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98 organizations

Listings and services come from your original directory. Confirm availability and eligibility directly; some services may be referrals.

From your Find Help LA directory

232-HELP/211

1005 Jefferson Street Lafayette, LA 70501

Addiction or Suicide InterventionBaby SuppliesChild Care Assistance+14
Details & listed services

232-HELP is a single destination agency providing information, education and referral services. Guidance and direct services are rendered as required. They work to help those in crisis return to being healthy and productive members of the community and to empower and strengthen individuals and families by connecting those in need with community and social services that address their needs.

  • Addiction or Suicide Intervention
  • Baby Supplies
  • Child Care Assistance
  • Counseling for Women and Families
  • Disability Support Organizations
  • Domestic or Sexual Violence Resources and Shelters
  • Education Help
  • Employment Help
  • Financial Help
  • Food and Clothing Aid
  • Health Services
  • Housing Assistance and Shelter
  • Human Trafficking Rescue
  • Low-Income Legal Services
  • Mentorship
  • Parenting Resources
  • Pregnancy or Infant Loss Support

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

A Pregnancy Center and Clinic

913 S. College Rd. Ste. 206 Lafayette, LA 70503

Abortion Recovery and HealingAdoption ServicesBaby Supplies+14
Details & listed services

Are you pregnant and not sure what to do or where to go for help? We want to help you! We are a FREE medical clinic and educational resource center established just for you. We want to help you during this time in your life by providing the following FREE services to you:

  • Abortion Recovery and Healing
  • Adoption Services
  • Baby Supplies
  • Child Care Assistance
  • Counseling for Women and Families
  • Disability Support Organizations
  • Domestic or Sexual Violence Resources and Shelters
  • Education Help
  • Employment Help
  • Financial Help
  • Food and Clothing Aid
  • Health Services
  • Human Trafficking Rescue
  • Mentorship
  • Parenting Resources
  • Pregnancy Center
  • Pregnancy or Infant Loss Support

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

ABC Pregnancy Center

600 Belden St. Lake Charles, LA 70601

Abortion Recovery and HealingAdoption ServicesBaby Supplies+11
Details & listed services

You may be wondering how you will support a new baby or you may be considering how you'll cope with an adoption or an abortion. Are others rushing you into making an uninformed decision? We know there is a lot to consider and we want to help. Connect with the nurses at this location by texting (337) 520-8140.

  • Abortion Recovery and Healing
  • Adoption Services
  • Baby Supplies
  • Child Care Assistance
  • Counseling for Women and Families
  • Education Help
  • Employment Help
  • Financial Help
  • Food and Clothing Aid
  • Health Services
  • Mentorship
  • Parenting Resources
  • Pregnancy Center
  • Pregnancy or Infant Loss Support

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

Abraham’s Tent

2424 Fruge Street Lake Charles, LA 70601

Food and Clothing Aid
Details & listed services

This is a local agency that provides Soup kitchen (hot meals for persons who are indigent), as well as (local) transportation assistance, and food when available (for families & individuals).

  • Food and Clothing Aid

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

Access Pregnancy Center

921 Aris Avenue, Ste. B Metairie, LA 70005

Abortion Recovery and HealingAdoption ServicesBaby Supplies+14
Details & listed services

The possibility of an unplanned pregnancy brings with it many questions, which is only natural. ACCESS Pregnancy & Referral Centers are here for you. Caring staff members and volunteers are here to support you during this time of uncertainty. Our client advocates are extensively trained to provide individualized support and referrals for all of your pregnancy-related concerns. Professional counseling services are available by referral. ACCESS also runs a Diaper Bank at this location: families may pick up a supply of diapers and wipes per child once every 30 days (assuming the requested size is in stock and available). Call 504-427-1278 for more information about the ACCESS Diaper Bank program.

  • Abortion Recovery and Healing
  • Adoption Services
  • Baby Supplies
  • Child Care Assistance
  • Counseling for Women and Families
  • Disability Support Organizations
  • Domestic or Sexual Violence Resources and Shelters
  • Education Help
  • Employment Help
  • Financial Help
  • Food and Clothing Aid
  • Health Services
  • Human Trafficking Rescue
  • Mentorship
  • Parenting Resources
  • Pregnancy Center
  • Pregnancy or Infant Loss Support

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

Avoyelles Pregnancy Center

221 N. Monroe St., Suite 2, Marksville, LA 71351

Abortion Recovery and HealingAdoption ServicesBaby Supplies+9
Details & listed services

Any woman who finds herself in an unplanned pregnancy is welcome to receive confidential services from any one of our centers. Your personal information will not be shared with anyone outside of our organization.You will receive kindness & compassionate care in a non-judgmental atmosphere when you come to us. Our team of staff and volunteers will care for you with respect and always do our very best to meet your needs. Accurate information will be shared with you regarding your health and your options surrounding this pregnancy. We will listen to your story and your journey all while making sure you receive the best of care.

