YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!
Volunteers Extended and Expanded Possibilities for Katrina Survivors in this short term project for long term recovery between now and September 2007 by...
- Assisting Long Term Recovery Specialist
- Lending support to Katrina survivors
- Researching Resources
- Prodiving extra hands and hearts
BUILDING CAPACITY
The Salvation Army has committed to a four-to-one match of volunteers to paid staff. The intent of this volunteer match requirement is to help meet the challenge of addressing Katrina survivor needs, and to build the capacity of all our agencies to roll out fully trained and equipped volunteers for future disasters.
Volunteers are also needed to help develop and identify additional resources.
The Katrina Aid Today partnership was formed in response to the unpresented need following Hurricane Katrina. The partners aligned with this Consortium are (listed alphabetically):
Boat People SoS
Catholic Charities
Episcopal Relief and Development
Lutheran Disaster Response
National Disability Rights
Odyssey House - Louisiana
Society of St. Vincent de Paul
The Salvation Army
Volunteers of America
And 17 other Valued Grassroots Organizations
The Salvation Army, with Katrina Aid Today funding and its own funds from private contributions, created its Katrina Long Term Recovery Case Management Program. Guided by UMCOR Long Term Recovery Case Management principles approxamately fifty percent of the program activities are centered on the immediate storm impacted destiniation areas in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama as well as the other evacuee destinations of Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Survivors that have relocated across America will be assisted in their new locations.
The goal of our case management engagement with Hurricane Katrina evacuee households is to facilitate their access to all resources necessary to restore their households to their maximum level of potential and self-sufficiency. This includes permanent housing in the community where they choose to reside (pre-Katrina or destination city). This is to be done through extensive case management engagement with case managed households, by consorting with other Katrina Aid Today consortium member agencies and Long Term Recovery Committees (LTRCs), and carried out through professional social workers and qualified volunteer case managers.
Our Objectives
- Provide Case Management services to 13,840 Katrina survivor households
- Develop a recovery action plan for each household
- Enhance the psychosocial well being of these families
- Hire and train 86 professional Long Term Recovery Specialist
- Identify and train 346 case manager volunteers to work with these specialist
- Coordinate service delivery locally and nationally with other members of the National Case Management Consortium through the use of Long Term Recovery Groups, Unmet Needs Committies, and the Coordinated Assistance Network (CAN) web-based software
Please click here to learn more about the partnership between Habitat for Humanity and The Salvation Army to build homes for Hurricane Katrina victims.