St. Bernard Project, a United Way partner agency, is responding to the spill by expanding their mental health clinic to Lower St. Bernard and Plaquemines and creating jobs for fisherman through their Good Work Good Pay (GWGP) program. The Center for Wellness and Mental Health will have increased hours of operation and will attempt to hire local shrimpers and/or their spouses as community outreach workers and peer counselors. The GWGP program will hire, train and pay livable, union-level wages with full benefits to local fishermen affected by the oil spill (as well as other local under- and unemployed individuals and war veterans.)
The immediate ramifications of the oil spill and the long-term impact will result in mental health problems for the residents of St. Bernard, Plaquemines and Orleans parishes reports Michelle Many, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Professor in LSU's Department of Psychiatry. The recent oil spill has already brought a blow to the prolonged recovery from Katrina, and LSU clinicians report that residents are suffering from re-traumatization. "Much research has shown that people who have a history of PTSD (as a quarter of Katrina survivors do), have an increased risk to develop PTSD again."
Uncertainty about the scope of the spill and the impact on residents' livelihoods, is causing increased stress. Receiving assistance checks makes many fishers feel a sense of shame. These feelings, along with the loss and anxiety about the worsening situation in the Gulf, can be triggers for major depression, anxiety and other acute mental health problems. Finally, because many shrimpers and fisherman are self-employed, they do not have health insurance and cannot afford to seek services from the other mental health providers in the community.
1. fishermen are desperately afraid that they will not be able to support their families, and that generation-surviving employment, lifestyle and recreational pursuits will be forever foreclosed;
2. fishermen are staying away from home because they fear they will contaminate their families if they participate in cleanup and because they do not know how to healthily communicate with their family members about their anguish;
3. wives/partners do not know how to communicate with their husbands/partners to allay their own fears or to sooth/comfort their husbands;
4. suicidal ideations, debilitating anxiety and depression are increasing dramatically for people whose lives intertwine with a water-based culture; and
5. residents are amenable to receiving mental health and wellness services because they know that their current mental status will further debilitate them.
1. Conduct training and provide support for a Peer-to-Peer wellness and counseling program using a model that was effective post 911 in NYC;
2. Provide 42 additional clinical hours of free licensed mental health and wellness services
3. (one-on-one and group sessions) in current Chalmette location of our Center for Wellness and Mental Health; Replicate our Center for Wellness and Mental Health in Lower St. Bernard and in Plaquemines Parish and provide at least 70 clinical hours each week in each location;
4. Hire wives and family members of fishermen to conduct community outreach and referral services.
St. Bernard Project's Center for Wellness and Mental Health
Three years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita rendered uninhabitable all 27,000 homes in St. Bernard Parish, less than 50% of the population has returned. Even for those who have returned, many are not yet living in their homes. Nearly 2,000 families still reside in FEMA trailers, and thousands of others live in FEMA/DHS supported housing (ending in March 2009) or in over-crowded family houses. In St. Bernard nearly 75% of the 25,000 homeowners did not have adequate insurance. These homeowners, following the recommendations outlined by FEMA’s flood maps, did not purchase flood insurance because they were told that their communities were not at risk of flooding.
Nearly two years after the federal government initiated its Road Home program to help families return and rebuild, an unacceptable number of homeowners are still waiting for assistance. According to a report published by the Brookings Institution in August 2008, only 70% of all qualified applicants for federal Road Home assistance have received funding through the program. To further compound the problems with the Road Home program, an independent study determined that the majority of Road Home recipients did not receive sufficient funds to rebuild. The small size and slow pace of the grants being awarded has resulted in an unnecessarily slow recovery for residents in St. Bernard Parish.
St. Bernard Project's Rebuilding Program is succeeding where others have failed. Our program serves financially challenged clients in three categories: elderly, disabled, and families with small children. By utilizing volunteer labor, skilled supervisors and affordable building supplies, we are able to return clients to their homes by completing volunteer labor in just 12 weeks. The cost to the Project is approximately $12,000 per home. To date the Rebuilding Program has completely rebuilt 167 families’ homes. We are currently at work on more than 30 damaged homes.
In order to further contribute to the health and stability of the area, SBP developed a partnership with LSU to open the Center for Wellness and Mental (CMWH). The CWMH will be offered from a private section of the St. Bernard Project’s office, a place that residents have visited to access our Rebuilding Program and in which they have developed strong institutional thrust. By operating the CWMH under the same roof as the Rebuilding Program, residents will benefit from a one-stop shopping model that will minimize the stigma that is often associated with accessing mental health services.
The CWMH will begin offering services January 19, 2009 for participants in the St. Bernard Project and other St. Bernard residents including children, adolescents, adults and families. The CMWH will offer both group and individual services including The Welcome Home Program, which will be available to all new participants/families of the St. Bernard Project as they begin the rebuilding process to encourage and support the “psychological rebuilding” that optimally should accompany the structural rebuilding of homes.
St. Bernard Project's Good Work Good Pay Program PDF Print E-mail
SBP recognizes the immense value of our 20,000+ volunteers. The work they have done in the past and will continue to do in the future is a vital component of our mission. However, we realize that a disaster relief model relying solely on volunteers -- and a disaster relief model that takes four and a half years (and counting) to return families to their homes can become even more effective. SBP believes it has found an innovative and replicable solution.
Our newest program, the Good Work Good Pay (GWGP) Program, will hire returned war veterans and other local under and unemployed individuals to build and rebuild affordable housing units. We will pay our new employees livable, union-level wages with full benefits. This will give us the skilled and consistent workforce needed to not only rebuild homes more efficiently for those who owned their homes before Hurricane Katrina, but also to create brand new affordable housing for our lowest income clients.
GWGP will not replace the volunteer-driven rebuilding model that is so essential to our mission but, rather, will work in tandem with it. By using the two programs to complement each other, SBP will be able to keep costs low while substantially increasing the number of units it can complete in a single year. In 2009, SBP was able to return 100 families home. In GWGP's first year, we anticipate completing a minimum of 186 homes. In that same first year, SBP will create over 30 living wage-paying jobs for veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Executive Director, Zack Rosenburg, explains how SBP arrived at this innovative solution: “In New Orleans there is an unmet demand for 20,019 affordable housing units and at the same time, we have an unemployment crisis which is amplified in the case of veterans. One in nine veterans are currently unemployed. Our country’s returned veterans are not just statistics – they are people who have faced great danger and put themselves at great risk during their tours of duty. This is a solvable problem and we intend to solve it.”
Veterans face a variety of challenges when trying to reenter the workforce upon returning home. Robert Pearson, 23 years of age and a former paratrooper explains, “A job counselor once told me that some employers consider a military record ‘almost like having a felony’ because of the negative, unstable emotional health issues associated with armed service.”
While many employers avoid hiring veterans, SBP sees this as an incredible opportunity. A recent study showed that 88% of veterans surveyed said that disaster relief is something they, personally, consider to be “very important” as they move forward in their civilian lives.
“True, some may suffer from post traumatic stress disorder,” admits SBP’s Director of Construction and himself a veteran, Jim MacQueen. “But veterans are mature, accustomed to following directions, understand the advantages of teamwork, are problem solvers and I am so excited to begin working with them. It will do great things for our organization.”
Zack believes SBP is creating a program that can be replicated around the country. “While our city had the misfortune of Katrina, cities across the United States are struggling with the same blighted properties, high unemployment rate, and lack of affordable housing as New Orleans. We believe we are creating a model for recovery that will not only help New Orleans and other natural disaster-affected areas, but will also help any city suffering from the deterioration that accompanies economic disaster.”
The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Mon Sep 03 21:06:31 +0000 2012 by DNug:added facebook addy
notes: FROM THE UNITED WAY SITE 6/10:
United Way Impact Partners At Work
St. Bernard Project, a United Way partner agency, is responding to the spill by expanding their mental health clinic to Lower St. Bernard and Plaquemines and creating jobs for fisherman through their Good Work Good Pay (GWGP) program. The Center for Wellness and Mental Health will have increased hours of operation and will attempt to hire local shrimpers and/or their spouses as community outreach workers and peer counselors. The GWGP program will hire, train and pay livable, union-level wages with full benefits to local fishermen affected by the oil spill (as well as other local under- and unemployed individuals and war veterans.)
