The American Red Cross Hurricane Recovery Program has awarded the Louisiana Association of United Ways, in partnership with the LSU Health Sciences Center, Department of Psychiatry, a grant totaling $744,883. The purpose of the grant is to increase mental health clinical interventions and services in the Southern Louisiana and south Mississippi communities hardest hit by the 2005 hurricanes. LAUW and the LSU HSC, Department of Psychiatry has partnered on this Family Resiliency Project (FRP), which is formed to address a growing public health crisis: persistent mental health distress in children and youth as a result of experiences related to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The FRP will provide critical services for Louisiana‘s most vulnerable citizens, strengthen a statewide network of 2-1-1 Crisis Management and Information Referral Services and replicate best practices in health and human services delivery. Trainings will be held in Lake Charles, Lafayette, Baton Rouge, Slidell and New Orleans for the Louisiana 2-1-1 Providers.
AmeriCorps* VISTA has approved LAUW’s Concept Paper and Application.
AmeriCorps*VISA (Volunteers in Service to America) provides full-time members to nonprofit, faith-based and other community organizations, and public agencies to create and expand programs that bring low-income individuals and communities out of poverty.
Any Louisiana United Way interested in applying for a VISTA member, please click here. The application deadline is July 30.
COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS The Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations (LANO) and LAUW developed the Community Solutions 2007 document to be a companion to the Blueprint Louisiana and CABL Quantum Change Agenda, with a slightly different framework to focus on policy change for the future. LANO and LAUW believe that they must directly address the yet to be discussed challenge to Louisiana's progress - poverty. Community Solutions 2007 addresses some of the same issues as other election-year publications such as ethics and accountability, health-care, workforce development and education. To obtain a copy of the document, please call LAUW at 504.827.6866 or click here for the pdf version.
The Louisiana Association of United Ways (LAUW) represents 13 United Way Agencies throughout Louisiana and each committed to enhancing the human service delivery systems necessary to ensure the economic health of our state.
The mission of LAUW is to increase the organized capacity of Louisiana United Way organizations. The purpose of LAUW is to foster and enable the provision of efficient and effective community services for the citizens of the service area.
In 2006, the LAUW hired professional staff, including a president, office manager, statewide long term recovery coordinator and a 2-1-1 statewide coordinator to increase Louisiana’s capacity to deliver these vitally needed services and to demonstrate our ability to speak with one voice. | 
