Immigration and Refugee Services
Refugee Health Screening

Provides TB skin tests and immunization updates to newly-arrived refugees.

Susan Weishar, Administrator
1000 Howard Avenue, Suite 1000
New Orleans, LA 70113-1942
Phone: 523-3755, ext. 2606
FAX: 523-6962
smweishar@archdiocese-no.org


Legal/Resettlement Services

Offers resettlement services to newly-arrived refugees and provides low-cost immigration-related legal services to clients.

Susan Weishar, Administrator
1000 Howard Avenue, Suite 1000
New Orleans, LA 70113-1942
Phone: 523-3755, ext. 2606
FAX: 523-6962
smweishar@archdiocese-no.org


Social Services

Offers social services to refugees in Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, and Plaquemines parishes. It provides employment counseling / placement, social adjustment services, and ESL classes. The Citizenship Program provides literacy classes for non-literate refugees and immigrants, assistance in completing the Naturalization Application, and serves as a Citizenship Resource Center. The Vietnamese Youth Services provides recreation, life planning, and after-school tutoring services to at-risk Vietnamese teens in the Versailles Gardens community of eastern New Orleans. The Immigrant Domestic Violence Prevention/Outreach program provides outreach, education, and referral services to immigrants regarding domestic violence.

Susan Weishar, Administrator
1000 Howard Avenue, Suite 1000
New Orleans, LA 70113-1942
Phone: 523-3755, ext. 2606
FAX: 523-6962
smweishar@archdiocese-no.org


ESL Program

Provides ESL classes supported by computer-assisted language learning laboratories.

Susan Weishar, Administrator
Contact: Paulina DeSantis, Education Coordinator

1000 Howard Avenue, Suite 1000
New Orleans, LA 70113-1942
Phone: 523-3755, ext. 2606 (SW), ext. 2617 (PD)
FAX: 523-6962
smweishar@archdiocese-no.org
pldesantis@archdiocese-no.org

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1000 Howard Ave.
Suite 1000
New Orleans, LA 70113-1942 USA
Email: ccano@archdiocese-no.org
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Fax: (504) 523-2789


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