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   Free and Low-Cost Health Care (Separate Website)
See this site for information about finding free or low-cost health care in New Orleans.
By: Tulane Physicians for Social Responsibility
  
   
   Helpful Information for Families (Separate Website)
Check out this site for helpful information about family issues, including communicating with teens, dealing with post-hurricane stress, and how to help prepare your child for an evacuation.
By: LSU Ag Center
  
   
   Homeless Help - Providence House (Separate Website)
Click the link to find out more about Shreveport's Providence House, a "residential development center for homeless families with children, providing comprehensive support services for improving the family structure and moving the family into independent living to break the homeless cycle."
By: Providence House
  
   
   HUD -- National Housing Locator (Separate Website)
Find the HUD office or public housing authority (PHA) nearest you. Just see the disaster "Resource Locator" then pick a state and parish or county.
By: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
  
   
   HUD-Approved Housing Counseling Agencies (Separate Website)
List of housing counseling agencies in Louisiana, from HUD's website.
By: U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
  
   
   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
  
   
   Jefferson Parish Public Library Delivery Service (Separate Website)
The Jefferson Parish Public Library's east bank outreach program delivers materials to retirement homes, assisted living facilities and to homebound disbled or elderly people living alone. The west bank program focuses on children's day care providers.
By: Jefferson Parish Public Library
  
   
   LA Swift Bus Between Baton Rouge to New Orleans (Separate Website)
See this information about the LA Swift Bus service between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
By: Louisiana Dept. of Transportation and Development
  
   
   Lafayette Public Library Outreach Services (Separate Website)
The Lafayette Public Library's outreach program brings library services to elderly, disabled, institutionalized and homebound people. Click on the link to learn more.
By: Lafayette Public Library
  
   
   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
  
   
   Library Books by Mail, Free! Jefferson Parish (Separate Website)
Information from the library's site " If you are a resident of Jefferson Parish and are unable to leave home because of a temporary or permanent disability, the Jefferson Parish Library BOOKS BY MAIL service will send you books and other library materials free of charge."
By: Jefferson Parish Public Library
  
   
   Louisiana Aging and Disability Resource Center (Separate Website)
Click on the link for information and resources.
  
   
   Louisiana Alzheimer's Association (Separate Website)
Find information and help near you. This is the site for the Louisiana Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. There is another LawHelp link to the national site.
By: Alzheimer's Association - Louisiana Chapter
  
   
   Louisiana Charitable Dental Clinics (Separate Website)
For the elderly and disabled. From the website: Anyone in the state that is elderly or handicapped can call Donated Dental Services and apply to participate: (800) 946-6016. There is also a DDS program specifically for Acadiana called 232-HELP/211. For more information, click the link above or call (337) 232-4357.
By: Louisiana Dental Association
  
   
   Louisiana Spirit Resource List This link opens a PDF file in a new window.  If you do not have an accessible Acrobat Reader, a link is provided at the bottom of this page. (Separate Website)
Here is information about all kinds of services, from counseling, clothing and food distribution, domestic violence issues, help for the elderly, and more, with information for some of the state's rural areas.
By: LA Spirit
  
   
   Louisiana Transit Resource Guide (Separate Website)
Here is a parish by parish guide to transportation services in Louisiana.
By: Lousiana DOTD
  
   
   Making Disaster Kits for Home, Workl & Car (Separate Website)
Here is information from FEMA about what disaster supplies you may need at home, at work, if you are working, and for your car, if you have a car.
By: FEMA
  
   
   Meals on Wheels/Senior Meals -- Louisiana (Separate Website)
Find out the center nearest you with a "Meals on Wheels" or senior meals program.
By: MealCall.org
  
   
   National Shared Housing Resource Center (Separate Website)
See the site of this organization, which focuses on helping elderly and disabled people find shared housing or a housing companion to help them live independently in their own homes.
By: Shared Housing of New Orleans
  
   
   New Orleans Neighborhoods Partnership Network (Separate Website)
Looking for your local neighborhood association or other neighborhood information? This site may help.
By: NPN
  
   
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This web site has been prepared for general information purposes only. The information on this web site is not legal advice. Legal advice depends on the specific facts of each situation. Some information in this web site may not be correct for where you are.  The information in this web site is not guaranteed to be up-to-date.  The information in this web site cannot replace the advice of competent legal counsel licensed in your state.

 

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