United Way’s Response
Programs Funded for November 1, 2005 to February 28, 2006

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.

Crisis Intervention/Counseling/Case Management

American Red Cross–Southeast Louisiana

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

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.

American Red Cross–St. Bernard

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

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.

Catholic Charities

Telephone Number: 504-371-7747

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.

Children’s Bureau

Telephone Number: 504-525-2366

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.

Family Service of GNO

Telephone Number: 504-361-0926

Counseling : Provide counseling to general public in the Greater New Orleans Area and in evacuee communities. Also, provide information and referral and presentations.

Counseling: 1 st Responders – St. Bernard Parish: Provide trauma debriefing, crisis intervention, support to 1 st responders, and school-based interventions.

Jewish Family Service

Telephone Number: 504-831-8475

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.

Kingsley House, Inc.

Telephone Number: 504-523-6221, x131

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.

The Salvation Army

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

Travelers Aid Society

Telephone Number: 504-584-1111

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.

Medical Support

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, burial fees, cancer treatment, etc. as hospitals come on line.

Cancer Relief Program: Provide services in clinics to evacuees in and around New Orleans .

Catholic Charities

Telephone Number: 504-371-7747

Epilepsy Foundation

Telephone Number: 800-960-0587

Positive Approaches to Living with Epilepsy : Information and referral, patient assistance, and 24 hour hotline to returning evacuees.

Jewish Family Service

Telephone Number: 504-831-8475

New Orleans Speech & Hearing

Telephone Number: 504-897-2606

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

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

NO/AIDS Task Force

Telephone Number: 504-821-2601

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.

Visiting Nurses Association

Telephone Number: 504-837-0377

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.

Early Child Development

Telephone Number: 504-897-0134

Early Intervention : Provide early intervention services to children birth to 3 years with developmental delays/disabilities as they return to their community.

Catholic Charities

Telephone Number: 504-371-7747

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.

Dryades YMCA

Telephone Number: 504-587-0903

Day Care : 1 of 3 post-Katrina childcare centers providing services in the New Orleans area.

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.

Jewish Community Center

Telephone Number: 504-897-0143

Day Care : Provide substitute care to prior and hurricane impacted children with working parents.

St. Tammany ARC (STARC)

Telephone Number: 985-641-0197

Early Intervention : Provide early intervention services to special needs and typical children from birth through five in St. Tammany and other Florida parishes.

United Cerebral Palsy of GNO

Telephone Number: 985-641-0022

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.

YMCA of GNO

Telephone Number: 504-888-9622

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.

Emergency Shelter/Housing/Food Assistance

American Red Cross–Southeast Louisiana

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

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

American Red Cross–St. Bernard

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

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

Telephone Number: 504-371-7747

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

House of Ruth

Telephone Number: 504-784-1162

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.

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

Telephone Number: 225-928-7689

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.

Covington Rotary

Telephone Number: John Baldwin -- 985-892-2203 or 1-800-533-4308

Feeding the Needy : Feed approximately 3,000 people for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Lindy’s Place

Telephone Number: 504-269-0184

Transitional Housing : Provide transitional housing for hurricane affected women from Orleans parish.

St. Tammany Parish Department of Community Action

Telephone Number: 985-646-2090

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.

Youth Development/Mentoring

Big Brothers / Big Sisters of Southeast Louisiana

Telephone Number: 1-866-305-2626 for southshore; 1-877-305-2001 for northshore

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

Telephone Number: 225-926-2697

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

Telephone Number: 800-394-9410 or 504-889-0388

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

Telephone Number: 504-566-0707

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

Dryades YMCA

Telephone Number: 504-587-0903

Youth Development Outreach Initiative : Youth development enrichment services to include academic enrichment, career preparation, camping, and after-school activities to returning students.

Girl Scout Council of SELA

Telephone Number: 1-800-644-7571

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.”

Volunteers of America of GNO

Telephone Number: 504-835-3005

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

Disaster Learnings & Preparation

American Red Cross – Southeast Louisiana

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

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.

American Red Cross –St. Bernard

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

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.

Employment Services

The Arc of GNO

Telephone Number: 504-897-0134

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.

Community Service Center

Telephone Number: 504-897-6277

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.

Goodwill Industries

Telephone Number: 1-800-664-6577 or 504-482-4173

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

Telephone Number: 504-464-5478, x208

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.

St. Tammany ARC (STARC)

Telephone Number: 985-641-0197

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.

Travelers Aid Society

Telephone Number: 504-584-1111

Urban League of GNO

Telephone Number: 225-928-7689

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.

Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse

Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (CADA)

Telephone Number: 504-362-4272

Drug Intervention : Provide substance abuse prevention services in schools and community…crisis counseling, supportive counseling in neighborhoods as they re-open.

Catholic Charities

Telephone Number: 504-371-7747

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.

Odyssey House

Telephone Number: 504-821-9211

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

Telephone Number: 1-888-411-1333 or 504-231-1247

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.

Telephone Number: 985-893-6113, x112

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

Family Support

The Arc of GNO

Telephone Number: 504-897-0134

Family Service Coordination : Provide services to hurricane affected children and families wherever the family is located. Serves Jefferson , Orleans , St. Bernard, and Plaquemines Parishes.

Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) – New Orleans

Telephone Number: 504-522-1962

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.

Family Service of GNO

Telephone Number: 504-361-0926

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.

Raintree Children and Families

Telephone Number: 504-899-9045

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.

Youth Service Bureau of St. Tammany

Telephone Number: 985-893-6113, x112

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.

Elderly/Disabled

The Arc of GNO

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.

Catholic Charities

Telephone Number: 504-371-7747

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.

St. Tammany ARC (STARC)

Telephone Number: 985-641-0197

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.

Legal Assistance

Legal Aid Bureau

Telephone Number: 504-669-5481

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.

New Orleans Legal Assistance/Southeast Louisiana Legal Services

Telephone Number: 985-345-2130

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).

Non Profit Management/Volunteer Management

GNO Nonprofit Knowledge Works

Telephone Number: 504-304 8260

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.

VIA LINK, Inc.

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

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.

Volunteers of America of GNO

Telephone Number: 504-835-3005

Volunteer Coordination: Connect persons with volunteer groups and individuals to help with the recovery process.

School of Urban Missions

Telephone Number: 504-362-6364

School of Urban Missions : Distribution of donated goods. Will coordinate work with United Way and Second Harvest, when necessary.

Second Harvest

Telephone Number: 504-734-1322

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.