You can reach us at:
935 Gravier Street, Suite 720
New Orleans, LA 70112
504-523-7325
504-595-3158 (Fax)
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Easterseals Louisiana has a longstanding tradition of providing services to some of Louisiana’s most vulnerable citizens. From the 1950s through to the present, Easterseals has worked with people with developmental, intellectual, and physical disabilities. The advent of the Americans with Disabilities Act allowed Easterseals, both nationally and in Louisiana, the ability to broaden its scope of populations to work with. It was recognized that people with behavioral health challenges are also some of our most vulnerable citizens, so Easterseals felt that it was in keeping with tradition to extend services to people with chronic mental health issues.
Beginning in 2008, Easterseals began providing services to the homeless population in Shreveport. In 2009, we began a crisis response and intervention programs.
Over the course of subsequent years, Easterseals has developed a nice profile of mental health services in the Shreveport and Monroe areas. Newer programs are in New Orleans, and the Florida Parishes area. A thread that runs through all our mental health programming is our longstanding ability to provide high quality complex care management services for people most in need.
Current behavioral health programming includes:
Case Management: Complex care coordination for people with chronic mental health issues.
Exit 318 – Re-Entry: Via a partnership with Goodwill Industries, we provide case management and housing assistance for people exiting the penal system. Goodwill provides employment readiness and placement services.
Crisis Counseling: We provide information, resources, and crisis counseling to people in need of relief of behavioral health problems exacerbated by COVID-19.
Housing Continuum: Easterseals has an array of services that fit within the continuum of housing-based services that exists in the Region 7 area. This array includes:
Exit 318 – Re-Entry: Via a partnership with Goodwill Industries, we provide case management and housing assistance for people exiting the penal system. Goodwill provides employment readiness and placement services.
Case Management: Complex care coordination for people with chronic mental health issues.
PEER Center: A drop-in day program that works with people with chronic mental health issues. Psychosocial skills building and case management services are provided, as well as basics such as a place to shower/clean-up, eat, etc.
Housing Continuum: Easterseals has an array of services that fit within the continuum of housing-based services that exists in the Region 8 area. This array includes:
Rapid Re-Housing: We provide time-limited (up to 24 months) case management and rental assistance to people with mental health conditions who are episodically or chronically homeless. We utilize a Housing First approach, which dictates that housing is quickly provided without pre-conditions (i.e. poor credit, criminal record, employment, etc.) placed on the clients.
Mental Health Case Management: Complex care coordination for people with chronic mental health issues, with a goal to maintain contact with service recipients for up to a year via wellness checks in an effort to help prevent a highly vulnerable population from “falling through the cracks” over time. This program is a partnership with the Florida Parishes Human Services Authority to provide this service in 3 of their mental health clinics in the Florida Parishes area.
