Crescent City Art Project
This extraordinary effort has produced more than a thousand pieces of vibrant art, including exterior murals, interior paintings,sidewalk murals and mosaic pieces, currently on display at Recovery School District campuses around New Orleans. The project’s mission is to transform school landscapes from mundane environments to ones of color, art and education by way of engaging individuals in service.
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CCAP Summer Newsletter
Copeline offers crisis intervention and support
The Copeline is a 24 hour services operated by VIA LINK, a United Way agency, provides crisis and suicide counseling and connects people to community resources that help them to resolve life's biggest challenges. Call center counselors are available 24 hours a day to provide crisis counseling and information and referral to programs to help with needs such as food, shelter, medical care, financial assistants, counseling programs, substance abuse treatment, childcare, etc. Counselors are ready to assist you.
The helpline number is 1-800-749-2673
VIA LINK also maintains the community resource database available online and in printed form and operates the homeless management information system for UNITY for the Homeless.
| Yes We Care! is a movement bringing together religious leaders, community leaders, educators, students, business leaders, politicians and police officers to seek solutions to the crime and violence facing New Orleans. What: Yes We Care event
When: Saturday, March 28, 2009 – 10:00 am
Where: Armstrong Park
Why: The Yes We Care Movement aims to RESTORE pride; to REAFFIRM the value of life and to RECLAIM detached and disenfranchised children, families and neighbors.
Learn more: www.yeswecareno.com |
From the Boardroom to the Classroom: Principal for a Day Program Promotes Business Community’s Involvement in Schools
If you walked into a New Orleans public school on Friday, November 13, 2009, you may have been greeted by a new “principal, ” someone newly exposed to today’s education landscape. As part of Hands On New Orleans’ 1st “Principal for a Day” program, 20 business and opinion leaders hung up their executive hats to assume the role of public school principals at 20 schools.
Led by Hands On New Orleans and sponsored by Merrill Lynch, and presented in partnership with the Recovery School District of New Orleans, Principal for a Day offered New Orleans’ business and community leaders an opportunity to directly impact the educational outcomes of the city’s school-aged children. Executives learn first-hand the “business” of running a school and the trials and triumphs that principals face on a daily basis.
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2008 Event photos and information
Community Resources and Information
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Community Health Clinics
The Interim LSU Public Hospital is opening community health clinics throughout New Orleans. These clinics, several of which are located on RSD school campuses, offer comprehensive primary health care and access to specialty care, preventing minor illness from becoming major.
Community Health Clinic Brochure
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RSD Family Community Resource Centers
Parents, family and community members are invited to visit any Family Resource Center. The center is staffed with helpful coordinators that provide a warm reception, great information and helpful connections to the school and community.
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RSD staff members dished up hot meals for New Orleanians
returning to the city after Hurricane Gustav.