The Oil Spill and SBP (From the site)
The immediate ramifications of the oil spill and the long-term impact will result in mental health problems for the residents of St. Bernard, Plaquemines and Orleans parishes reports Michelle Many, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Professor in LSU's Department of Psychiatry. The recent oil spill has already brought a blow to the prolonged recovery from Katrina, and LSU clinicians report that residents are suffering from re-traumatization. "Much research has shown that people who have a history of PTSD (as a quarter of Katrina survivors do), have an increased risk to develop PTSD again."
Uncertainty about the scope of the spill and the impact on residents' livelihoods, is causing increased stress. Receiving assistance checks makes many fishers feel a sense of shame. These feelings, along with the loss and anxiety about the worsening situation in the Gulf, can be triggers for major depression, anxiety and other acute mental health problems. Finally, because many shrimpers and fisherman are self-employed, they do not have health insurance and cannot afford to seek services from the other mental health providers in the community.
Via focus groups, we have learned:
1. fishermen are desperately afraid that they will not be able to support their families, and that generation-surviving employment, lifestyle and recreational pursuits will be forever foreclosed;
2. fishermen are staying away from home because they fear they will contaminate their families if they participate in cleanup and because they do not know how to healthily communicate with their family members about their anguish;
3. wives/partners do not know how to communicate with their husbands/partners to allay their own fears or to sooth/comfort their husbands;
4. suicidal ideations, debilitating anxiety and depression are increasing dramatically for people whose lives intertwine with a water-based culture; and
5. residents are amenable to receiving mental health and wellness services because they know that their current mental status will further debilitate them.
SBP's Proposed Solutions: Expand mental health services and create jobs
1. Conduct training and provide support for a Peer-to-Peer wellness and counseling program using a model that was effective post 911 in NYC;
2. Provide 42 additional clinical hours of free licensed mental health and wellness services
3. (one-on-one and group sessions) in current Chalmette location of our Center for Wellness and Mental Health; Replicate our Center for Wellness and Mental Health in Lower St. Bernard and in Plaquemines Parish and provide at least 70 clinical hours each week in each location;
4. Hire wives and family members of fishermen to conduct community outreach and referral services.
---------------------------------------
FROM THE SITE:
St. Bernard Project's Center for Wellness and Mental Health
Three years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita rendered uninhabitable all 27,000 homes in St. Bernard Parish, less than 50% of the population has returned. Even for those who have returned, many are not yet living in their homes. Nearly 2,000 families still reside in FEMA trailers, and thousands of others live in FEMA/DHS supported housing (ending in March 2009) or in over-crowded family houses. In St. Bernard nearly 75% of the 25,000 homeowners did not have adequate insurance. These homeowners, following the recommendations outlined by FEMA’s flood maps, did not purchase flood insurance because they were told that their communities were not at risk of flooding.
Nearly two years after the federal government initiated its Road Home program to help families return and rebuild, an unacceptable number of homeowners are still waiting for assistance. According to a report published by the Brookings Institution in August 2008, only 70% of all qualified applicants for federal Road Home assistance have received funding through the program. To further compound the problems with the Road Home program, an independent study determined that the majority of Road Home recipients did not receive sufficient funds to rebuild. The small size and slow pace of the grants being awarded has resulted in an unnecessarily slow recovery for residents in St. Bernard Parish.
St. Bernard Project's Rebuilding Program is succeeding where others have failed. Our program serves financially challenged clients in three categories: elderly, disabled, and families with small children. By utilizing volunteer labor, skilled supervisors and affordable building supplies, we are able to return clients to their homes by completing volunteer labor in just 12 weeks. The cost to the Project is approximately $12,000 per home. To date the Rebuilding Program has completely rebuilt 167 families’ homes. We are currently at work on more than 30 damaged homes.
In order to further contribute to the health and stability of the area, SBP developed a partnership with LSU to open the Center for Wellness and Mental (CMWH). The CWMH will be offered from a private section of the St. Bernard Project’s office, a place that residents have visited to access our Rebuilding Program and in which they have developed strong institutional thrust. By operating the CWMH under the same roof as the Rebuilding Program, residents will benefit from a one-stop shopping model that will minimize the stigma that is often associated with accessing mental health services.
The CWMH will begin offering services January 19, 2009 for participants in the St. Bernard Project and other St. Bernard residents including children, adolescents, adults and families. The CMWH will offer both group and individual services including The Welcome Home Program, which will be available to all new participants/families of the St. Bernard Project as they begin the rebuilding process to encourage and support the “psychological rebuilding” that optimally should accompany the structural rebuilding of homes.
St. Bernard Project's Good Work Good Pay Program PDF Print E-mail
SBP recognizes the immense value of our 20,000+ volunteers. The work they have done in the past and will continue to do in the future is a vital component of our mission. However, we realize that a disaster relief model relying solely on volunteers -- and a disaster relief model that takes four and a half years (and counting) to return families to their homes can become even more effective. SBP believes it has found an innovative and replicable solution.
Our newest program, the Good Work Good Pay (GWGP) Program, will hire returned war veterans and other local under and unemployed individuals to build and rebuild affordable housing units. We will pay our new employees livable, union-level wages with full benefits. This will give us the skilled and consistent workforce needed to not only rebuild homes more efficiently for those who owned their homes before Hurricane Katrina, but also to create brand new affordable housing for our lowest income clients.
GWGP will not replace the volunteer-driven rebuilding model that is so essential to our mission but, rather, will work in tandem with it. By using the two programs to complement each other, SBP will be able to keep costs low while substantially increasing the number of units it can complete in a single year. In 2009, SBP was able to return 100 families home. In GWGP's first year, we anticipate completing a minimum of 186 homes. In that same first year, SBP will create over 30 living wage-paying jobs for veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Executive Director, Zack Rosenburg, explains how SBP arrived at this innovative solution: “In New Orleans there is an unmet demand for 20,019 affordable housing units and at the same time, we have an unemployment crisis which is amplified in the case of veterans. One in nine veterans are currently unemployed. Our country’s returned veterans are not just statistics – they are people who have faced great danger and put themselves at great risk during their tours of duty. This is a solvable problem and we intend to solve it.”
Veterans face a variety of challenges when trying to reenter the workforce upon returning home. Robert Pearson, 23 years of age and a former paratrooper explains, “A job counselor once told me that some employers consider a military record ‘almost like having a felony’ because of the negative, unstable emotional health issues associated with armed service.”
While many employers avoid hiring veterans, SBP sees this as an incredible opportunity. A recent study showed that 88% of veterans surveyed said that disaster relief is something they, personally, consider to be “very important” as they move forward in their civilian lives.
“True, some may suffer from post traumatic stress disorder,” admits SBP’s Director of Construction and himself a veteran, Jim MacQueen. “But veterans are mature, accustomed to following directions, understand the advantages of teamwork, are problem solvers and I am so excited to begin working with them. It will do great things for our organization.”
Zack believes SBP is creating a program that can be replicated around the country. “While our city had the misfortune of Katrina, cities across the United States are struggling with the same blighted properties, high unemployment rate, and lack of affordable housing as New Orleans. We believe we are creating a model for recovery that will not only help New Orleans and other natural disaster-affected areas, but will also help any city suffering from the deterioration that accompanies economic disaster.”
=======================================
The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We can?t operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required ? we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie @stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet. -> FACEBOOK -
https://www.facebook.com/stbernardproject
====
FROM THE UNITED WAY SITE 6/10:
United Way Impact Partners At Work
St. Bernard Project, a United Way partner agency, is responding to the spill by expanding their mental health clinic to Lower St. Bernard and Plaquemines and creating jobs for fisherman through their Good Work Good Pay (GWGP) program. The Center for Wellness and Mental Health will have increased hours of operation and will attempt to hire local shrimpers and/or their spouses as community outreach workers and peer counselors. The GWGP program will hire, train and pay livable, union-level wages with full benefits to local fishermen affected by the oil spill (as well as other local under- and unemployed individuals and war veterans.)
