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Adoption
AdoptUsKids
(Separate Website)
Information and resources about adoption and foster parenting, from The Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
By: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services and others
Agenda for Children
(Separate Website)
Agenda for Children works to make government work better for Louisiana?s children, keeping track of laws, policies, and decisions that affect children. This involves child protection, welfare, child care, health insurance and Medicaid, child support, education, juvenile justice, housing, and other public services. Agenda for Children also offers training, resource and referral services, information and technical assistance to individuals, families, organizations, service providers and the media.
By: Agenda for Children
Cafe Reconcile New Orleans
(Separate Website)
Find out more about Cafe Reconcile, which helps at-risk young people learn develop life and work skills while learning about the food service industry. "Our innovative life skills and job training program assists young people (ages 16?22) from severely at-risk communities who desire to make a positive change in their lives."
Cenla Guide to Human Services
(Separate Website)
Searchable online database of social services agencies in central Louisiana.
By: United Way of Central Louisiana
Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
(Separate Website)
National not-for-profit group devoted to improving adoption policy and practice.
Financial Help for Adoptions
(Separate Website)
National nonprofit organization dedicated to providing financial support, information, and services for adoptive and prospective adoptive families.
By: National Adoption Foundation
Financial Help for Adoptions & Foster Care
(Separate Website)
Financial assistance available in Louisiana.
By: North American Council on Adoptable Children
Grants for Adoptions
(Separate Website)
Private foundation helps potential adoptive parents with cash grants to subsidize a part of adoption expenses.
By: Gift of Adoption Fund
Helping Your Foster Child Transition to Your Adopted Child
(Separate Website)
A factsheet for families.
By: Administration of Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Information by text for pregnant women
(Separate Website)
Pregnant women can get weekly text messages with helpful information geared to each stage of the prenancy. The service is an outreach project of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition.
By: text4baby.org
Lawyer Referral and Information
(Separate Website)
Here is a link to the Lawyer Referral and Information page from the site of the Louisiana State Bar Association.
Here are the individual numbers listed on that site:
Baton Rouge:
(225)344-9926
Lafayette
(337)237-4700
Lake Charles:
(337)436-3308
New Orleans
(504)561-8828
Shreveport:
(318)222-0720
By: Louisiana State Bar Association
Liberty's Kitchen
(Separate Website)
Find out more about Liberty's Kitchen. "The Liberty?s Kitchen Youth Development Program provides at-risk youth, ages 16-20, with the opportunity to build a better future by increasing their ability to change their situation and engage in a supportive community where they learn life, social and employability skills in a culinary setting."
By: Liberty's Kitchen
Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services
(Separate Website)
Link to the website of the state agency that runs these programs: food stamps, welfare, kinship care subsidies, foster care, child support, disability rehabilitation, and more.
By: Louisiana Department of Social Services (now Department of Children and Family Services)
Low Interest Loans for Adoptions
(Separate Website)
Nonprofit charitable foundation that gives financial help for international adoption to qualified prospective parents who might otherwise not be able to adopt.
By: A Child Waits Foundation
National Center for Children in Poverty
(Separate Website)
National Child Care Information Center
(Separate Website)
The National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC), a project of the Child Care Bureau, is a national resource that links information and people to complement, enhance, and promote the child care delivery system, working to ensure that all children and families have access to high-quality comprehensive services.
By: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
Save Our Schools -- New Orleans Information
(Separate Website)
The Public school organizational chart shows which organizations/networks run which schools in New Orleans.
By: Save Our Schools
Social Services -- Claiborne Parish
(Separate Website)
Directory of social services available in Claiborne Parish
AdoptUsKids
(Separate Website)
Information and resources about adoption and foster parenting, from The Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
By: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services and others
Agenda for Children
(Separate Website)
Agenda for Children works to make government work better for Louisiana?s children, keeping track of laws, policies, and decisions that affect children. This involves child protection, welfare, child care, health insurance and Medicaid, child support, education, juvenile justice, housing, and other public services. Agenda for Children also offers training, resource and referral services, information and technical assistance to individuals, families, organizations, service providers and the media.
By: Agenda for Children
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