Our Three Year Plan

After Hurricane Katrina, we believed that it was crucial to have a plan of action. While we did not know what the future of the city would hold, we knew that we wanted to make a meaningful impact in helping people rebuild their lives.

We identified five strategic areas we knew would be key in the recovery: Response & Recovery, Housing, Healthcare, Education and Economic Development. We conceived a three-year plan and committed to work to make a positive difference in each of these areas.

Now, three years later, we reflect on the many lives we have affected with your help.

Response & Recovery

Our goal was to provide 20,000 people with case management. Since Hurricane Katrina, we have provided case management to 54,660 people.

We also wanted to give as much as $7 million dollars in direct assistance to those needy families who needed it most. Since Hurricane Katrina, we have given $15,035,538 to people to rebuild their lives.

Housing

We set ambitious goals to help New Orleanians to get back into their homes. In conjunction with our partners, we planned to:

Repair and rebuild 2,400 homes and apartments, develop and build 1,200 new homes and develop and build 3,400 new apartments.

We have gutted 1,925 homes. We have rebuilt 113 homes, with 717 more homes under construction. We are in the process of developing 1,524 homes. We have 1,450 homes in pre-development.

We also sought to provide housing with healthcare and support services to 2,500 people with special needs. We have sheltered 4,198 clients who live with special needs: developmentally disabled children and adults; abused; neglected and emotionally disturbed children; battered women; homeless women, children and families; chronically mentally ill; and people living with AIDS.

Healthcare

In the realm of nutrition, we aimed to supply 177,000,000 pounds of food to families and agencies that feed the hungry across our metro region and state. In the three years since Hurricane Katrina, we nearly met that goal by distributing 156,489,689 pounds of food to the hungry and agencies that feed the hungry.

We also wanted to feed a minimum of 960,000 people. Since Hurricane Katrina, we have provided 61,715,858 meals to the hungry.

Mental healthcare has been a challenge to our community since Hurricane Katrina. Our goal was to provide crisis intervention and counseling to 200,000 people. We have been able to provide these services to 864,547* people.

We wanted to provide clinical counseling to 6,000 individuals. We have served 6,491 people with clinical counseling since Hurricane Katrina.

In Catholic schools, we aimed to provide counseling to 20,000 children, parents and faculty. We have provided counseling services to 4,787 children, parents and faculty since Hurricane Katrina.

Our goal was to provide medical care to 20,780 people. We have been able serve 4,483 people with medical services.

Education

In the educational sphere, we sought to provide early childhood education to 1,800 children. Three years after Katrina, we have educated 1,063 children through our early childhood education programs.

In addition to early childhood education, we also provide after-school and summer

education to older children. Our goal was to serve 4,600 children through these programs. We provided these services for 3,691 children.

We wanted to provide life skills and adult education services to 1,700 teens and young adults. Since Katrina, we have served 1,560 teens and young adults in this way.

Economic Development

Our goal was to provide job training, placement and development for 3,000 individuals. We have given 3,842 people job training, placement and development since Hurricane Katrina.