The Oil Spill and SBP (From the site)
The immediate ramifications of the oil spill and the long-term impact will result in mental health problems for the residents of St. Bernard, Plaquemines and Orleans parishes reports Michelle Many, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Professor in LSU's Department of Psychiatry. The recent oil spill has already brought a blow to the prolonged recovery from Katrina, and LSU clinicians report that residents are suffering from re-traumatization. "Much research has shown that people who have a history of PTSD (as a quarter of Katrina survivors do), have an increased risk to develop PTSD again."
Uncertainty about the scope of the spill and the impact on residents' livelihoods, is causing increased stress. Receiving assistance checks makes many fishers feel a sense of shame. These feelings, along with the loss and anxiety about the worsening situation in the Gulf, can be triggers for major depression, anxiety and other acute mental health problems. Finally, because many shrimpers and fisherman are self-employed, they do not have health insurance and cannot afford to seek services from the other mental health providers in the community.
Via focus groups, we have learned:
1. fishermen are desperately afraid that they will not be able to support their families, and that generation-surviving employment, lifestyle and recreational pursuits will be forever foreclosed;
2. fishermen are staying away from home because they fear they will contaminate their families if they participate in cleanup and because they do not know how to healthily communicate with their family members about their anguish;
3. wives/partners do not know how to communicate with their husbands/partners to allay their own fears or to sooth/comfort their husbands;
4. suicidal ideations, debilitating anxiety and depression are increasing dramatically for people whose lives intertwine with a water-based culture; and
5. residents are amenable to receiving mental health and wellness services because they know that their current mental status will further debilitate them.
SBP's Proposed Solutions: Expand mental health services and create jobs
1. Conduct training and provide support for a Peer-to-Peer wellness and counseling program using a model that was effective post 911 in NYC;
2. Provide 42 additional clinical hours of free licensed mental health and wellness services
3. (one-on-one and group sessions) in current Chalmette location of our Center for Wellness and Mental Health; Replicate our Center for Wellness and Mental Health in Lower St. Bernard and in Plaquemines Parish and provide at least 70 clinical hours each week in each location;
4. Hire wives and family members of fishermen to conduct community outreach and referral services.
---------------------------------------
FROM THE SITE:
St. Bernard Project's Center for Wellness and Mental Health
Three years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita rendered uninhabitable all 27,000 homes in St. Bernard Parish, less than 50% of the population has returned. Even for those who have returned, many are not yet living in their homes. Nearly 2,000 families still reside in FEMA trailers, and thousands of others live in FEMA/DHS supported housing (ending in March 2009) or in over-crowded family houses. In St. Bernard nearly 75% of the 25,000 homeowners did not have adequate insurance. These homeowners, following the recommendations outlined by FEMA’s flood maps, did not purchase flood insurance because they were told that their communities were not at risk of flooding.
Nearly two years after the federal government initiated its Road Home program to help families return and rebuild, an unacceptable number of homeowners are still waiting for assistance. According to a report published by the Brookings Institution in August 2008, only 70% of all qualified applicants for federal Road Home assistance have received funding through the program. To further compound the problems with the Road Home program, an independent study determined that the majority of Road Home recipients did not receive sufficient funds to rebuild. The small size and slow pace of the grants being awarded has resulted in an unnecessarily slow recovery for residents in St. Bernard Parish.
St. Bernard Project's Rebuilding Program is succeeding where others have failed. Our program serves financially challenged clients in three categories: elderly, disabled, and families with small children. By utilizing volunteer labor, skilled supervisors and affordable building supplies, we are able to return clients to their homes by completing volunteer labor in just 12 weeks. The cost to the Project is approximately $12,000 per home. To date the Rebuilding Program has completely rebuilt 167 families’ homes. We are currently at work on more than 30 damaged homes.
In order to further contribute to the health and stability of the area, SBP developed a partnership with LSU to open the Center for Wellness and Mental (CMWH). The CWMH will be offered from a private section of the St. Bernard Project’s office, a place that residents have visited to access our Rebuilding Program and in which they have developed strong institutional thrust. By operating the CWMH under the same roof as the Rebuilding Program, residents will benefit from a one-stop shopping model that will minimize the stigma that is often associated with accessing mental health services.
The CWMH will begin offering services January 19, 2009 for participants in the St. Bernard Project and other St. Bernard residents including children, adolescents, adults and families. The CMWH will offer both group and individual services including The Welcome Home Program, which will be available to all new participants/families of the St. Bernard Project as they begin the rebuilding process to encourage and support the “psychological rebuilding” that optimally should accompany the structural rebuilding of homes.
St. Bernard Project's Good Work Good Pay Program PDF Print E-mail
SBP recognizes the immense value of our 20,000+ volunteers. The work they have done in the past and will continue to do in the future is a vital component of our mission. However, we realize that a disaster relief model relying solely on volunteers -- and a disaster relief model that takes four and a half years (and counting) to return families to their homes can become even more effective. SBP believes it has found an innovative and replicable solution.
Our newest program, the Good Work Good Pay (GWGP) Program, will hire returned war veterans and other local under and unemployed individuals to build and rebuild affordable housing units. We will pay our new employees livable, union-level wages with full benefits. This will give us the skilled and consistent workforce needed to not only rebuild homes more efficiently for those who owned their homes before Hurricane Katrina, but also to create brand new affordable housing for our lowest income clients.
GWGP will not replace the volunteer-driven rebuilding model that is so essential to our mission but, rather, will work in tandem with it. By using the two programs to complement each other, SBP will be able to keep costs low while substantially increasing the number of units it can complete in a single year. In 2009, SBP was able to return 100 families home. In GWGP's first year, we anticipate completing a minimum of 186 homes. In that same first year, SBP will create over 30 living wage-paying jobs for veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Executive Director, Zack Rosenburg, explains how SBP arrived at this innovative solution: “In New Orleans there is an unmet demand for 20,019 affordable housing units and at the same time, we have an unemployment crisis which is amplified in the case of veterans. One in nine veterans are currently unemployed. Our country’s returned veterans are not just statistics – they are people who have faced great danger and put themselves at great risk during their tours of duty. This is a solvable problem and we intend to solve it.”
Veterans face a variety of challenges when trying to reenter the workforce upon returning home. Robert Pearson, 23 years of age and a former paratrooper explains, “A job counselor once told me that some employers consider a military record ‘almost like having a felony’ because of the negative, unstable emotional health issues associated with armed service.”
While many employers avoid hiring veterans, SBP sees this as an incredible opportunity. A recent study showed that 88% of veterans surveyed said that disaster relief is something they, personally, consider to be “very important” as they move forward in their civilian lives.
“True, some may suffer from post traumatic stress disorder,” admits SBP’s Director of Construction and himself a veteran, Jim MacQueen. “But veterans are mature, accustomed to following directions, understand the advantages of teamwork, are problem solvers and I am so excited to begin working with them. It will do great things for our organization.”
Zack believes SBP is creating a program that can be replicated around the country. “While our city had the misfortune of Katrina, cities across the United States are struggling with the same blighted properties, high unemployment rate, and lack of affordable housing as New Orleans. We believe we are creating a model for recovery that will not only help New Orleans and other natural disaster-affected areas, but will also help any city suffering from the deterioration that accompanies economic disaster.”
=======================================
The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We can?t operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required ? we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie @stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet.
(show/hide changes)Mon Jun 21 13:49:51 +0000 2010 by LTel:notes: FROM THE UNITED WAY SITE 6/10:
United Way Impact Partners At Work
St. Bernard Project, a United Way partner agency, is responding to the spill by expanding their mental health clinic to Lower St. Bernard and Plaquemines and creating jobs for fisherman through their Good Work Good Pay (GWGP) program. The Center for Wellness and Mental Health will have increased hours of operation and will attempt to hire local shrimpers and/or their spouses as community outreach workers and peer counselors. The GWGP program will hire, train and pay livable, union-level wages with full benefits to local fishermen affected by the oil spill (as well as other local under- and unemployed individuals and war veterans.)
