American Red Cross, St. Bernard Chapter

Response, Relief and Recovery : Long term response, relief and recovery efforts to provide basic needs (housing, food, clothing, financial and medical), trauma supports 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

Case Management : Works in partnership with other nonprofit agencies that provide case management services to assist individuals in need to locate available assistance.

Emergency Assistance : 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 Preparedness & Planning : Development of a hurricane response plan to include evacuation strategies for residents, especially those living in FEMA villages, to prepare for the upcoming hurricane season. Also, to rain volunteers and hold educational and informational meetings in communities to better prepare residents.

Health & Safety Education Courses : Empowers people to care for themselves and others post-Katrina through health and safety courses such as first aid, CPR, lifeguard training, and family care giving.

Arc of Greater New Orleans

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.

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

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 assisting 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

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

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

Bright Preschool for the Deaf

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

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.

Tangipahoa Cancer Patient Services : Assist cancer patients in Tangipahoa who formerly received treatment at Charity Hospital in New Orleans with transportation to new treatment locations. Also continue to provide cancer patients access to necessary supports and medication.

CASA – New Orleans

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 Community Services

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.

Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans

Operation Helping Hands helps a significant number of needy homeowners reoccupy their houses through the use of large scale volunteers mobilized with the parish network of the Archdiocese.

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.

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.

Child Advocacy Services

Prepared, Not Scared – Parent Guide to Preparing Children for Hurricane Season : Provides individual and family counseling, group counseling, and educational awareness initiatives to children and families recovering from abuse and victimization. The Guide is a written resource for families to appropriately address naturally occurring emotions children face in the preparation and wake of the upcoming hurricane season.

Children’s Bureau of New Orleans

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.

Community Center of St. Bernard Parish

Community Center Start Up : 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 artist, 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 Service Center

Jobs NOW! : 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)

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

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

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

Plaquemines Parish Free Kitchen and Community Center : Provides free meals, groceries, and clothing, laundry service, free internet and long distance, information, as well as a kids space, first aid care, and a safe warm space for returning residents to gather in Buras, Louisiana. Also continuing to provide the same service in St. Bernard Parish.

Epilepsy Foundation of Southeast Louisiana

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

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

LA. Cancer Survivor Project of the Louisiana Cancer Control Programs : Provide cancer patients with their own electronic version of their medical records for personal hurricane preparedness and medical record management. Also, have established a Survivor Clinic for stable cancer clients from the area to receive follow-up services locally and reduce their travel burdens.

Girl Scout Council of SELA

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

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

Opportunity for People : Working with evacuees and returning residents with disabilities to access services, obtain basic needs such as clothing and household articles through the use of Goodwill store vouchers, career planning and training/retraining, job placement, and retention services. Working with Job 1 in New Orleans, Workforce Connection in Jefferson, and other workforce development offices in other parishes.

Grace House of New Orleans, Inc.

Long-Term Residential Treatment Program for Women : Residential substance abuse treatment services for chemically dependent women.

Greater New Orleans Nonprofit Knowledge Works

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

Habitat for Humanity Restore : Collects and sell 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.

Hispanic Apostolate

Job Services : Assist returning and new Hispanic residents find employment, English as a Second Language (ESL) education and to help provide workshops for new/existing businesses – as well as referrals for financial assistance, safety equipment and education.

House of Ruth

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.

Jewish Community Center

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

Youth Services : Serves the youth of Greater New Orleans area through a myriad of supervised programs focused on positive social interaction among child, 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.

Elderly Services : 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

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.

Kingsley House

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, afterschool 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

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

Louisiana Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped

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

Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans

Post-Disaster Financial Counseling : Offering individual counseling sessions, in person or over the phone, for families in need of post-disaster financial counseling. Also, one-on-one counseling specifically geared toward helping families make sound decisions regarding the best use of Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA) funds and other recovery-related financial solutions.

New Orleans Speech & Hearing

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

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.

Operation Clean Sweep

Don’t be Seedy…Erase Graffiti Training Program : Training ex-offenders to be self-employed by being skilled professional painters while also eliminating graffiti in the identified areas in New Orleans.

Raintree Children and Families

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.

Safe Harbor, Inc

Domestic Violence Program : 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. Tammany ARC (STARC)

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.

Adult Services : Provide adult day care and habilitation, work adjustment/work training/job coaching/supported employment to those with mental retardation in St. Tammany & other Florida parishes.

Noah’s ARC Child Day Care Center : Provide early intervention and childcare services to special needs and typical children from birth through five in St. Tammany and other Florida parishes.

St. Tammany Parish Department of Community Action

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

Disaster Recovery and Relief : Provide an array of social service assistance, including financial and physical assistance, holiday assistance, referral services, and emotional and grief counseling.

Second Harvest

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.

Tangipahoa Voluntary Council on Aging

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

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

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 Servi ces : 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

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

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.

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)

Rebuilding and Preparing : Provide workshops to parents about Hurricane preparedness and planning. Also will provide assistance to families/individuals with essential housing needs.

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.

Volunteers of America

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.

Affordable Housing Now : Provide up to 70 units of rental housing in the downtown area of New Orleans to low to moderate income citizens returning.

YMCA of GNO

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

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 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.