Provides disaster relief as well as disaster planning and preparedness education. Offers classes in health and safety, such as first aid, water safety, CPR, HIV-AIDS education, and disease transmission prevention. Offers opportunities for volunteers in all community services and programs. Also provides services to members of the armed forces and their families.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Health and Independence; Safety Net

Provides development, social adjustment, career guidance, education, counseling, drug abuse prevention, recreation and assistance to socially and economically disadvantaged youth.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Successful Children supported by Strong Families

9644 Brookline Ave.
Baton Rouge, LA 70809
Phone: (225) 926-2697 Fax: (225) 926-7552
St. Tammany: (985) 778-9692

Provides a balanced and diversified program of personal adjustment, citizenship and leadership development, cultural enrichment, health and physical education, social recreation and outdoor and environmental services. Open to youth ages 7-15 years. Call for facility locations.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Successful Children supported by Strong Families

Provides information on cancer risks, prevention, detection and treatment. Also provides medications for needy cancer patients cared for at home. Provides basic and student research grants to local cancer investigators. Co-sponsors Camp Challenge, a summer camp for children with cancer and their siblings.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Health and Independence

Multi-service agency providing health and social services to 50,000 people annually including counseling, shelters, day care and assistance to unemployed, deaf, and persons with AIDS.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Health and Independence; Safety Net;
Successful Children supported by Strong Families

Provides speakers, materials, educational programs and employee assistance, as well as information, referral and assessment services concerning alcohol and drug abuse.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Safety Net

Provides trained volunteers who advise courts concerning the best interests of children who have been placed in the juvenile justice system, usually as a result of abuse and/or neglect.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Safety Net

Provides day care services for children of low-income parents who work or are in vocational training. Also provides counseling and services for abused or neglected children.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Successful Children supported by Strong Families

Offers counseling for addictions, trauma, abuse, parenting, marriage, divorce, separation, custody evaluation and mediation, and domestic violence. Services provided for children, adults, and families. Provides general seminars for children and youth to assist with positive role models, developmental experiences, social stimulation and interaction so that they may develop emotionally and socially to their fullest potential. Provides workshops to adults to assist in dealing with stresses of everyday life. Provides these services throughout the metro area.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Health and Independence; Successful Children supported by Strong Families

Provides an informal educational program in which girls (ages 5-17) develop self-esteem, interpersonal skills and values to live by while acquiring knowledge and skills.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Successful Children supported by Strong Families

Provides vocational training and job placement for people with disabilities, disadvantages and other special employment needs. Services include vocational evaluation, work adjustment, skills training, community-based employment and job readiness training.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Health and Independence

Provides services and supports to individuals with mental retardation and developmental disabilities through adult work and training programs, supported employment, early intervention, respite, waiver services, personal care, supervised independent living, community homes and specialized daycare. Areas served: St. Tammany, Washington, Tangipahoa, St. Helena and Livingston parishes.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Health and Independence

Provides emergency services such as food, clothing, medical assistance, Men's/ Women's Harbor Light Recovery Program, emergency shelter, Family Transitional Housing Program, crisis and emergency counseling for families and individuals, community referrals, pre-school child day care, disaster services and a missing person bureau for immediate family members.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Safety Net; Successful Children supported by Strong Families

Distributes over eight million pounds of donated food to charities serving people in need. Provides three-day food boxes for families in temporary crisis. Distributes surplus prepared foods from hotels and conventions.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Safety Net

VIA LINK connects people and organizations with information and resources to enable them to help themselves and others. VIA fulfills this mission through information services, referral and crisis intervention.

Program/Allocations: Capacity Building

Provides skilled nursing, home health aide services, physical therapy, medical social services, homemaker services and some medical supplies in Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard parishes. At present, limited services in St. Tammany and Tangipahoa parishes.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Health and Independence

Reaches out to those in need throughout a 16-parish area in Southeast LA. Each year, Volunteers of America directly assists over 16,000 people - from women experiencing an unplanned pregnancy to couples eager to adopt; from those in prison to the elderly needing assistance to remain independent; from people who are hungry and homeless to children and adults with disabilities; from troubled youth to adults struggling with addictions. Also provides safe, affordable housing and neighborhood enrichment centers.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Health and Independence; Safety Net;
Successful Children supported by Strong Families; Capacity Building

The YMCA seeks to build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities by helping the people of St. Tammany achieve their God-given potential in spirit, mind and body. The Y provides child care, aquatics, youth sports and recreation, day camp, teen leadership development, adult fitness and sports, job training and adult literacy.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Health and Independence; Safety Net;
Successful Children supported by Strong Families

W. St. Tammany (Covington): (985) 893-4800
Camp Tchefuncte (Covington): (985) 892-9552
PreSchool Center (Mandeville): (985) 624-8115

Serves women and families through education, training and counseling for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. Provides job skill, development and search, pre-school, summer camps and fitness programs.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Health and Independence; Safety Net;
Successful Children supported by Strong Families

The Youth Service Bureau provides assessment, counseling, group therapy, law-related education, community service work, monetary restitution to victims, safe driving classes, information and referral, parent mentoring, counseling, substance abuse treatment, Drug Court and support and education for parents of juvenile offenders. The CASA program fosters quality advocacy efforts to ensure that all children in the community have safe and permanent homes.

Goal Areas/Programs/Allocations: Safety Net; Successful Children supported by Strong Families