United Way for the Greater New Orleans Area
Serving Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa and Washington Parishes
Partners
Partner Agencies
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American Red Cross, Southeast Louisiana Chapter |
| Telephone Number: 504-620-3105 (or 1-800-229-8191) |
| Website: www.arcno.org |
| Emergency Disaster Assistance (Non-Katrina related): The Chapter responds on average every 15 hours to families affected by disaster (most often from a residential fire) ensuring that affected families in need have shelter, food, clothing, essential medications and medical devices, and access to mental health intervention. |
| Creating Safer Communities: This program creates disaster resistant communites by bringing mitigation and preparedness efforts into people's homes and neighborhoods. The Creating Safer Communities program is an excellent way to not only help make neighborhoods safer from all hazards, but also to build a strong neighborhood connection that results from neighbors helping neighbors. |
| Community Preparedness and Resiliency Program: Program will build safe, resilient communities. The program will energize neighborhoods at a grassroots level to promote disaster prevention, safety and response in an organized effort led by neighborhood volunteers. |
| Services to Armed Forces: Provides local military members and their families experiencing a crisis situation with financial, material, emotional and referral support as well as communication with loved ones serving in the Armed Forces. |
| Training to Treat Health Emergencies in the post Katrina Great New Orleans Area: This program provides the general public with first aid/CPR training, injury/accident prevention advice and industry-standard remedies for the treatment of health and safety-related emergencies. |
American Red Cross, St. Bernard Chapter |
| Telephone Number: 504-277-8163 (or 1-800-229-8191) |
| Website: www.arcno.org |
| Emergency Disaster Assistance (Non-Katrina related): Provides disaster response, recovery and relief to individuals and families affected by disasters such as storms or severe weather, flooding, fires and other emergencies Helps citizens prepare for emergencies to decrease the stresses that such events trigger, especially among vulnerable populations. |
Arc of Greater New Orleans |
| Telephone Number: 504-837-5140 |
| Website: www.arcgno.org |
| Uptown Learning Center- Childcare: Provides childcare services to children six weeks to five years of age with and without developmental delays/disabilities. |
| Employment Services/LA Green Corps: Assists adult participants in obtaining employment. Assessment, career planning, job development, training, and ongoing support services are provided to individuals seeking employment. |
| Early Intervention: Provides 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. |
| Family Service Coordination: Family Service Coordination provides targeted case management to families and their children birth to 3 years with developmental delays and/or disabilities. |
| 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. |
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Boy Scouts of America- Southeast Louisiana Council |
| Telephone Number: 1-800-394-9410 or 504-889-0388 |
| Website: www.bsa-selacouncil.org |
| Scouting: Provides youth with character development programs, citizenship training, personal fitness programs, career development, and emergency preparedness. |
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeast Louisiana |
| Telephone Number: 504-566-0707 |
| Website: www.bgca.org |
| Power Hour: This program aims to improve the academic achievement of its members by helping them become self-directed, resourceful and confident learners through homework assistance and tutorial programming. Bright School |
| Telephone Number: 504-897-2145Language Says It All: In partnership with New Orleans Speech and Hearing Center and Rayne Early Childhood Center, they 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 children with cochlear implants. Services include intensive individualized language lessons, speech therapy and auditory training. |
Bright School |
| Telephone Number: 504-897-2145 |
| Language Says It All: In partnership with New Orleans Speech and Hearing Center and Rayne Early Childhood Center, they 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 children with cochlear implants. Services include intensive individualized language lessons, speech therapy and auditory training. |
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Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans |
| Telephone Number: 1-800-624-2039 or 504-733-5539 |
| Website: www.cagno.org |
| Cancer Patient Services: Assists 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 (Court Appointed Special Advocate) New Orleans |
| Telephone Number: 504-522-1962 |
| Website: www.casaneworleans.org |
| CASA New Orleans: Provides quality advocacy for children in the foster care system. Volunteer Advocates become the voice for the child in the juvenile court, and 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: 504-523-3755 |
