resource tool to help the agency restructure based on Hurricane Katrina needs.
Goodwill IndustriesI
Opportunity for People : Identify and meet the needs of evacuees with disabilities, goodwill store vouchers for those outside hurricane damaged areas, career planning and training, job placement, and retention services in Baton Rouge, Hammond, Gonzales, and Denham Springs. Also identify and meet the needs of evacuees with other disabilities and other disadvantages to obtain employment, basic needs such as clothing and household articles, housing, and jobs.
Hispanic Apostolate
Job Services: Helps returning Hispanic community find employment, English as a second language (ESL) education and help to provide workshops for new/existing businesses – as well as referrals for financial assistance, safety equipment and education.
House of Ruth
Transitional Housing: Locating the families of previous clients, checking on dwelling status and assist in locating alternative housing, if needed – identifying and meeting the needs of returning evacuees.
Jewish Community Center
Day Care: Provide substitute care to prior and hurricane impacted children with working parents.
Jewish Family Service
Counseling: Provide multi-generational family units and donors with counseling services.
Family Life Education – Teen Life Counts: Teach suicide prevention with an emphasis on the effects of trauma and appropriate ways of coping with grief and loss.
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).
Kingsley House, Inc.
Resettlement and Resource Center : Collaborative work to assist returning evacuees using Walker Talker model as a base for assessing client’s needs, adult and child day care, counseling, computer lab, etc.
Legal Aid Bureau
Legal Aid: Provision of legal services to evacuees in Alexandria, Louisiana and Algiers especially around insurance and rental issues in addition to usual case load.
Lindy’s Place
Transitional Housing: Provide transitional housing for hurricane affected women from Orleans parish.
New Orleans Legal Assistance/Southeast Louisiana Legal Services
Legal Assistance for Disaster Victims: Provision of disaster related legal services to six-parish residents – loss of housing, denials of government assistance, problems with creditors, etc. Also outreach to Disaster Recovery Centers (DRCs).
New Orleans Speech & Hearing
Outpatient Rehabilitation – Adults: Assessments of hearing loss and hearing aid dispensing and repair to returning evacuees.
Outpatient Rehabilitation – Children: Assessment and treatment of communications disorders for children birth to 17 years, as they return from hurricane Katrina.
NO/AIDS Task Force
Medical Relief: Re-establish some of their programs and services available to returning individuals and families living with HIV in the Greater New Orleans Area and its Primary Medical program. Provide medication to 75 individuals. Also to replace damaged equipment in the Food for Friends building.
Odyssey House
Residential Program: Residential treatment services for substance abusers, including women and children (due to Katrina, expanding from 61 beds to 120.)
Raintree Children and Families
Raintree Family Care: Work with Department of Social Services to provide foster home services for Louisiana children, provide therapeutic and behavioral services, and provide educational support to children in the GNO area and on the Northshore.
School of Urban Missions
School of Urban Missions: Distribution of donated goods. Will coordinate work with United Way and Second Harvest, when necessary.
Second Harvest
Surplus Food Distribution: Provide food and supplies through a network of partner agencies throughout the Greater New Orleans 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.
St. Bernard Battered Women Center
Domestic Violence: Provide individual counseling to women and children, safety planning, legal advocacy, children services, job referrals in the GNO area, specifically for returning evacuees in St. Bernard and Plaquemines parish.
St. Tammany ARC (STARC)
Early Intervention: Provide early intervention services to special needs and typical children from birth through five in St. Tammany and other Florida parishes.
Adult Day Program: Provide adult day care and job coaching and training to pre-Katrina program participants and evacuees with mental retardation in St. Tammany & other Florida parishes.
24 Hour Division: Provide in-home personal care, respite care, community residential homes living skills training, and independent living assistance to individuals with mental retardation in St. Tammany & other Florida parishes. They anticipate a 30% increase in clients, due to post-Katrina temporary population shifts.
St. Tammany Parish Department of Community Action
Emergency Assistance: Provide assistance to hurricane victims by allocating vouchers to replace necessities, assist with utility payments, emergency assistance, and transportation, and to provide emergency medical assistance.
The Arc of GNO
Early Intervention: Provide early intervention services to children birth to 3 years with developmental delays/disabilities as they return to their community.
Employment Services: In response to the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the workforce, will match unemployed individuals with local businesses in order to address work force needs; provide increased job development, training, and outreach to clients. Services will expand to individuals who are economically disadvantaged, temporarily homeless or displaced long term from highly affected hurricane areas in need of immediate employment.
Family Service Coordination: Provide services to hurricane affected children and families wherever the family is located. Serves Jefferson, Orleans, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines Parishes.
Respite and Supported Living : Provides care for pre and post Katrina persons, with a developmental disability, on a planned or emergency basis, provides an opportunity for program participants to engage in social or leisure activities outside of the home, and assists adults to improve skills in many areas such as decision making, money management, daily living skills, mobility, etc.
The Salvation Army
Disaster Recovery and Relief : Establish a Disaster Recovery Center in collaboration with the City & Office of Emergency Preparedness in the Greater New Orleans Area to provide financial and physical assistance, holiday assistance, referral services, and emotional and grief counseling.
Travelers Aid Society
Crisis Intervention Counseling: Continue providing crisis counseling, long-term planning, emergency food, clothing, and shelter services. Expanding services to include financial assistance for rent/mortgage, utilities, household items, and long distance transportation by working with its National organization and Greyhound bus service.
SELF-Help Employment : Provide job search counseling, support groups, identification cards, bus tokens, work clothes/tools, voice mail services, resume’ preparation, phone/internet/computer access, food, shelter, and other necessary services to hurricane evacuees
United Cerebral Palsy of GNO
Children’s Services : Provide special instruction, physical, occupational, and speech therapy to returning children ages birth to 3 who have developmental disabilities in Orleans, Jefferson, Plaquemines, St. John, St. Tammany, St. Charles, and Tangipahoa parishes.
United Negro College Fund
Emergency Assistance Fund: Provide financial assistance to returning students at Xavier and Dillard Universities during periods of unavoidable family crises and emergencies.
Urban League of GNO
Case Management & Housing: Provide housing assistance to evacuees in Baton Rouge and the New Orleans area while also identifying and meeting the needs of returning evacuees.
Employment & Economic Development: Provide training and employment placement for hurricane affected, unemployed adults. Also provide business training and consulting for small businesses seeking assistance or those starting small businesses.
VIA LINK, Inc.
2-1-1: Expansion of the VIA LINK Call Center services to provide crisis counseling, information & referral, and suicide prevention, with up-to-date service information in the changing post-Katrina environment
Visiting Nurses Association
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 to better meet needs of returning evacuees.
Disaster Relief Nursing: Provide preventive and acute care nursing services to all returning members of the community.
Volunteers of America of GNO
Lighthouse: A youth development program geared towards returning students aged 5 - 11 in grades K – 6.
Volunteer Coordination: Connect persons with volunteer groups and individuals to help with the recovery process.
YMCA of GNO
West St. Tammany YMCA Childcare Programs: Provide more families with financial assistance for full day care and after school care in Mandeville and Covington, due to a population increase after hurricane Katrina.
Youth Service Bureau of St. Tammany
Options / Clinical Services: Clinical services to include addictive disorders to the St. Tammany population and Hurricane Katrina evacuees. Ort
CASA: Advocate in court for the well-being and safety of hurricane affected children in foster care in St. Tammany parish.
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.
Families in Need of Services (FINS): Provides resources and supports to pre and post Katrina families with children/adolescents whose behavior is ungovernable.
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