FROM THE SITE:
St. Bernard Project's Center for Wellness and Mental Health
Three years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita rendered uninhabitable all 27,000 homes in St. Bernard Parish, less than 50% of the population has returned. Even for those who have returned, many are not yet living in their homes. Nearly 2,000 families still reside in FEMA trailers, and thousands of others live in FEMA/DHS supported housing (ending in March 2009) or in over-crowded family houses. In St. Bernard nearly 75% of the 25,000 homeowners did not have adequate insurance. These homeowners, following the recommendations outlined by FEMA’s flood maps, did not purchase flood insurance because they were told that their communities were not at risk of flooding.
Nearly two years after the federal government initiated its Road Home program to help families return and rebuild, an unacceptable number of homeowners are still waiting for assistance. According to a report published by the Brookings Institution in August 2008, only 70% of all qualified applicants for federal Road Home assistance have received funding through the program. To further compound the problems with the Road Home program, an independent study determined that the majority of Road Home recipients did not receive sufficient funds to rebuild. The small size and slow pace of the grants being awarded has resulted in an unnecessarily slow recovery for residents in St. Bernard Parish.
St. Bernard Project's Rebuilding Program is succeeding where others have failed. Our program serves financially challenged clients in three categories: elderly, disabled, and families with small children. By utilizing volunteer labor, skilled supervisors and affordable building supplies, we are able to return clients to their homes by completing volunteer labor in just 12 weeks. The cost to the Project is approximately $12,000 per home. To date the Rebuilding Program has completely rebuilt 167 families’ homes. We are currently at work on more than 30 damaged homes.
In order to further contribute to the health and stability of the area, SBP developed a partnership with LSU to open the Center for Wellness and Mental (CMWH). The CWMH will be offered from a private section of the St. Bernard Project’s office, a place that residents have visited to access our Rebuilding Program and in which they have developed strong institutional thrust. By operating the CWMH under the same roof as the Rebuilding Program, residents will benefit from a one-stop shopping model that will minimize the stigma that is often associated with accessing mental health services.
The CWMH will begin offering services January 19, 2009 for participants in the St. Bernard Project and other St. Bernard residents including children, adolescents, adults and families. The CMWH will offer both group and individual services including The Welcome Home Program, which will be available to all new participants/families of the St. Bernard Project as they begin the rebuilding process to encourage and support the “psychological rebuilding” that optimally should accompany the structural rebuilding of homes.
St. Bernard Project's Good Work Good Pay Program PDF Print E-mail
SBP recognizes the immense value of our 20,000+ volunteers. The work they have done in the past and will continue to do in the future is a vital component of our mission. However, we realize that a disaster relief model relying solely on volunteers -- and a disaster relief model that takes four and a half years (and counting) to return families to their homes can become even more effective. SBP believes it has found an innovative and replicable solution.
Our newest program, the Good Work Good Pay (GWGP) Program, will hire returned war veterans and other local under and unemployed individuals to build and rebuild affordable housing units. We will pay our new employees livable, union-level wages with full benefits. This will give us the skilled and consistent workforce needed to not only rebuild homes more efficiently for those who owned their homes before Hurricane Katrina, but also to create brand new affordable housing for our lowest income clients.
GWGP will not replace the volunteer-driven rebuilding model that is so essential to our mission but, rather, will work in tandem with it. By using the two programs to complement each other, SBP will be able to keep costs low while substantially increasing the number of units it can complete in a single year. In 2009, SBP was able to return 100 families home. In GWGP's first year, we anticipate completing a minimum of 186 homes. In that same first year, SBP will create over 30 living wage-paying jobs for veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Executive Director, Zack Rosenburg, explains how SBP arrived at this innovative solution: “In New Orleans there is an unmet demand for 20,019 affordable housing units and at the same time, we have an unemployment crisis which is amplified in the case of veterans. One in nine veterans are currently unemployed. Our country’s returned veterans are not just statistics – they are people who have faced great danger and put themselves at great risk during their tours of duty. This is a solvable problem and we intend to solve it.”
Veterans face a variety of challenges when trying to reenter the workforce upon returning home. Robert Pearson, 23 years of age and a former paratrooper explains, “A job counselor once told me that some employers consider a military record ‘almost like having a felony’ because of the negative, unstable emotional health issues associated with armed service.”
While many employers avoid hiring veterans, SBP sees this as an incredible opportunity. A recent study showed that 88% of veterans surveyed said that disaster relief is something they, personally, consider to be “very important” as they move forward in their civilian lives.
“True, some may suffer from post traumatic stress disorder,” admits SBP’s Director of Construction and himself a veteran, Jim MacQueen. “But veterans are mature, accustomed to following directions, understand the advantages of teamwork, are problem solvers and I am so excited to begin working with them. It will do great things for our organization.”
Zack believes SBP is creating a program that can be replicated around the country. “While our city had the misfortune of Katrina, cities across the United States are struggling with the same blighted properties, high unemployment rate, and lack of affordable housing as New Orleans. We believe we are creating a model for recovery that will not only help New Orleans and other natural disaster-affected areas, but will also help any city suffering from the deterioration that accompanies economic disaster.”
=======================================
The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We can?t operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required ? we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie @stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet. -> FROM THE UNITED WAY SITE 6/10:
United Way Impact Partners At Work
St. Bernard Project, a United Way partner agency, is responding to the spill by expanding their mental health clinic to Lower St. Bernard and Plaquemines and creating jobs for fisherman through their Good Work Good Pay (GWGP) program. The Center for Wellness and Mental Health will have increased hours of operation and will attempt to hire local shrimpers and/or their spouses as community outreach workers and peer counselors. The GWGP program will hire, train and pay livable, union-level wages with full benefits to local fishermen affected by the oil spill (as well as other local under- and unemployed individuals and war veterans.)
The Oil Spill and SBP (From the site)
The immediate ramifications of the oil spill and the long-term impact will result in mental health problems for the residents of St. Bernard, Plaquemines and Orleans parishes reports Michelle Many, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Professor in LSU's Department of Psychiatry. The recent oil spill has already brought a blow to the prolonged recovery from Katrina, and LSU clinicians report that residents are suffering from re-traumatization. "Much research has shown that people who have a history of PTSD (as a quarter of Katrina survivors do), have an increased risk to develop PTSD again."
Uncertainty about the scope of the spill and the impact on residents' livelihoods, is causing increased stress. Receiving assistance checks makes many fishers feel a sense of shame. These feelings, along with the loss and anxiety about the worsening situation in the Gulf, can be triggers for major depression, anxiety and other acute mental health problems. Finally, because many shrimpers and fisherman are self-employed, they do not have health insurance and cannot afford to seek services from the other mental health providers in the community.
Via focus groups, we have learned:
1. fishermen are desperately afraid that they will not be able to support their families, and that generation-surviving employment, lifestyle and recreational pursuits will be forever foreclosed;
2. fishermen are staying away from home because they fear they will contaminate their families if they participate in cleanup and because they do not know how to healthily communicate with their family members about their anguish;
3. wives/partners do not know how to communicate with their husbands/partners to allay their own fears or to sooth/comfort their husbands;
4. suicidal ideations, debilitating anxiety and depression are increasing dramatically for people whose lives intertwine with a water-based culture; and
5. residents are amenable to receiving mental health and wellness services because they know that their current mental status will further debilitate them.
SBP's Proposed Solutions: Expand mental health services and create jobs
1. Conduct training and provide support for a Peer-to-Peer wellness and counseling program using a model that was effective post 911 in NYC;
2. Provide 42 additional clinical hours of free licensed mental health and wellness services
3. (one-on-one and group sessions) in current Chalmette location of our Center for Wellness and Mental Health; Replicate our Center for Wellness and Mental Health in Lower St. Bernard and in Plaquemines Parish and provide at least 70 clinical hours each week in each location;
4. Hire wives and family members of fishermen to conduct community outreach and referral services.
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FROM THE SITE:
St. Bernard Project's Center for Wellness and Mental Health
Three years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita rendered uninhabitable all 27,000 homes in St. Bernard Parish, less than 50% of the population has returned. Even for those who have returned, many are not yet living in their homes. Nearly 2,000 families still reside in FEMA trailers, and thousands of others live in FEMA/DHS supported housing (ending in March 2009) or in over-crowded family houses. In St. Bernard nearly 75% of the 25,000 homeowners did not have adequate insurance. These homeowners, following the recommendations outlined by FEMA’s flood maps, did not purchase flood insurance because they were told that their communities were not at risk of flooding.