| Website: www.ccano.org |
| Community Centers: Provide services to those in need through centers located throughout the metropolitan area. Services are provided through long term recovery case management augmented by direct assistance built on national best practices. |
| Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services: Provides holistic services to survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. Through crisis counseling, emergency housing, and wrap-around services (including legal), assists clients in overcoming the crises and remaining self-sufficient. In Orleans Parish the New Orleans Family Justice Center provides a one-stop collaborative combining the services of other non-profit agencies, the New Orleans Police Department, New Orleans District Attorneys, and other official response teams. |
| Emergency Shelters: Seek to provide the tools to move individuals from homelessness to a stable living environment. Multiple services, including housing and in some instances rent deposits and rental assistance, using best practice-based case management interventions, provide the basis for documented success. |
| Emergency Management: This program empowers Churches in metropolitan parishes to take an active role in disaster assessment and response, thereby helping meet the basic needs of affected community members, especially the poor and vulnerable, regardless of religious affiliation. |
| Hispanic Apostolate Community Services: In collaboration with other programs and services, provides employment counseling, case management, ESL, after school tutoring, assistance / referrals with federal / state taxes, emergency needs, immigration assistance, education of primary medical care availability, labor rights, and equality. |
| Operation Helping Hands: Assembles and manages teams of volunteers from across the country to assist elderly and disabled citizens of New Orleans with the rebuilding and repair of hurricane damaged homes. |
| Educational Services- Afterschool Assembly: Targeting low-income kindergarten through 8th grade students of the Greater New Orleans area, students will receive necessary tutoring, remediation, and enrichment to improve their standardized test taking skills and scores. |
| Head Start Centers: Education, food, and nutritional services are provided to children ages 0 – 5 years old integrating the Head Start model. |
| Adult Day Health Care Centers: 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. |
| Counseling Solutions: Provides comprehensive long-term (beyond two months) individual, family and group counseling including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). |
| Deaf Action Center: Provides limited equipment distribution, increased sign language interpreting for case management, disaster relief issues, and counseling. |
Children’s Bureau of New Orleans |
| Telephone Number: 504-525-2366 |
| Website: www.childrens-bureau.com |
| Child and Family Counseling Program: 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 (CCSTB) |
| Telephone Number: 504-281-2512 |
| Website: www.ccstb.org |
| Mustard Seed Distribution: This program provides local residents with services that enable them to meet their basic food needs. The program also provides referrals to other agencies in order to increase clients’ knowledge of & access to available community resources.
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Christian Concern of Slidell, Inc |
| Telephone Number: 985-646-0357 |
| Website: www.slidellccc.org |
| Basic Needs Programs: The program provides the basic necessities of life for the destitute, such as food, clothing, utility bill assistance, rental assistance and temporary housing. It also includes basic lifestyle counseling services to enable clients to move toward self-reliance. |
| Training Opportunities for Former Offenders (TORO): Services to former offenders and their families include work adjustment training, job development and placement (with follow-up), employment facilitation to enter the workforce, case management, employment counseling, and supportive services to reduce recidivism and improve community safety. |
Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (CADA) |
| Telephone Number: 504-362-4272 |
| Website: www.cadagno.org |
| Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention: Provides substance abuse and alcohol prevention services in schools and the community; crisis counseling, supportive counseling in neighborhoods as they re-open and re-build. |
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Dryades YMCA |
| Telephone Number: 504-522-8811 |
| Early Childhood Development: Provides early childhood education and childcare for youngsters six months to five years. |
| Youth Development: Provides youth development enrichment services- academic enrichment, career preparation, employment, camping, and after-school activities to returning students. |
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Early Childhood and Family Learning Foundation |
