American Red Cross, St. Bernard Chapter

Response, Relief, and Recovery: Long term response, relief and recovery effort 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 conjunction with partner agencies involved in case management to assist members of the community to locate available assistance.

Emergency Assistance: Direct assistance to individuals from fires, which has increased in hurricane impacted areas .

Disaster Preparednes: Development of a hurricane response plan to include evacuation strategies for residents, especially those in FEMA villages, to prepare for the upcoming hurricane season.

Long Term Disaster Response: Continues to serve approximately 10,000 meals each day in the Southeast Louisiana region, along with the distribution of bulk cleaning supplies and items such as blankets and bottled water.

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

The ARC of Greater New Orleans

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

Family Service Coordination: Link families with children birth to 3 years with developmental delays/disabilities to services they may need to enhance their abilities. Serves Jefferson, Orleans, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines Parishes.

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.

Employment Services: Assists in placing/re-placing individuals into employment as well as supporting individuals who are currently employed to maintain their jobs.

Project Help: Provides people with disabilities the opportunity to grow and live to their fullest potential, by offering supports and services that are person-centered, community and home based.

Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Southeast Louisiana

Community Based Program: Provides quality caring and nurturing mentors to children affected by Hurricane Katrina, to “normalize” the many challenges that the community faces.

Boy Scouts of America – SELA

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

Boys and Girls Clubs of SELA, Inc.

Youth Development: Provides youth development programs to youth in all parishes in temporary locations and schools.

The Bright Preschool for the Deaf

Early Intervention: Provides services to deaf, hard of hearing and language delayed children from birth to 3 years of age, in an effort to develop better speech and language communication skills.

Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans

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.

Patient Services: Provides cancer patients access to necessary supports, also terminally ill patients access to palliative medications.

Cancer Education, Trauma Services: Provides educational seminars and presentations to schools and community groups on topics such as early detection of cancer, stress management, tobacco education, smoking cessation, and nutrition.

Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans

Project Fleur-de-Lis: A catholic school-based, comprehensive mental health care program designed to provide long-term care and recovery following Hurricane Katrina.

Adult Day Health Care: Provides nutritional meals, health screenings, medications, and general support to returning elderly and infirm individuals in Alpha House in Covington and the Greenwalt Center in Kenner.

AIDS Services: Provides rent/utility assistance, housing counseling, homelessness prevention, peer counseling, and support groups to returning persons living with HIV/AIDS.

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. Provides services in Metairie, Slidell, Disaster Recovery Center in Chalmette, St. John the Baptist Church (Central Business District), and Hope Haven. Also provides emergency assistance services.

Head Start: Educational and nutritional services to returning children ages 0-5 years old at St. John the Baptist, integrating the Head Start model.

Emergency Shelters / Housing Relocation Assistance: Emergency shelter and relocation assistance, employment assistance, identifying and meeting the needs of the homeless and returning evacuees.

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.

Deaf Action Center: Provides limited equipment distribution, increased sign language interpretation for case management, disaster relief issues, and counseling to pre and post Katrina affected individuals.

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.

Children’s Bureau of New Orleans

LAST/Child and Family: 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 Service Center, Inc.

Jobs NOW: 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 rebuild their community.

Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse for Greater New Orleans, Inc.

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

Dryades Young Men’s Christian Association

Day Care/Children: Provides early childhood education and childcare for youngsters six months to five years.

Youth Development: 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

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

Emergency Communities

Made with Love Café and Grill: Provides free meals, groceries and clothing, as well as a kids space, first aid care, and a safe warm space for returning residents to gather.

Epilepsy Foundation of Southeast Louisiana

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

Family Services of Greater New Orleans

Counseling/Domestic Violence: Provides general counseling and Victims of Crime services to individuals, children and families.

Goodwill Industries of Southeast Louisiana, Inc.

Opportunities for People: Working with evacuees 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

GNO Nonprofit Knowledgeworks

Advancing the field of non-profit management: Working to develop community-based services as a network. Organize, collect, and share information as a resource tool based on Hurricane Katrina needs.

Hispanic Apostolate

Job Services: Helps returning and new Hispanic communities 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, Inc.

House of Ruth: Transitional housing program that assists homeless families with children who have experienced a crisis due to job loss, health issues, fire or other natural disasters.

Jewish Community Center

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

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.

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

Jewish Family Service

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

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.

Lifeline/Homemaker: 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

Kingsley House Resettlement and Resource 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, disabled, and handicapped adults, Medicaid enrollment, food stamp application assistance and vital records application assistance.