Nearly two years after the federal government initiated its Road Home program to help families return and rebuild, an unacceptable number of homeowners are still waiting for assistance. According to a report published by the Brookings Institution in August 2008, only 70% of all qualified applicants for federal Road Home assistance have received funding through the program. To further compound the problems with the Road Home program, an independent study determined that the majority of Road Home recipients did not receive sufficient funds to rebuild. The small size and slow pace of the grants being awarded has resulted in an unnecessarily slow recovery for residents in St. Bernard Parish.
St. Bernard Project's Rebuilding Program is succeeding where others have failed. Our program serves financially challenged clients in three categories: elderly, disabled, and families with small children. By utilizing volunteer labor, skilled supervisors and affordable building supplies, we are able to return clients to their homes by completing volunteer labor in just 12 weeks. The cost to the Project is approximately $12,000 per home. To date the Rebuilding Program has completely rebuilt 167 families’ homes. We are currently at work on more than 30 damaged homes.
In order to further contribute to the health and stability of the area, SBP developed a partnership with LSU to open the Center for Wellness and Mental (CMWH). The CWMH will be offered from a private section of the St. Bernard Project’s office, a place that residents have visited to access our Rebuilding Program and in which they have developed strong institutional thrust. By operating the CWMH under the same roof as the Rebuilding Program, residents will benefit from a one-stop shopping model that will minimize the stigma that is often associated with accessing mental health services.
The CWMH will begin offering services January 19, 2009 for participants in the St. Bernard Project and other St. Bernard residents including children, adolescents, adults and families. The CMWH will offer both group and individual services including The Welcome Home Program, which will be available to all new participants/families of the St. Bernard Project as they begin the rebuilding process to encourage and support the “psychological rebuilding” that optimally should accompany the structural rebuilding of homes.
St. Bernard Project's Good Work Good Pay Program PDF Print E-mail
SBP recognizes the immense value of our 20,000+ volunteers. The work they have done in the past and will continue to do in the future is a vital component of our mission. However, we realize that a disaster relief model relying solely on volunteers -- and a disaster relief model that takes four and a half years (and counting) to return families to their homes can become even more effective. SBP believes it has found an innovative and replicable solution.
Our newest program, the Good Work Good Pay (GWGP) Program, will hire returned war veterans and other local under and unemployed individuals to build and rebuild affordable housing units. We will pay our new employees livable, union-level wages with full benefits. This will give us the skilled and consistent workforce needed to not only rebuild homes more efficiently for those who owned their homes before Hurricane Katrina, but also to create brand new affordable housing for our lowest income clients.
GWGP will not replace the volunteer-driven rebuilding model that is so essential to our mission but, rather, will work in tandem with it. By using the two programs to complement each other, SBP will be able to keep costs low while substantially increasing the number of units it can complete in a single year. In 2009, SBP was able to return 100 families home. In GWGP's first year, we anticipate completing a minimum of 186 homes. In that same first year, SBP will create over 30 living wage-paying jobs for veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Executive Director, Zack Rosenburg, explains how SBP arrived at this innovative solution: “In New Orleans there is an unmet demand for 20,019 affordable housing units and at the same time, we have an unemployment crisis which is amplified in the case of veterans. One in nine veterans are currently unemployed. Our country’s returned veterans are not just statistics – they are people who have faced great danger and put themselves at great risk during their tours of duty. This is a solvable problem and we intend to solve it.”
Veterans face a variety of challenges when trying to reenter the workforce upon returning home. Robert Pearson, 23 years of age and a former paratrooper explains, “A job counselor once told me that some employers consider a military record ‘almost like having a felony’ because of the negative, unstable emotional health issues associated with armed service.”
While many employers avoid hiring veterans, SBP sees this as an incredible opportunity. A recent study showed that 88% of veterans surveyed said that disaster relief is something they, personally, consider to be “very important” as they move forward in their civilian lives.
“True, some may suffer from post traumatic stress disorder,” admits SBP’s Director of Construction and himself a veteran, Jim MacQueen. “But veterans are mature, accustomed to following directions, understand the advantages of teamwork, are problem solvers and I am so excited to begin working with them. It will do great things for our organization.”
Zack believes SBP is creating a program that can be replicated around the country. “While our city had the misfortune of Katrina, cities across the United States are struggling with the same blighted properties, high unemployment rate, and lack of affordable housing as New Orleans. We believe we are creating a model for recovery that will not only help New Orleans and other natural disaster-affected areas, but will also help any city suffering from the deterioration that accompanies economic disaster.”
=======================================
The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We can?t operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required ? we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie @stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet.
(show/hide changes)Mon Jun 21 13:45:23 +0000 2010 by LTel:notes: FROM THE UNITED WAY SITE 6/10:
United Way Impact Partners At Work
St. Bernard Project, a United Way partner agency, is responding to the spill by expanding their mental health clinic to Lower St. Bernard and Plaquemines and creating jobs for fisherman through their Good Work Good Pay (GWGP) program. The Center for Wellness and Mental Health will have increased hours of operation and will attempt to hire local shrimpers and/or their spouses as community outreach workers and peer counselors. The GWGP program will hire, train and pay livable, union-level wages with full benefits to local fishermen affected by the oil spill (as well as other local under- and unemployed individuals and war veterans.)
FROM THE SITE:
St. Bernard Project's Center for Wellness and Mental Health
Three years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita rendered uninhabitable all 27,000 homes in St. Bernard Parish, less than 50% of the population has returned. Even for those who have returned, many are not yet living in their homes. Nearly 2,000 families still reside in FEMA trailers, and thousands of others live in FEMA/DHS supported housing (ending in March 2009) or in over-crowded family houses. In St. Bernard nearly 75% of the 25,000 homeowners did not have adequate insurance. These homeowners, following the recommendations outlined by FEMA’s flood maps, did not purchase flood insurance because they were told that their communities were not at risk of flooding.
Nearly two years after the federal government initiated its Road Home program to help families return and rebuild, an unacceptable number of homeowners are still waiting for assistance. According to a report published by the Brookings Institution in August 2008, only 70% of all qualified applicants for federal Road Home assistance have received funding through the program. To further compound the problems with the Road Home program, an independent study determined that the majority of Road Home recipients did not receive sufficient funds to rebuild. The small size and slow pace of the grants being awarded has resulted in an unnecessarily slow recovery for residents in St. Bernard Parish.
St. Bernard Project's Rebuilding Program is succeeding where others have failed. Our program serves financially challenged clients in three categories: elderly, disabled, and families with small children. By utilizing volunteer labor, skilled supervisors and affordable building supplies, we are able to return clients to their homes by completing volunteer labor in just 12 weeks. The cost to the Project is approximately $12,000 per home. To date the Rebuilding Program has completely rebuilt 167 families’ homes. We are currently at work on more than 30 damaged homes.
In order to further contribute to the health and stability of the area, SBP developed a partnership with LSU to open the Center for Wellness and Mental (CMWH). The CWMH will be offered from a private section of the St. Bernard Project’s office, a place that residents have visited to access our Rebuilding Program and in which they have developed strong institutional thrust. By operating the CWMH under the same roof as the Rebuilding Program, residents will benefit from a one-stop shopping model that will minimize the stigma that is often associated with accessing mental health services.
The CWMH will begin offering services January 19, 2009 for participants in the St. Bernard Project and other St. Bernard residents including children, adolescents, adults and families. The CMWH will offer both group and individual services including The Welcome Home Program, which will be available to all new participants/families of the St. Bernard Project as they begin the rebuilding process to encourage and support the “psychological rebuilding” that optimally should accompany the structural rebuilding of homes.