| Website: www.childrenarewaiting.org |
100% In... 100% Out Childcare Initiative: This program will provide enhanced services and comprehensive curriculum to ensure that all children in the Mahalia Jackson Center Early Childhood Education Program enter school ready to learn. |
East St. Tammany Rainbow |
| Telephone Number: 985-646-0718 |
| Website: www.rainbowchildcare.com |
| Child Care Center: Provides early childhood education and childcare in St. Tammany to low income working residents and hurricane evacuees with pre-school children. |
Epilepsy Foundation of Louisiana |
| Telephone Number: 504-486-6326 |
| Website: www.epilepsylouisiana.org |
| Positive Approaches to Living with Epilepsy: Provides information and referral, patient assistance, and 24 hour hotline to individuals living with epilepsy/seizure disorder. |
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Family Service of Greater New Orleans |
| Telephone Number: 504-822-0800 |
| Website: www.fsgno.org |
| Domestic Violence: A psycho-educational intervention program, designed to provide perpetrators of violence with education, coping skills, and support to help prevent recidivism of domestic violence. The clients participate in small groups aimed at increasing the participants’ positive behaviors and preventing the domestic violence from reoccurring. |
| Counseling: Provides general counseling services for individuals, children and families in our community as it recovers from the worst natural disaster in our nation’s history. |
Foundation for the LSU Health Sciences Center |
| Telephone Number: 1-888-599-1073 |
| Website: http://www.lsuhscfoundation.org |
| Louisiana Comprehensive Cancer Control Program: Provides a Survivor Clinic for stable cancer clients from the area to receive follow-up services locally and reduce their travel burdens. Also includes ongoing, regular breast screening for under and uninsured cancer clients. |
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Habitat for Humanity St. Tammany East |
| Telephone Number: 985-639-0656 |
| Website: www.esthfh.org |
| East St. Tammany Habitat for Humanity: East St. Tammany Habitat for Humanity builds and sells simple, decent, affordable homes to low-income qualifying Partner Families in the communities of Slidell, Pearl River, and Lacombe. |
Habitat for Humanity St. Tammany West |
| Telephone Number: 985-893-3172 |
| Website: www.habitatstw.org |
| Lend a Helping Hammer, Build a Home: Offers the opportunity of homeownership to families earning 30%-60% of the area median income with a no-interest, no-profit mortgage, and a mortgage payment that is significantly less than what most Habitat families have been paying in rent. |
Healing Hearts for Community Development |
| Telephone Number: 504-831-9673 |
| Website: www.celebrationchurch.org |
| Trauma Counseling Program: Provides faith-based, community-based outpatient mental health services for individuals and families in the New Orleans area struggling with traumatic issues as a result of Hurricane Katrina. |
Hume Child Development Center |
| Telephone Number: 504-822-7883 |
| Website: www.humechild.org |
| Child Care: Hume provides a healthy, safe and affordable learning environment for toddlers and preschoolers. |
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Jewish Community Center |
| Telephone Number: 504-897-0143 |
| Website: www.nojcc.com |
| Day Care: 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. |
Jewish Family Service |
| Telephone Number: 504-831-8475 |
| Website: www.jfsneworleans.org |
| 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. |
| Older Adult 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. |
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Katrina Reconstruction Resource Center |
| Telephone Number: 504-309-5120 |
| Website: www.lakewoodbeacon.org |
| Beacon of Hope Resource Centers: The Resource Centers are a grassroots approach to recovery providing support through localized neighborhood centers (located in Lakeview, Gentilly, and the Lower 9th Ward) to help residents rebuild and return to clean viable communities. |
Kingsley House |
| Telephone Number: 504-523-6221 |
| Website: www.kingsleyhouse.org |
| After School and Teen Program: A competency based program, the purpose of which is to support youth in their physical, social, and emotional development by building their cognitive, creative, and mental competencies, provides a safe, nurturing, creative, and stimulating environment where youth develop the skills and knowledge to make healthy choices, achieve academic success, and a positive sense of self and kinship to their community. |
| Early Head Start & Head Start Programs: This program is a comprehensive, high quality program that promotes the physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and language development of infants and toddlers through developmentally appropriate practice, as well as the provision of pre/postnatal education and support services to pregnant women. |
