As part of their Holiday Program, last month we provided 60 gift cards to families who are experiencing ongoing housing and financial difficulties due to Hurricane Ida. For two weeks after the storm, we were welcomed by the ENCORE community: families came for supplies and healing, checked on each other, and brought food for volunteers, practicing the kind of reciprocal care we are trying to build. We first partnered with encoreacademynola to host our Hurricane Ida supply distribution in September. HOLIDAY RECAP: We supported two Mutual Aid Holiday Programs last month. Huge shoutout to Coleen Murphy for coordinating again this year! It has been produced as a public service by volunteer community members and is available free of charge to all people. This edition has been produced entirely by volunteers, in partnership with our team at Imagine Water Works. This guide is a 2023 update based on information compiled by staff and volunteers for the REACH NOLA/Common Ground Health Clinic Community Resource Guide from 2006-14, and working directly from the 2022 edition, which sourced information compiled by volunteers at the Center for Ethical Living & Social Justice Renewal, as well as the Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming NOLA Resource Guide produced by Dr. In the interest of maintaining a portable size for this guide, many listings direct folks to call for more information, or refer to an organization’s website. Available transgender and non-binary services have been incorporated throughout and can also be found in a dedicated section of this guide. Organizations were specifically and intentionally asked about funding options for uninsured patients, the availability of Spanish translation services, and their ability to provide services for transgender and non-binary patients. Listed resources were contacted by phone and asked to verify the information listed. Most listings are for services located in Orleans & Jefferson parishes, although select state and nationwide services have also been included. This guide has been compiled with the intention of increasing public access to services that are free or low-cost in the New Orleans area. Resources! Our 2023 update of the “New Orleans Community Resource Guide for Resistance and Renewal” is available for download now via our website at bit.ly/nolacrg. Coffee for housing Re/Pro so hospitably, to Antigravity and Imagine Water Works for digital distribution, and to many New Orleanians committed to community care and harm reduction, including but not limited to: Nora Fuller, Elizabeth Gelvin, Ida Aronson, Ruth Idakula, Katelyn Boyles, Zoe Krulak-Palmer, Alix Jason, Juliana Sanrame, Kayla Riley, Izzy Hermantin Kim Burritt, Mike Marina, Sarah Watson, April Martin, Erika Zucker, Brooke Boudreaux, Anne van Schooneveld, Vinay Krupadev, Walesa Kanarek, Leyla Aleman, Martha Sarfaty, and even more lovely folks connected to the New Orleans Abortion Fund and New Orleans DSA, and probably you.įinally, love and appreciation to Harriet Burbeck for the cover art. Thanks are due to the Endowment Fund of Community Church Unitarian Universalist for funding the printing of the first 1,000 copies, to the Re/Pro Community Photocopier project for making the photocopying experience affordable and beautiful, to the crew at St. Many people did the work of making this edition of the resource guide possible!
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