=======================================
The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We can?t operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required ? we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie@stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet. -> FROM THE UNITED WAY SITE 6/10:
United Way Impact Partners At Work
St. Bernard Project, a United Way partner agency, is responding to the spill by expanding their mental health clinic to Lower St. Bernard and Plaquemines and creating jobs for fisherman through their Good Work Good Pay (GWGP) program. The Center for Wellness and Mental Health will have increased hours of operation and will attempt to hire local shrimpers and/or their spouses as community outreach workers and peer counselors. The GWGP program will hire, train and pay livable, union-level wages with full benefits to local fishermen affected by the oil spill (as well as other local under- and unemployed individuals and war veterans.)
FROM THE SITE:
St. Bernard Project's Center for Wellness and Mental Health
Three years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita rendered uninhabitable all 27,000 homes in St. Bernard Parish, less than 50% of the population has returned. Even for those who have returned, many are not yet living in their homes. Nearly 2,000 families still reside in FEMA trailers, and thousands of others live in FEMA/DHS supported housing (ending in March 2009) or in over-crowded family houses. In St. Bernard nearly 75% of the 25,000 homeowners did not have adequate insurance. These homeowners, following the recommendations outlined by FEMA’s flood maps, did not purchase flood insurance because they were told that their communities were not at risk of flooding.
Nearly two years after the federal government initiated its Road Home program to help families return and rebuild, an unacceptable number of homeowners are still waiting for assistance. According to a report published by the Brookings Institution in August 2008, only 70% of all qualified applicants for federal Road Home assistance have received funding through the program. To further compound the problems with the Road Home program, an independent study determined that the majority of Road Home recipients did not receive sufficient funds to rebuild. The small size and slow pace of the grants being awarded has resulted in an unnecessarily slow recovery for residents in St. Bernard Parish.
St. Bernard Project's Rebuilding Program is succeeding where others have failed. Our program serves financially challenged clients in three categories: elderly, disabled, and families with small children. By utilizing volunteer labor, skilled supervisors and affordable building supplies, we are able to return clients to their homes by completing volunteer labor in just 12 weeks. The cost to the Project is approximately $12,000 per home. To date the Rebuilding Program has completely rebuilt 167 families’ homes. We are currently at work on more than 30 damaged homes.
In order to further contribute to the health and stability of the area, SBP developed a partnership with LSU to open the Center for Wellness and Mental (CMWH). The CWMH will be offered from a private section of the St. Bernard Project’s office, a place that residents have visited to access our Rebuilding Program and in which they have developed strong institutional thrust. By operating the CWMH under the same roof as the Rebuilding Program, residents will benefit from a one-stop shopping model that will minimize the stigma that is often associated with accessing mental health services.
The CWMH will begin offering services January 19, 2009 for participants in the St. Bernard Project and other St. Bernard residents including children, adolescents, adults and families. The CMWH will offer both group and individual services including The Welcome Home Program, which will be available to all new participants/families of the St. Bernard Project as they begin the rebuilding process to encourage and support the “psychological rebuilding” that optimally should accompany the structural rebuilding of homes.
St. Bernard Project's Good Work Good Pay Program PDF Print E-mail
SBP recognizes the immense value of our 20,000+ volunteers. The work they have done in the past and will continue to do in the future is a vital component of our mission. However, we realize that a disaster relief model relying solely on volunteers -- and a disaster relief model that takes four and a half years (and counting) to return families to their homes can become even more effective. SBP believes it has found an innovative and replicable solution.
Our newest program, the Good Work Good Pay (GWGP) Program, will hire returned war veterans and other local under and unemployed individuals to build and rebuild affordable housing units. We will pay our new employees livable, union-level wages with full benefits. This will give us the skilled and consistent workforce needed to not only rebuild homes more efficiently for those who owned their homes before Hurricane Katrina, but also to create brand new affordable housing for our lowest income clients.
GWGP will not replace the volunteer-driven rebuilding model that is so essential to our mission but, rather, will work in tandem with it. By using the two programs to complement each other, SBP will be able to keep costs low while substantially increasing the number of units it can complete in a single year. In 2009, SBP was able to return 100 families home. In GWGP's first year, we anticipate completing a minimum of 186 homes. In that same first year, SBP will create over 30 living wage-paying jobs for veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Executive Director, Zack Rosenburg, explains how SBP arrived at this innovative solution: “In New Orleans there is an unmet demand for 20,019 affordable housing units and at the same time, we have an unemployment crisis which is amplified in the case of veterans. One in nine veterans are currently unemployed. Our country’s returned veterans are not just statistics – they are people who have faced great danger and put themselves at great risk during their tours of duty. This is a solvable problem and we intend to solve it.”
Veterans face a variety of challenges when trying to reenter the workforce upon returning home. Robert Pearson, 23 years of age and a former paratrooper explains, “A job counselor once told me that some employers consider a military record ‘almost like having a felony’ because of the negative, unstable emotional health issues associated with armed service.”
While many employers avoid hiring veterans, SBP sees this as an incredible opportunity. A recent study showed that 88% of veterans surveyed said that disaster relief is something they, personally, consider to be “very important” as they move forward in their civilian lives.
“True, some may suffer from post traumatic stress disorder,” admits SBP’s Director of Construction and himself a veteran, Jim MacQueen. “But veterans are mature, accustomed to following directions, understand the advantages of teamwork, are problem solvers and I am so excited to begin working with them. It will do great things for our organization.”
Zack believes SBP is creating a program that can be replicated around the country. “While our city had the misfortune of Katrina, cities across the United States are struggling with the same blighted properties, high unemployment rate, and lack of affordable housing as New Orleans. We believe we are creating a model for recovery that will not only help New Orleans and other natural disaster-affected areas, but will also help any city suffering from the deterioration that accompanies economic disaster.”
=======================================
The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We can?t operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required ? we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie @stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet.
(show/hide changes)Mon Jun 21 13:39:30 +0000 2010 by LTel:notes: FROM THE UNITED WAY SITE 6/10:
United Way Impact Partners At Work
St. Bernard Project, a United Way partner agency, is responding to the spill by expanding their mental health clinic to Lower St. Bernard and Plaquemines and creating jobs for fisherman through their Good Work Good Pay (GWGP) program. The Center for Wellness and Mental Health will have increased hours of operation and will attempt to hire local shrimpers and/or their spouses as community outreach workers and peer counselors. The GWGP program will hire, train and pay livable, union-level wages with full benefits to local fishermen affected by the oil spill (as well as other local under- and unemployed individuals and war veterans.)
-----------------------------------------------
FROM CRAIGSLIST 9/1/08:
The residents of southeast Louisiana need your help! The St. Bernard Project - a non-profit organization - has rebuilt 140 homes since Hurricane Katrina and is prepared to respond to the needs post-Gustav. On average, it takes us 10-12 weeks and $12,000 worth of building supplies to rebuild a gutted home. We have rebuilt the 145 homes with the support of more than 8,000 volunteers and more than 2,500 donors.
Post-Gustav, the needs will be even greater.
Please visit our website - www.stbernardproject.org - and consider volunteering or donating.
Please email volunteer@stbernardproject.org to sign up to volunteer. We anticipate being back in full operation on Monday, September 8.
===============================================================================
The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We can?t operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required ? we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie@stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet. -> FROM THE UNITED WAY SITE 6/10:
United Way Impact Partners At Work
St. Bernard Project, a United Way partner agency, is responding to the spill by expanding their mental health clinic to Lower St. Bernard and Plaquemines and creating jobs for fisherman through their Good Work Good Pay (GWGP) program. The Center for Wellness and Mental Health will have increased hours of operation and will attempt to hire local shrimpers and/or their spouses as community outreach workers and peer counselors. The GWGP program will hire, train and pay livable, union-level wages with full benefits to local fishermen affected by the oil spill (as well as other local under- and unemployed individuals and war veterans.)