| Educare of New Orleans: The program provides proven comprehensive, evidence-based curriculum and supports to children across all developmental domains (social emotional, language, cognitive, physical) and builds strong partnerships with parents, emphasizing their role in promoting learning and becoming strong advocates for their children's long-term academic success. |
| Adult Services: Provides Adult Day Health Care and Senior Center Services to elderly and disabled adults. Services provided are transportation, meals, social, recreational, and educational activities, case management and health monitoring to those who attend, in addition to caregiver support groups and activities. |
| Health Care for All: This program increases awareness of and access to Medicaid and Food Stamp enrollment as well as physical and mental health education. Health Care For All provides community outreach and education in Orleans Parish and conducts depression screenings, enrolls individuals in Medicaid, enrolls individuals in Food Stamps, conducts cycles (8 sessions per cycle) of community support groups, and conducts physical health education sessions. |
Resettlement and Recovery Counseling and Outreach Program: Originating in October 2005, this program provides home and outpatient mental health service, as well as, outreach activities designed to respond to the mental health, medical and nutritional needs of individuals and families. |
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Legal Aid Bureau |
| Telephone Number: 504-324-6706 |
| Legal Aid Bureau: Provides, by appointment only, legal consultation and services to eligible individuals with Road Home grant issues and landlord / tenant disputes. |
Louisiana Children’s Museum |
| Telephone Number: 504-523-1357 |
| Website: www.lcm.org |
| Play Power, St. Bernard: Provides safe and fun space in St. Bernard for children to play and engage in while they remediate the effects of disasters. |
Louisiana Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped |
| Telephone Number: 504-899-6440 |
| Website: www.nfdh.org |
| Donated Dental Services: Working with volunteer dentists in the community to provide dental care for the disabled and elderly residents. |
Lower 9th Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association (NENA) |
| Telephone Number: 504-73-6483 |
| Website: www.9thwardnena.org |
| Design Studio: Provides architectural and construction administration services to assist lower 9th Ward residents in rebuilding their homes and their lives. |
lowernine.org |
| Telephone Number: 504-278-1240 |
| Website: www.lowernine.org |
| Lower Ninth Ward Home Rebuild: In partnership with local contractors, lowernine.org trains volunteers and residents in basic to advanced carpentry, and house repair and rebuilding at a fraction of the open market rate. |
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Mary Queen Vietnam (MQVN) Community Development Corp., Inc |
| Telephone Number: 504-255-9170 |
| Website: www.mqvncdc.org |
| Building Sustainable Communities: Offers a linguistically-and-culturally competent case management program, a holistic service program inclusive of community networking, small business technical assistance and affordable housing development through the interpretation of government programs. |
Metropolitan Center for Women and Children, Inc. |
| Telephone Number: 504-837-5400 |
| Website: www.metrobatteredwomen.com |
| Metropolitan Center for Women & Children: Provides wrap-around services for both child and adult victims of domestic violence and/or sexual assault. These services include emergency and transitional shelter, 24 hour crisis line, food, clothing, legal assistance, and individual and group counseling. |
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Neighborhood Housing Services |
| Telephone Number: 504-899-5900 |
| Website: www.nhsnola.org |
| HomeOwnership Counseling: Provides comprehensive affordable home-ownership services including financial fitness preparation, home-ownership counseling, homebuyer education, financing assistance and construction management services to first-time homebuyers and existing homeowners in the New Orleans metropolitan area. |
New Orleans Outreach |
| Telephone Number: 504-486-2887 |
| Website: www.nooutreach.org |
| Academic and Cultural Enrichment: This program provides direct support to New Orleans schools through its creation of top-quality academic support and cultural enrichment programming that augments classroom instruction and is delivered by volunteers, other nonprofits, and professional instructors. |
New Orleans Speech & Hearing |
| Telephone Number: 504-897-2606 extension 101 |
| Website: www.noshc.org |
| Outpatient Rehabilitation – Adults: Provides assessments of hearing loss and hearing aid dispensing and repair. |
| Outpatient Rehabilitation – Children: Provides assessment and treatment of communications disorders for children birth to 17 years. |
NO/AIDS Task Force |
| Telephone Number: 504-821-2601 |
| Website: www.noaidstaskforce.org |
| Medication Program: Provides medication to individuals living with HIV/AIDS in the Greater New Orleans Area. |
