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The information below is to help you become more informed of the services and organization in your community as well as those working for youth justice throughout the country. If you are looking for help to avoid having your child become court involved, some of these resources may be helpful to you.

• Orleans Parish Offices & Services
• Mental Health & Substance Abuse
• Education & After School Programs
• Other

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Orleans Parish Offices & Services

Orleans Parish Juvenile Court
421 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112
(504) 658-9500
www.opjc.com

Office of Youth Development (OYD)
www.oyd.louisiana.gov

Orleans Parish OYD
731 St. Charles Avenue 2nd Floor, New Orleans, LA 70130
(504) 568-4535

Office of Community Services (OCS)
http://www.dss.state.la.us/departments/ocs/Index.html

Orleans Parish OCS
1010 Common Street - 10th Floor
P. O. Box 61210, New Orleans, La. 70161-1210
(504) 680-9100

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Mental Health & Substance Abuse

Access to Care
1-800-794-HOPE (4673)
www.a2care.org

The goal of Access to Care is to make access to mental health and substance abuse treatment available to those affected by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma. Access to Care provides up to $2000 per person for mental health and substance abuse treatment and/or psychotropic medications.

Children’s Bureau of New Orleans
400 Lafayette Street, Suite 140, New Orleans, LA 70130
(504) 525-2366
www.childrens-bureau.com

Children’s Bureau provides a variety of services to children and their families. They are currently providing services for children who have experienced a traumatic event (i.e. Hurricane Katrina, having a loved one killed, witnessing a murder, domestic violence, etc.). Children’s Bureau provides these services for no charge.

Integrated Family Services
2714 Canal Street, Suite 314, New Orleans, LA 70119
(504) 822-4333
Intfam@bellsouth.net

Integrated Family Services provides services to children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders. While working with the child, IFS engages other family members in order to create a more balanced system for their clients. IFS works with youth at their offices as well as at the client’s home and in the community.

Family Services of Greater New Orleans
2515 Canal Street, Suite 201, New Orleans, LA 70119
(504) 822-0800
www.fsgno.org

Family Services of Greater New Orleans aims to strengthen the emotional health and foster the self-sufficiency families and individuals.

Metropolitan Human Services District (MHSD)
MHSD provides free mental health and addiction treatment services. MHSD has several locations to receive services, those for juveniles are:

NOAH Children’s Mental Health Clinic
210 State Street, New Orleans, LA 70118
(504) 897-4741

MHSD at Covenant House
611 N. Rampart Street, New Orleans, LA 70112
(504) 810-2314
1-800-74-2673 - After Hours COPE LINE

Offers substance abuse counseling for adolescents.

Volunteers of America – Shadows to Light
127 South Solomon Street, New Orleans, LA 70119
(504)485-0147
www.voa.org/Default.aspx?tabid=5531

Works to prevent suicide in youth ages 12-24 by providing free mental health services.

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Education & After School Programs

Southern Poverty Law Center
School to Prison Reform Project
4431 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70119
(504)486-8982
http://www.splcenter.org/legal/schoolhouse.jsp

The School to Prison Reform Project aims to stem the flow of children from schools to jails by ensuring that public schools provide the special education services needed by children with emotional disturbances and learning disabilities.

Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana – Schools First
1600 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70113
(504)522-5437
http://www.jjpl.org/schoolsfirst.html

Schools First works to the number of children from New Orleans entering the Juvenile Justice system through school removal and expulsion by using advocacy, policy reform and technical assistance.

Kingsley House
1613 Constance Street, New Orleans, LA
(504) 523-6221
www.kingsleyhouse.org

Kingsley House provides services to children and families with the mission of “educating children, strengthening families, and building communities.” Kingsley house provides after school tutoring for youth ages 5-12, and tutoring and recreation for teens, as well as Saturday Respite, an all day daycare service on Saturdays for children of all ages, mobile medical care, individual and family counseling and Head Start programs.

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Other

Covenant House
611 N. Rampart Street, New Orleans, LA 70112
(504) 584-1111
http://www.covenanthouseno.org/covenanthouse.htm

Covenant House offers services and programs for homeless, runaway and at-risk youth ages 16-21. These services include counseling, shelter, food, clothing, health care, child care, education, job training and advocacy.

Boys and Girls Town
700 Frenchmen Street, New Orleans, LA 70116
(504) 949-9248
http://www.boystown.org/aboutus/locations/louisiana/lprograms.asp

Boys and Girls Town provides Intervention and Assessment Centers as safe places for boys and girls in crisis including runaway, homeless and abused children. In addition it offers family services to assist families where the children are at risk of being placed outside the home. The Intervention Center for boys is located on Frenchmen Street. The girls’ location is in Gretna and can be reached by calling (504) 392-4501.

The Drop In Center
1428 N. Rampart Street, New Orleans, LA 70116
(504) 948-6701
http://www.tulane.edu/~dropin

The Drop In Center provides medical and social services to homeless and runaway youth between the ages of 14- 23.

Orleans Public Defenders (Public Defenders in Criminal Court)
2601 Tulane Avenue, Suite 700, New Orleans, LA 70119
(504) 821-8101
http://www.orleanspublicdefenders.org

New Orleans Legal Assistance Center
1010 Common Street, Annex Building Suite 1400A, New Orleans, LA
(504) 529-1000
1-877-521-6242 - Toll Free
http://www.nolac.org

Free legal aid for low-income people.

The Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana
www.jjpl.org

Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children
http://fflic.org

Youth Empowerment Project
http://www.youthempowermentproject.org

Safe Streets/Strong Communities
www.safestreetsnola.org

Job Corps
http://jobcorps.doleta.gov

LA Help
www.lawhelp.org/LA

Referrals to free and low cost legal services in Louisiana.

National Juvenile Defender Center
www.njdc.info

Southern Juvenile Defender Center
www.juveniledefender.org

JDAI – Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative
http://www.aecf.org

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This is just a list of some of the resources available. If you did not find what you were looking for, please feel free to call and ask us for more information.