FROM THE SITE:
St. Bernard Project's Center for Wellness and Mental Health
Three years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita rendered uninhabitable all 27,000 homes in St. Bernard Parish, less than 50% of the population has returned. Even for those who have returned, many are not yet living in their homes. Nearly 2,000 families still reside in FEMA trailers, and thousands of others live in FEMA/DHS supported housing (ending in March 2009) or in over-crowded family houses. In St. Bernard nearly 75% of the 25,000 homeowners did not have adequate insurance. These homeowners, following the recommendations outlined by FEMA’s flood maps, did not purchase flood insurance because they were told that their communities were not at risk of flooding.
Nearly two years after the federal government initiated its Road Home program to help families return and rebuild, an unacceptable number of homeowners are still waiting for assistance. According to a report published by the Brookings Institution in August 2008, only 70% of all qualified applicants for federal Road Home assistance have received funding through the program. To further compound the problems with the Road Home program, an independent study determined that the majority of Road Home recipients did not receive sufficient funds to rebuild. The small size and slow pace of the grants being awarded has resulted in an unnecessarily slow recovery for residents in St. Bernard Parish.
St. Bernard Project's Rebuilding Program is succeeding where others have failed. Our program serves financially challenged clients in three categories: elderly, disabled, and families with small children. By utilizing volunteer labor, skilled supervisors and affordable building supplies, we are able to return clients to their homes by completing volunteer labor in just 12 weeks. The cost to the Project is approximately $12,000 per home. To date the Rebuilding Program has completely rebuilt 167 families’ homes. We are currently at work on more than 30 damaged homes.
In order to further contribute to the health and stability of the area, SBP developed a partnership with LSU to open the Center for Wellness and Mental (CMWH). The CWMH will be offered from a private section of the St. Bernard Project’s office, a place that residents have visited to access our Rebuilding Program and in which they have developed strong institutional thrust. By operating the CWMH under the same roof as the Rebuilding Program, residents will benefit from a one-stop shopping model that will minimize the stigma that is often associated with accessing mental health services.
The CWMH will begin offering services January 19, 2009 for participants in the St. Bernard Project and other St. Bernard residents including children, adolescents, adults and families. The CMWH will offer both group and individual services including The Welcome Home Program, which will be available to all new participants/families of the St. Bernard Project as they begin the rebuilding process to encourage and support the “psychological rebuilding” that optimally should accompany the structural rebuilding of homes.
=======================================
The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We can?t operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required ? we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie@stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet.
cat_notes: 11/05: Terra added new item: "Testamonies" so we find where cool feedback from "users" of these group's services... !
11/05: Rita from UPS said that this group helped her IMMENSELY! She's unbelievably appreciative of what they did for her. It took her 3 years to rebuild her house, and they were there for her. The volunteers were wonderful! She's excited about the dbase and plans to send the link to everyone she knows especially to those in the Ike areas that are STILL struggling. T
Message text written by "Deb Dormitzer"
>Terra,
I met the founder of the St. Bernard Project when I was in New Orleans. I don't know a lot about his group, but they don't seem to be a religious organization. He was a lawyer in DC who actually closed his practice so he could move to New Orleans and start this group. They've done a lot of building. The website is: http://www.stbernardproject.org
Debbie -> 6/21/10 LTel removed old notes:
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FROM CRAIGSLIST 9/1/08:
The residents of southeast Louisiana need your help! The St. Bernard Project - a non-profit organization - has rebuilt 140 homes since Hurricane Katrina and is prepared to respond to the needs post-Gustav. On average, it takes us 10-12 weeks and $12,000 worth of building supplies to rebuild a gutted home. We have rebuilt the 145 homes with the support of more than 8,000 volunteers and more than 2,500 donors.
Post-Gustav, the needs will be even greater.
Please visit our website - www.stbernardproject.org - and consider volunteering or donating.
Please email volunteer @stbernardproject.org to sign up to volunteer. We anticipate being back in full operation on Monday, September 8.
=================================
11/05: Terra added new item: "Testamonies" so we find where cool feedback from "users" of these group's services... !
11/05: Rita from UPS said that this group helped her IMMENSELY! She's unbelievably appreciative of what they did for her. It took her 3 years to rebuild her house, and they were there for her. The volunteers were wonderful! She's excited about the dbase and plans to send the link to everyone she knows especially to those in the Ike areas that are STILL struggling. T
Message text written by "Deb Dormitzer"
>Terra,
I met the founder of the St. Bernard Project when I was in New Orleans. I don't know a lot about his group, but they don't seem to be a religious organization. He was a lawyer in DC who actually closed his practice so he could move to New Orleans and start this group. They've done a lot of building. The website is: http://www.stbernardproject.org
Debbie
(show/hide changes)Mon Jun 21 13:35:50 +0000 2010 by LTel:added corrected website url/avails/notes
name: St. Bernard Project, The -> St. Bernard Project
website: http://www.stbernardproject.org/index.html -> http://www.stbernardproject.org/v158/
areas_served: -> St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
(show/hide changes)Mon Jun 21 13:28:59 +0000 2010 by LTel:notes: FROM CRAIGSLIST 9/1/08:
The residents of southeast Louisiana need your help! The St. Bernard Project - a non-profit organization - has rebuilt 140 homes since Hurricane Katrina and is prepared to respond to the needs post-Gustav. On average, it takes us 10-12 weeks and $12,000 worth of building supplies to rebuild a gutted home. We have rebuilt the 145 homes with the support of more than 8,000 volunteers and more than 2,500 donors.
Post-Gustav, the needs will be even greater.
Please visit our website - www.stbernardproject.org - and consider volunteering or donating.
Please email volunteer@stbernardproject.org to sign up to volunteer. We anticipate being back in full operation on Monday, September 8.
===============================================================================
The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We can?t operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required ? we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie@stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet. -> FROM THE UNITED WAY SITE 6/10:
United Way Impact Partners At Work
St. Bernard Project, a United Way partner agency, is responding to the spill by expanding their mental health clinic to Lower St. Bernard and Plaquemines and creating jobs for fisherman through their Good Work Good Pay (GWGP) program. The Center for Wellness and Mental Health will have increased hours of operation and will attempt to hire local shrimpers and/or their spouses as community outreach workers and peer counselors. The GWGP program will hire, train and pay livable, union-level wages with full benefits to local fishermen affected by the oil spill (as well as other local under- and unemployed individuals and war veterans.)
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FROM CRAIGSLIST 9/1/08:
The residents of southeast Louisiana need your help! The St. Bernard Project - a non-profit organization - has rebuilt 140 homes since Hurricane Katrina and is prepared to respond to the needs post-Gustav. On average, it takes us 10-12 weeks and $12,000 worth of building supplies to rebuild a gutted home. We have rebuilt the 145 homes with the support of more than 8,000 volunteers and more than 2,500 donors.
Post-Gustav, the needs will be even greater.
Please visit our website - www.stbernardproject.org - and consider volunteering or donating.
Please email volunteer@stbernardproject.org to sign up to volunteer. We anticipate being back in full operation on Monday, September 8.
===============================================================================
The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We can?t operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required ? we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie@stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet.
(show/hide changes)Wed Nov 05 20:22:10 +0000 2008 by tfri:cat_notes: 11/05: Rita from UPS said that this group helped her IMMENSELY! She's unbelievably appreciative of what they did for her. It took her 3 years to rebuild her house, and they were there for her. The volunteers were wonderful! She's excited about the dbase and plans to send the link to everyone she knows especially to those in the Ike areas that are STILL struggling. T
Message text written by "Deb Dormitzer"
>Terra,
I met the founder of the St. Bernard Project when I was in New Orleans. I don't know a lot about his group, but they don't seem to be a religious organization. He was a lawyer in DC who actually closed his practice so he could move to New Orleans and start this group. They've done a lot of building. The website is: http://www.stbernardproject.org
Debbie -> 11/05: Terra added new item: "Testamonies" so we find where cool feedback from "users" of these group's services... !