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Odyssey House Louisiana, Inc |
| Telephone Number: 504-821-9211 |
| Website: www.ohlinc.org |
| Residential Substance Abuse: OHL provides comprehensive residential drug and alcohol abuse treatment and therapy. |
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Phoenix of New Orleans, Inc, dba PNOLA |
| Telephone Number: 504-342-4399 |
| Website: www.pnola.org |
| Housing Recovery Program: Within the Tulane/Gravier and Mid-City area the program will provide construction management, volunteer skilled labor and funding advocacy for eligible clients in order to get families into safe, secure, sanitary, and functional housing. |
Preservation Alliance of New Orleans dba. Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans (PRCNO) |
| Telephone Number: 504-581-7032 |
| Website: www.prcno.org |
| Rebuilding Together New Orleans: Operating since 1988, Rebuilding Together New Orleans is an affiliate of the national Rebuilding Together organization and is able to draw resources (including volunteers) to rebuild houses for low income elderly and disabled homeowners in the following five targeted neighborhoods in Orleans Parish: Hollygrove, Holy Cross, Broadmoor, Esplanade Ridge/Treme, and Faubourg St. Roch. |
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Raintree Children and Families |
| Telephone Number: 504-899-9045 |
| Website: www.raintreeservices.org |
| After School Services Program: Provides 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: Assists families with infants and toddlers with special needs in obtaining specialized services needed to enable development to their fullest potentials. |
Rosary Child Development Center |
| Telephone Number: 504-254-1528 |
Rosary Child Development: Provides quality child care for the Village de L'Est Neighborhood |
Royal Castle Child Development Center |
| Telephone Number: 504-488-1045 |
| Child Development Center: Provides early childhood education and childcare for children with working parents. |
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Safe Harbor, Inc. |
| Telephone Number: 985-781-4856 |
| Website: www.safeharbornorthshore.com |
| Domestic Violence Program and Shelter: Provides a temporary shelter and a program in St. Tammany Parish, exclusively for survivors who are rendered homeless due to domestic abuse. Program incorporates safety planning, empowerment advocacy, and referrals to community-based programs to design a safe workable solution to meet needs. |
Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana |
| Telephone Number: 504-734-1322 |
| Website: www.no-hunger.org |
| Food collection and Distribution: This program targets “food-insecure” populations in 23 parishes, including Greater New Orleans, feeding 248,700 individuals annually. Donated food, supplemented by food purchases to ensure nutritional balance, is distributed through over 240 member agencies. |
Southeast Louisiana Legal Services |
| Telephone Number: 985-345-2130 |
| Website: www.slls.org |
| Housing: Work focuses on helping home owners access government help to repair their homes and resolve disputes with mortgage companies and contractors. The work focuses on helping renters access subsidized housing and resolve disputes with landlords. SLLS advocates with disaster-related housing programs. |
St. Bernard Battered Women’s Program, Inc. |
| Telephone Number: 504-277-3177 |
| Website: www.DeanoBWP.org |
| Domestic Violence Program: Emergency shelter for women and children whose lives have been impacted by domestic violence. Offer ancillary services to assist victims with achieving self identified goals. Non-residential services include legal advocacy, court accompaniment, safety planning, individual and group counseling, advocacy, and referrals. |
St. Bernard Project |
| Telephone Number: 504-277-6831 |
| Website: www.stbernardproject.org |
| Rebuilding Program: Rebuilds gutted homes in St. Bernard Parish in 8-12 weeks with approximately $12,000 in building supplies by using volunteer labor and skilled supervisors. |
| Center for Wellness and Mental Health: In partnership with the Psychiatry Department of LSU's Health Sciences Center, SBP’s Center for Wellness and Mental Health (CWMH) addresses storm-related mental health problems for residents of St. Bernard and Orleans parishes. |
STARC |
| Telephone Number: 985-674-0197 |
| Website: www.starcla.org |
| Noah’s ARC Child Day Care Center: Provides early intervention and childcare services to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers with and without special needs in St. Tammany and other Florida parishes. |
| Supported Employment: This program enables adults with disabilities to obtain meaningful employment in a job setting with the assistance of skilled staff. Through referrals from various sources throughout our community, individuals enter into a process of assessments and training to help determine an appropriate vocational placement. |
