Those who are Homeless
All information displayed has been gathered from each program's website.
- Transitional Housing: Homeless women with children are the fastest growing population of homeless and domestic violence is a leading cause for women becoming homeless. While Friendship House is not a safe house for women leaving abusive situations, we do encounter a great deal of homeless women with children that need a safe place to call home while they rebuild their lives from whatever circumstances caused them to become homeless. Friendship House seeks to minister to the whole person through each of our programs. We help individuals build skills to become self-sufficient and develop a relationship with Jesus. We are able to provide hot meals, clothing, showers, job readiness, life skills, case management, etc. for the ladies in the program.
Day Programs: Every week we have an opportunity to minister to people's needs through our day programs which include: snack and hygiene packs passed out weekly for homeless women. We also give emergency food bags (as available) to families in need. We offer showers and clothing to women and children. On Thursdays we offer a women's community Bible study in which we provide a meal and devotion. BFH also offers tutoring for people wanting to obtain their high school equivalency diploma, computer skills classes, job readiness training, English as a Second Language classes, literacy classes and life skills. Counseling is available for clients also.
Belle Reve is a housing facility that provides housing to homeless individuals with HIV and co-occurring mental health, substance abuse, or other co-occurring chronic illnesses.
Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans
- Originally founded in 1983, the Ciara House program provides the chronically homeless and mentally ill with safe, stable housing. The program has two sections, Ciara Independent Living and Ciara Permanent Housing.
Voyage House is a independent permanent supportive housing program for single unaccompanied homeless women 39+ years of age who experience substance abuse and/or mental health issues and/or other non-immobilizing physical disabilities. Women who qualify for the program receive subsidized apartments and a full array of case management.
City of New Orleans Health Care for the Homeless
- Health Care for the Homeless is a federally qualified health center (FQHC) providing primary healthcare services to adults in the city of New Orleans and surrounding parishes regardless of ability to pay for services. We also offer dental services to adults and children.
Covenant House
- Crisis care & intake: When kids come to our shelters, addressing their immediate needs is our priority - warm meals, showers, safe beds. But our Crisis Care involves so much more: It's also about building a foundation of safety and trust so often eroded by life on the streets.
Street & van outreach: Our Outreach teams are often the critical first step in connecting homeless youth with assistance. Armed with warm blankets, free sandwiches and information about Covenant House, they're out on the streets every day to help kids.
First Presbyterian Program of Hope
- Clothing, shoes, & toiletries distribution.
Lunch distribution on Wednesdays).
RTA tokens as available.
Vouchers for temporary housing at the Salvation Army (limit 2 per calendar month; letter from Salvation Army required).
Social work referrals.
Medical transportation to Central City Clinic.
- The I'm Going Home Initiative provides linkage and passage between a homeless person and their loved ones. Through this linkage, the person in need is welcomed home by a family member, or friend who has agreed to support and care for homeless person upon their arrival. The I'm Going Home package includes the following: documentation, transportation, and a Grace Care Bag. Participants are contacted upon arrival, after one week, one month and again at 3 months. At the 3 month follow up only 5% of people are back on the streets after being united.
- Project Rescue Homelessness Prevention Program is referral and financial assistance service to help prevent homelessness. This service is aimed at addressing issues that prevents clients from becoming self-sufficient and which, if not addressed, could eventually lead to eviction and homelessness. Services include information and referral assistance, employment assistance, and financial assistance. Financial assistance is used to pay past-due rent to prevent eviction, and utility assistance to prevent termination of services.
"Worth It" Homeless Outreach target homeless individuals in N.O. and surrounding areas. H.O.E.M. is a strong advocate for the rights and needs of the homelessness, and we are proud to be part of a larger community that is working together to address these traumas and their root causes. We partner with local nonprofits, advocacy agencies, faith-based organizations, civic groups and county to help our clients achieve the best outcomes.
Jefferson Parish Office of Community Development
- Emergency Shelter Grant Program (ESG) - provides funds for emergency shelters for the homeless and other programs to prevent homelessness.
- Emergency Shelter: each night, hundreds of men and women find warm bed and safety from the dangerous streets. We can sleep as many as 252 women and men on regular nights and as many as 400 on freeze nights.
Services for food, shelter, clothing, medical needs, education, spiritual life, and case management.
New Orleans Women & Children's Shelter
- Sheltering of up to 50 women and children at one time, including a bedroom for each family, meals, unlimited time to stay and all at no cost to the resident.
- Sleeps 96 homeless men each night and an additional 32 men on freeze night, furnishing each with toiletries, a warm shower, fresh pajamas, linens and a clean bed. Dispense vouchers to women and children to other shelters.
Rebuild Center
- Drop-in day center open 8am-2:30pm that offers various services: showers, phone room, housing assistance, legal aid, medical services, restroom facilities, haircuts, clothes distribution, mail distribution, food distribution, birth certificate and ID assistance, and more.
Run by 3 separate entities: The Harry Tompson Center, Lantern Light, and Depaul USA.
Salvation Army
- Center of Hope: provides a hot meal & overnight lodging for single adults, families, seniors and the disabled who have no other option for safe shelter.
Adult Rehabilitation Center: 60 bed men's adult rehabilitation center that provides spiritual, social and emotional assistance for men that are 21 - 62 years of age who have lost the ability to cope with their problems and provide for themselves. A minimum of 6 month commitment is required.
- Maintains people who are elderly or disabled's housing by matching them with a "homeseeker" or someone who is in need of a home. Instead of sending these individuals to a Nursing Home, the homeseeker provides the individual with light housekeeping and companionship in return for room & board.
Traveler's Aid Society of GNO: Walk-in emergency crisis intervention service may include shelter.
- Offers mental health, crisis, group and case management services for homeless and at-risk youth ages 14-23.
Day center with food & clothing closets, daily counseling & mental health services, case management, mail, laundry, internet access, and crisis management.
Volunteers of America
- Outreach/PATH (Project for Assistance in Transition for the Homeless): Outreach, referrals and supportive services are available to individuals in Orleans Parish with serious mental illness, including those with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders, who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless. PATH services include community-based outreach, referrals to resources for mental health and substance abuse treatment, service coordination and limited housing services. For more information, call 504-483-3550.
Permanent Supportive Housing: Care coordination and intensive case management services are available for homeless individuals with a significant, qualifying long-term disability. This program specializes in intervention and advocacy for people who have difficulty living successfully in communities and may become homeless or institutionalized without support. Care coordination assists with outlining goals that lead to self-sufficiency, while focusing on each individual's strengths, interests and abilities, rather than their disability. An array of services is available to individuals including money management, employment search, developing social networks and health and mental health referrals. For more information, call 504-483-3550 or 985-674-0488 on the Northshore.