11/05: Rita from UPS said that this group helped her IMMENSELY! She's unbelievably appreciative of what they did for her. It took her 3 years to rebuild her house, and they were there for her. The volunteers were wonderful! She's excited about the dbase and plans to send the link to everyone she knows especially to those in the Ike areas that are STILL struggling. T
Message text written by "Deb Dormitzer"
>Terra,
I met the founder of the St. Bernard Project when I was in New Orleans. I don't know a lot about his group, but they don't seem to be a religious organization. He was a lawyer in DC who actually closed his practice so he could move to New Orleans and start this group. They've done a lot of building. The website is: http://www.stbernardproject.org
Debbie
(show/hide changes)Wed Nov 05 20:13:32 +0000 2008 by tfri:Terra spoke to Rita and input her comments to the CAT box.
Web site
Craiglist/Added: Notes, Needs, corrected facility name
Updated needs, corrected org
Added avails, notes
Updated Region
(show/hide changes)Wed Nov 05 20:12:50 +0000 2008 by tfri:cat_notes: Message text written by "Deb Dormitzer"
>Terra,
I met the founder of the St. Bernard Project when I was in New Orleans. I don't know a lot about his group, but they don't seem to be a religious organization. He was a lawyer in DC who actually closed his practice so he could move to New Orleans and start this group. They've done a lot of building. The website is: http://www.stbernardproject.org
Debbie -> 11/05: Rita from UPS said that this group helped her IMMENSELY! She's unbelievably appreciative of what they did for her. It took her 3 years to rebuild her house, and they were there for her. The volunteers were wonderful! She's excited about the dbase and plans to send the link to everyone she knows especially to those in the Ike areas that are STILL struggling. T
Message text written by "Deb Dormitzer"
>Terra,
I met the founder of the St. Bernard Project when I was in New Orleans. I don't know a lot about his group, but they don't seem to be a religious organization. He was a lawyer in DC who actually closed his practice so he could move to New Orleans and start this group. They've done a lot of building. The website is: http://www.stbernardproject.org
Debbie
(show/hide changes)Mon Sep 15 06:35:13 +0000 2008 by CShe:Web site
Craiglist/Added: Notes, Needs, corrected facility name
Updated needs, corrected org
Added avails, notes
Updated Region
(show/hide changes)Mon Sep 15 06:33:19 +0000 2008 by CShe:region: -> Gulf
(show/hide changes)Fri Sep 05 15:34:25 +0000 2008 by LTel:Web site
Craiglist/Added: Notes, Needs, corrected facility name
Updated needs, corrected org
Added avails, notes
(show/hide changes)Fri Sep 05 15:32:41 +0000 2008 by LTel:notes: The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We can?t operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required ? we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie@stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet. -> FROM CRAIGSLIST 9/1/08:
The residents of southeast Louisiana need your help! The St. Bernard Project - a non-profit organization - has rebuilt 140 homes since Hurricane Katrina and is prepared to respond to the needs post-Gustav. On average, it takes us 10-12 weeks and $12,000 worth of building supplies to rebuild a gutted home. We have rebuilt the 145 homes with the support of more than 8,000 volunteers and more than 2,500 donors.
Post-Gustav, the needs will be even greater.
Please visit our website - www.stbernardproject.org - and consider volunteering or donating.
Please email volunteer@stbernardproject.org to sign up to volunteer. We anticipate being back in full operation on Monday, September 8.
===============================================================================
The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We can?t operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required ? we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie@stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet.
(show/hide changes)Fri Jun 06 13:55:43 +0000 2008 by LTel:Web site
Craiglist/Added: Notes, Needs, corrected facility name
Updated needs, corrected org
organization: Non-Profit -> Non-Profit, Disaster Recovery
(show/hide changes)Wed May 07 17:27:10 +0000 2008 by LTel:notes: Women's Build Week October 8-13, 2007
This fall the St. Bernard Project is hosting the 1st Annual
Women?s Build Week. Each day over 100 women volunteers from
around the country will rebuild families' that Hurricane
Katrina rendered uninhabitable. In addition, the week will
honor and celebrate the ciritical role women leaders are
playing in rebuilding the Greater New Orleans Area.
------------------------------------------------------
The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We can?t operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required ? we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie@stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet. -> The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We can?t operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required ? we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie@stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet.
(show/hide changes)Mon Feb 18 00:11:29 +0000 2008 by tfri:notes: Women's Build Week October 8-13, 2007
This fall the St. Bernard Project is hosting the 1st Annual
Womens Build Week. Each day over 100 women volunteers from
around the country will rebuild families' that Hurricane
Katrina rendered uninhabitable. In addition, the week will
honor and celebrate the ciritical role women leaders are
playing in rebuilding the Greater New Orleans Area.
------------------------------------------------------
The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We cant operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie@stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet. -> Women's Build Week October 8-13, 2007
This fall the St. Bernard Project is hosting the 1st Annual
Women?s Build Week. Each day over 100 women volunteers from
around the country will rebuild families' that Hurricane
Katrina rendered uninhabitable. In addition, the week will
honor and celebrate the ciritical role women leaders are
playing in rebuilding the Greater New Orleans Area.
------------------------------------------------------
The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We can?t operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required ? we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie@stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet.
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cat_notes: -> Message text written by "Deb Dormitzer"
>Terra,
I met the founder of the St. Bernard Project when I was in New Orleans. I don't know a lot about his group, but they don't seem to be a religious organization. He was a lawyer in DC who actually closed his practice so he could move to New Orleans and start this group. They've done a lot of building. The website is: http://www.stbernardproject.org
Debbie
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(show/hide changes)Mon Jul 16 16:35:38 +0000 2007 by DNug:parish: St. Bernard Parish -> St. Bernard
(show/hide changes)Mon Jul 16 16:33:57 +0000 2007 by DNug:parish: St. Bernard Parish -> St. Bernard Parish
(show/hide changes)Wed Jul 04 23:57:27 +0000 2007 by LTel:notes: The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We cant operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie@stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet. -> Women's Build Week October 8-13, 2007
This fall the St. Bernard Project is hosting the 1st Annual
Womens Build Week. Each day over 100 women volunteers from
around the country will rebuild families' that Hurricane
Katrina rendered uninhabitable. In addition, the week will
honor and celebrate the ciritical role women leaders are
playing in rebuilding the Greater New Orleans Area.
------------------------------------------------------
The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We cant operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie@stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet.
(show/hide changes)Wed Jul 04 23:25:10 +0000 2007 by LTel:facility_type: Info/Hotline -> Walk-in Resource
(show/hide changes)Wed Jul 04 23:23:55 +0000 2007 by LTel:Web site
Craiglist/Added: Notes, Needs, corrected facility name
notes: The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer use
space for residents whose community centers have disappeared at our
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We cant operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie@stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet. -> The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer
use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared.
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We cant operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie@stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet.
(show/hide changes)Wed Jul 04 23:22:45 +0000 2007 by LTel:notes: The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer use
space for residents whose community centers have disappeared at our. -> The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer use
space for residents whose community centers have disappeared at our
How You Can Help
Volunteer! We cant operate without volunteers to assist in
rebuilding these homes. There is no experience required we
will teach you everything you need to know!
To sign up, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Janie Strachan
at janie@stbernardproject.org or (504) 261 0345. If space is
available, please download and read the Volunteer Arrival Packet.
(show/hide changes)Wed Jul 04 23:20:53 +0000 2007 by LTel:Web site
Craiglist/Added: Needs, corrected facility name
name: The St. Bernard Project -> St. Bernard Project, The
notes: The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer use space for residents whose community centers have disappeared at our. -> The St. Bernard Project is a grassroots, nonprofit rebuild
organization that provides direct rebuilding, financial and
community support to families in St. Bernard Parish, La. who
were displaced and devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Our mission is to break down barriers that hinder families from
returning to their homes and community.
The St. Bernard Project offers the following services to
residents of St. Bernard Parish:
Support A Family Network: Provide building supplies (mainly
drywall, roofing and electrical materials) and/or volunteer
assistance to help families rebuild their homes.
Tool Co-op: Loan tools and equipment to residents.
Community Center: Provide vital meeting, leisure and computer use
space for residents whose community centers have disappeared at our.
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