New Horizon Youth Service Bureau

Tangi Welcome Program: Assists evacuees in their adjustment to their new community by providing a locally-focused Resource Directory in a Welcome Basket, including small gifts and information about other programs and services available to them.

New Orleans Speech and Hearing Center

Out-Patient Rehabilitation: Adult: Assessments of hearing loss and hearing aid dispensing and repair to returning evacuees.

Out-Patient Rehabilitation: Children: Assessment and treatment of communications disorders for children birth to 17 years, as they return from hurricane Katrina.

NO/AIDS Task Force

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

Odyssey House Louisiana, Inc.

Residential Substance Abuse Program: Residential treatment services for substance abusers, including women and children (due to Hurricane Katrina, expanding from 61 beds to 120)

Community Medical Clinic: Addresses general physical and mental health needs, as well as complicated medical problems.

Plaquemines YMCA, Inc.

Basic Goods Center: Supplies the residents of lower Plaquemines Parish with food and basic goods to be able to start house keeping again.

Raintree Children and Family Services

Raintree Case Management: Provides assistance to families that continue to care for children with disabilities and special needs within their own homes. Also provides support services for adults with disabilities, family service coordination, and early intervention programs for infants and toddlers at risk for developmental disabilities.

St. Bernard Battered Women’s Program

Domestic Violence Program: Assists women and children whose lives have been impacted by domestic violence by providing emergency shelter, crisis counseling, and safety planning.

St. Tammany ARC (STARC)

Early Intervention/ Child Care Center: Provides early intervention and childcare services to special needs and typical children from birth through five in St. Tammany and other Florida parishes.

Adult Services/ Day Program: Provides 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: Provides in-home personal care, respite care, community residential home living skills training, and independent living assistance to individuals with mental retardation in St. Tammany & other Florida parishes.

St. Tammany Parish Deptment of Community Action

Relief, Recovery, Rebuilding: Provides assistance to hurricane victims by allocating vouchers to replace necessities, assist with utility payments, food, emergency assistance, transportation, and to provide emergency medical assistance.

The Salvation Army Area Command

Disaster, Recovery and Relief: Operating a Disaster Recovery Center in collaboration with the City of New Orleans & 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.

Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans, Inc.

Surplus Food Distribution Program: Provides 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.

School of Urban Missions

Relief, Recovery & Rebuilding: A coordinated effort with local churches to distribute donated food/goods to returning evacuees and those in need.

Southeast Spouse Abuse

Case Management/Client Services: Provides supportive, advocacy and referral services to adults surviving domestic violence and their dependent children in Tangipahoa parish.

Tangipahoa Voluntary Council on Aging

Public Transportation: Provides transportation funds for evacuees in Tangipahoa parish, under 60 years of age 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, etc.

Travelers Aid Society of Greater New Orleans

Crisis Intervention/Case Management: Continue to provide crisis counseling, long-term planning, emergency food, clothing, and shelter services. Services are expanding to include financial assistance for rent/mortgage, utilities, household items, and long distance transportation.

Self-Help Program: Provides 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.

UCP of GNO

Children’s Services: Provides special instruction, physical, occupational, and speech therapy to returning children ages birth to 3 who have developmental disabilities in Orleans, Jefferson, Plaquemines, St. Tammany, and Tangipahoa parishes.

United Negro College Fund

Emergency Assistance Fund: Provides financial assistance to returning students at Xavier and Dillard Universities during periods of unavoidable family crises and emergencies to help them stay in school.

Urban League of Greater New Orleans, Inc.

Case Management/Housing Program: Provides housing assistance to evacuees in Baton Rouge and the New Orleans area while also identifying and meeting the needs of returning evacuees.

Employment and Economic Development Program: Provides training and employment placement for hurricane affected, unemployed adults. Also provides business training and consulting for small businesses seeking assistance or those starting small businesses.

VIA LINK

Information and Referral/2-1-1 and Crisis Intervention: 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 of Greater New Orleans, Inc.

Nursing/Home Health: Provides nursing and home health aide services in all 6 parishes to clients in home and/or at the public health clinics.

Volunteers of America of Greater New Orleans, Inc.

Community Capacity: 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.

Lighthouse: A youth development program geared toward returning students aged 5 – 11 in grades K – 6.

YMCA of Greater New Orleans

Child Care Centers: Provides full day care and after school care for low income families in Mandeville and Covington.

Youth Service Bureau of St. Tammany

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.

FINS (Families in Need of Service): Provides resources and supports to pre and post Katrina families with children/adolescents whose behavior in ungovernable.

Options/Clinical Services: Clinical services to include addictive disorders to the St. Tammany population and Hurricane Katrina evacuees.