| STARC Early Intervention: Provides Speech and Occupational Therapy to children ages birth to 3 years in their natural environment. STARC therapists also work with the children and teachers within our child care facility providing resources, training, and materials to use in the classrooms. |
| Solid Rock Elderly Services: Provides opportunities for seniors to interact socially with others and receive assistance with daily living in a dignified manner; enables participation in activities designed to assist seniors with achieving their maximum level of independence thus preventing or delaying onset of additional mental or physical problems and/or institutionalization. |
| Jacob’s Ladder Adult Day Care: Provides structured activities in a stimulating environment to individuals with severe physical and/or mental disabilities. |
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Travelers Aid Society of Greater New Orleans |
| Telephone Number: 504-584-1107 |
| Website: www.travelersaid.org |
| Crisis Intervention Counseling: Provides crisis and individual counseling / case management services and emergency assistance to homeless families and individuals. Services also include financial assistance for rent/mortgage, utilities, household items, identification, internet access, and long distance transportation. |
| Self-Help Employment Program (SHEP): Provides job search / readiness skills training to the homeless along with a large array of ancillary support services that remove barriers to employment and support job retention. |
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United Negro College Fund |
| Telephone Number: 504-581-3794 |
| Website: www.uncf.org |
| Emergency Assistance Fund: Provides financial assistance to students at Xavier and Dillard Universities during periods of unexplained, unavoidable family crises and emergencies. |
Urban League of Greater New Orleans, Inc. |
| Telephone Number: 504-620-2332 |
| Website: www.urbanleagueneworleans.org |
| Early Head Start: This program provides early identification and treatment of developmental delays, direct support to parents and a safe harbor for children. |
| Urban League College Track: This program provides rigorous academic preparation, opportunities for leadership development and enrichment, and guidance through the college application and selection processes as apart of our three core services areas: Academic Affairs, Student Life, and College Affairs. |
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VIA LINK, Inc. |
| Telephone Number: 2-1-1 (or 504-269-2673 or 800-749-2673) |
| Website: www.vialink.org |
| 2-1-1 Info & Referral; Crisis Intervention / Suicide Prevention: The 2-1-1 call center functions for information and referral, crisis and suicide intervention, and a single point of entry for disaster related case management (for those participating agencies), and provides a comprehensive community resource database that also serves as a multipurpose resource database for mapping and specialized directory projects. |
Visiting Nurses Association |
| Telephone Number: 504-888-3892 |
| Website: www.vnaa.org |
| Nursing / Home Health Aid: Provides 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: immunizations, wound treatment, diabetic care, venipuncture, physical assessment, catheter care, health screen, vital sign monitoring, disease process and medication teaching. |
Volunteers of America of Greater New Orleans, Inc. |
| Telephone Number: 504-482-2130 |
| Website: www.voagno.org |
| Greater New Orleans Disaster Recovery Partnership Volunteer Connection: Focus is on effectively recruiting, placing, using, coordinating, and managing volunteers for maximum efficiency in providing neighborhood and recovery and rebuilding support in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, while incorporating volunteer efforts into regional preparedness. |
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Youth Service Bureau |
| Telephone Number: 985-893-2570 |
| Website: www.ysbworks.org |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA): Recruits, trains, and supervises community volunteers to be the eyes and ears of the Court to monitor the safety and well-being of children in foster care and help judges find safe, permanent homes for abused and neglected children in State's custody. |
Youth Service Bureau of St. Tammany |
| Telephone Number: 985- 893-2570 |
| Website: www.YSBworks.com |
| Families in Need of Services(FINS): This program provides intervention/educational programs and support for at-risk youth who have demonstrated ungovernable behaviors at home and/or in school, in an attempt to keep the 5-17 year olds in school and engaged in the education process. Families are provided with parenting and family communication classes. |
| Truancy Assessment and Services Center (TASC): A prevention program providing resources and support for truant children in Kindergarten through 5th grade and their families in order to reduce school absences and increase academic success. |
| 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. |
| Options: Provides 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. |
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