SPPA meeting Friday, June 17, 2016 at 10:00 AM
June 15, 2016
SPPA meeting will be held as follows: Friday, June 17, 2016 10:00 to 11:00 AM UNITY of Greater New Orleans 2475 Canal Street First Floor Annex New Orleans, LA 70119...
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Team Leads Needed for Voices of Youth Count, June 23, 2016
June 15, 2016
Voices of Youth Count is a youth-centered national initiative that will expand our knowledge of the experience of unaccompanied homeless and runaway youth so we can better advocate for services, target resources, and work to end youth homelessness. On June 23, Voices of Youth Count will...
Voices of Youth Count (VoYC)
May 13, 2016
Please join UNITY of Greater New Orleans for our kick-off planning meeting for the Orleans Parish Voices of Youth Count on May 17, 2016. The Orleans Parish community has agreed to be one of the 22 communities actively partnering in the Voices of Youth Count...
SPPA Meeting Notice
May 13, 2016
SPPA meeting will be held as follows: Friday, May 20, 2016 10:00 to 11:00 AM UNITY of Greater New Orleans 2475 Canal Street First Floor Annex New Orleans, LA 70119...
A Stable Home for the First Time in Their Lives
April 30, 2016
A few months ago, because of your support, this young homeless mother and her two daughters moved into their own apartment. The route that KyShanaeh Johnson, 23, followed into homelessness is fairly typical. She had lost her steady job as a front-desk clerk at a hotel...
NOLA.com: New Orleans aims to end homelessness of families, disabled, youth
April 30, 2016
Two years ago, New Orleans became the first U.S. city effectively to end homelessness among military veterans, drawing the praise of Michelle Obama, who termed it a "call to action to our entire country." Now, advocates want to use those same strategies to reduce or...
A Bold Plan of Action to Sharply Reduce Homelessness by Taking Evidence-Based Practices to Scale
April 30, 2016
On Jan. 2, 2015, in response to First Lady Michelle Obama’s Mayors Challenge to End Veteran Homelessness, the UNITY Homeless Continuum of Care of more than 60 agencies partnered with New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu to make New Orleans the first city to effectively...
Home at Last – Spring 2016
April 22, 2016
The UNITY collaborative has driven down homelessness by 85 percent since Katrina by housing families like the Newtons, who sought UNITY’s help after elderly relatives died in the storm, leaving the young family with no one to turn to. When his family became homeless, Dyrick Newton,...
SPPA April Meeting Cancelled
April 13, 2016
The April Service Providers and Professionals Association Meeting is cancelled. We encourage everyone to attend UNITY’s 24th Annual Meeting & Luncheon on April 25 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Lakeview Christian Center....
Help House the Homeless!
January 26, 2016
Have some gently used household goods laying around the house? Please bring them to Point-In-Time to donate to UNITY clients moving into their own homes from the streets! We will have boxes to collect basic essentials for our clients. Don’t have anything to donate or don’t have...