Family Resources
- Agenda for Children
http://www.agendaforchildren.org/home.htm
A voice for Louisiana's Children and Families
- American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
http://www.aacap.org/publications/factsfam/index.htm
American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry Facts for Families. The AACAP developed Facts for Families to provide concise and up-to-date information on issues that affect children, teenagers, and their families. The AACAP provides this important information as a public service and the Facts for Families may be duplicated and distributed free of charge as long as the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is properly credited and no profit is gained from their use.
- Boy Scouts of America
http://www.scouting.org/
The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America supports more than 300 local councils that provide quality youth programs, including Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, and Venturing.
- CASA of Acadiana, Inc.
http://www.casaofacadiana.org/
CASA stands for Court Appointed Special Advocate. Each year thousands of children in Louisiana enter into complex social welfare and juvenile court proceedings through no fault of their own. They are innocent victims of abuse, neglect or abandonment. They belong to no one as they sit silently waiting for the courts to decide their future. Many of these children become victims a second time, lost in an overburdened child welfare system that cannot pay close attention to each child whose life is in its hands. Sometimes a child can remain adrift in foster care for months, even years. Serving children and families in 11 Parishes which include St. Mary and Lafourche.
(337) 593-2272
2435 W. Congress St., Lafayette
- CASA of Terrebonne, Inc.
http://www.louisianacasa.org/locate.html
CASA stands for Court Appointed Special Advocate.
Each year thousands of children in Louisiana enter into complex social welfare and juvenile court proceedings through no fault of their own. They are innocent victims of abuse, neglect or abandonment. They belong to no one as they sit silently waiting for the courts to decide their future. Many of these children become victims a second time, lost in an overburdened child welfare system that cannot pay close attention to each child whose life is in its hands. Sometimes a child can remain adrift in foster care for months, even years. Serving children and families in the 32nd judicial district, parish of Terrebonne.
985-876-0250
P. O. Box 824 Houma, LA 70361
- Child Care Resources
http://www.agendaforchildren.org/ccr.htm
Child Care Resources provides parents with information about their child care options, including child care centers, family child care homes, summer camps, nursery schools, and before/after school programs. CCR also counsels parents about evaluating and locating quality child care. It conducts public education campaigns about the value of good child care and offers technical assistance to child care providers.
985 446-8330
1047 Jackson St., Thibodaux
- Child Passenger Safety
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/portal/site/nhtsa/menuitem.9f8c7d6 ...
Through education, training, enforcement, outreach and legislation, NHTSA seeks to ensure that all children ages 0-16 are properly restrained in the correct restraint system for their age and size every time they travel in a motor vehicle.
- Children's Coalition for the Bayou Region
http://www.bayoukids.org
Creating a community that nurtures the body, mind & spirit of children.
985-872-1880
8024 Park Avenue, Houma
- Covering Kids & Families - Health Access Initiative for the Uninsured
http://coveringkidsandfamilies.org/
Covering Kids & Families works to reduce the number of uninsured children and adults who are eligible for public health care coverage programs but not enrolled.
- Deep South Community Services, Inc.
The Family Day Care Home Program is funded by the US Dept. of Agriculture and administered by the LA Dept. of Education Division of Nutrition Assistance.
P O Box 3616, Paradis
- Dept of Health & Human Svcs Administration for Children & Families
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/index.html
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is a federal agency funding state, territory, local, and tribal organizations to provide family assistance (welfare), child support, child care, Head Start, child welfare, and other programs relating to children and families.
- Early Steps
http://www.oph.dhh.state.la.us/childrensspecial/earlyinterve ...
Free early intervention services for infants and toddlers (infant to three years) and their families.
- Families Helping Families
http://www.fhfla.org/blfhf/
A non-profit agency serving families of children with disabilities. Our mission is to enable and empower individuals and families with special needs through a coordinated network of resources, support, & information exchange.
- Family and Youth Development
http://www.doe.state.la.us/lde/family/531.html
Family and Youth Development provides initiatives affording families and youths opportunities to fully maximize educational/vocational resources provided by the Louisiana State Department of Education. These programs particularly target those families/youths who, because of extenuating circumstances, might not have been able to readily access educational/opportunities in a traditional manner and time frame.
- Girl Scouts of America
http://www.girlscoutssela.org/
The truth is girls join Girl Scouting for the fun, the adventure, the friends. But being a part of Girl Scouts is about more than just having fun. Girl Scouting inspires girls to the highest ideals, assisting in the development of strong values, a social conscience, and conviction about their own potential and self-worth.
- Gulf Coast Teaching Family Services, Houma
http://www.donategulfcoast.org/HoPrograms.html
Gulf Coast Teaching Family Services, Inc. is a private non-profit agency founded in Louisiana in 1983. The organization was established to provide comprehensive human service programs and assistance to special needs citizens, including those labeled mentally and developmentally disabled, delinquent, emotionally disturbed, behaviorally disordered, and/or mentally ill.
- La CHIP
http://www.dhh.state.la.us/offices/?ID=119
LaCHIP stands for "Louisiana Children's Health Insurance Program." If your child is younger than 19 and does not have health insurance, he or she could get LaCHIP to pay for seeing a doctor or dentist.
LaCHIP covers care at a hospital, prescription drugs and shots, too!
- LA Department of Education
http://www.doe.state.la.us/lde/index.html
A resource guide for everything education, from grants to afterschool help to school report cards. This site is very informative.
- LA Department of Health & Hospitals
http://www.dhh.state.la.us/
The mission of the Department of Health and Hospitals is to protect and promote health and to ensure access to medical, preventive, and rehabilitative services for all citizens of the State of Louisiana.
- LA Department of Social Services
http://www.dss.state.la.us/index.htm
Our commitment is to improving the quality of life for the state's individuals, children and families.
- LA Dept of Community Development - Assistance Resource Center
http://www.doa.state.la.us/arc/
LARC is a searchable database of grants, loans, technical assistance,
funding opportunities and other resources for Louisiana parishes, cities,
towns, communities, and faith-based and non-profit organizations.
- La Moms
http://www.lamoms.dhh.louisiana.gov
No-Cost Health Insurance for Pregnant Women
1-888-342-6207
- Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana
http://www.pcal.org/main.htm
Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana is a volunteer-based organization dedicated to preventing the abuse and neglect of our state's children. Our mission is carried out through the development, implementation and support of child abuse prevention activities in Louisiana.
- Safe Haven
http://www.pcal.org/proserv_kidline_haven.htm#
"Safe Haven" refers to a designated emergency care facility where a parent may anonymously leave his/her infant child, with the intent of placing the child for adoption, without fear of prosecution. It is important to note that the infant must be left in the care of an individual at a designated emergency care facility without a statement of an intention that someone will return for the child. If the baby is left unattended, for instance on a doorstep or in a bathroom, it will not meet the criteria for a safe haven relinquishment. This law gives parents a mechanism to safely and anonymously relinquish the care of their newborn to the state without fear of prosecution.
1-800-CHILDREN (244-5373)
733 East Airport Avenue, Ste. 101
- Start Corporation
http://startcorp.org/index.html
The mission of Start Corporation is to promote opportunities, which enhance the self-sufficiency of people who are impared in their abilities to live and function independently.
- Terrebonne Children's Advocacy Center
http://www.cacla.com/centers.html
The TCAC, a private, non-profit agency, has been initiated by the Terrebonne Parish District Attorneys Office as an effort to coordinate the Terrebonne Parish community's response to the problem of child abuse. It is a place where children can be interviewed about reports of abuse in a warm, homelike, "child-friendly" setting. By agreement, child protection and law enforcement agencies, as well as the DA's office refer all cases of child sexual abuse and severe physical abuse to the Children's Advocacy Center. This makes it possible for interviews with child victims to take place primarily at the center, so that, with some exceptions, children are no longer taken from agency to agency.
985 872-5437
500 School St., Houma
- Tri-Parish Adult Education
http://www.lafourche.k12.la.us/adulted/about.asp
Providing education for helping your child with homework and much more.