  • Abortion Recovery and Healing
  • Adoption Services
  • Baby Supplies
  • Child Care Assistance
  • Counseling for Women and Families
  • Food and Clothing Aid
  • Health Services
  • Housing Assistance and Shelter
  • Mentorship
  • Parenting Resources
  • Pregnancy Center
  • Pregnancy or Infant Loss Support

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

Baptist Friendship House

813 Elysian Fields Avenue New Orleans, LA 70117

Food and Clothing AidHousing Assistance and Shelter
Details & listed services

In recognizing the worth and dignity of homeless women and children, Baptist Friendship House seeks to minister to the physical, emotional and spiritual needs, through love, action, and truth as revealed in God’s Word in Matthew 25, and 1 John 3:17-18.

  • Food and Clothing Aid
  • Housing Assistance and Shelter

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

Beautiful Beginnings Homeless Shelter

300 Bond Street Houma, LA 70360

Financial HelpHousing Assistance and Shelter
Details & listed services

Through an Emergency Shelter Grant, Start Corporation provides daytime social services staff to homeless families with children for up to six months while they work towards self-sufficiency.

  • Financial Help
  • Housing Assistance and Shelter

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

Boulevard Baptist Mission Center

3007 Enterprise Blvd Lake Charles, LA 70601

Food and Clothing Aid
Details & listed services

Clothing for children and adults

  • Food and Clothing Aid

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

Boulevard Church of Christ

2801 Enterprise Boulevard Lake Charles, LA 70601

Food and Clothing Aid
Details & listed services

The primary purpose of the LSNDC System is to provide a client and service data management tool to aid the ten regional Continua of Care to end homelessness in Louisiana.

  • Food and Clothing Aid

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

Cane River Food Pantry

446 Martin Luther King Blvd. Natchitoches, LA 71457

Food and Clothing Aid
Details & listed services

Cane River Food Pantry distributes food on the second Saturday of each month.

  • Food and Clothing Aid

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

Care Pregnancy Center

921 Shreveport-Barksdale Hwy. Shreveport, Louisiana 71105

Abortion Recovery and HealingAdoption ServicesBaby Supplies+14
Details & listed services

At the Care Pregnancy Center, we are here to answer your questions and help you learn about your options.

  • Abortion Recovery and Healing
  • Adoption Services
  • Baby Supplies
  • Child Care Assistance
  • Counseling for Women and Families
  • Disability Support Organizations
  • Domestic or Sexual Violence Resources and Shelters
  • Education Help
  • Employment Help
  • Financial Help
  • Food and Clothing Aid
  • Health Services
  • Human Trafficking Rescue
  • Mentorship
  • Parenting Resources
  • Pregnancy Center
  • Pregnancy or Infant Loss Support

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

Case Management, Greater New Orleans Area

1000 Howard Ave. Suite 200 New Orleans, LA 70113

Adoption ServicesBaby SuppliesChild Care Assistance+11
Details & listed services

Our Parish and Community Ministry and Parish Social Ministry provides resources, assistance, and development for our parishes to better care for the people in need in their communities. Our case managers strive to connect those in need to available resources, programs, and ministries within Catholic Charities and through our network of community partners.

  • Adoption Services
  • Baby Supplies
  • Child Care Assistance
  • Disability Support Organizations
  • Education Help
  • Employment Help
  • Financial Help
  • Food and Clothing Aid
  • Health Services
  • Housing Assistance and Shelter
  • Low-Income Legal Services
  • Mentorship
  • Parenting Resources
  • Pregnancy or Infant Loss Support

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

Catholic Charities and Special Ministries Alexandria LA

4400 Coliseum Blvd. Alexandria, LA 71303

Counseling for Women and FamiliesFood and Clothing AidHealth Services
Details & listed services

On July 29, 1853, Pope Pius IX created a diocese in the oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase, Le Post de Natchitoches. It had only five priests and five churches to serve the 20,000 Catholics who were spread throughout the entire northern half of Louisiana.

  • Counseling for Women and Families
  • Food and Clothing Aid
  • Health Services

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans

1000 Howard Ave. Suite 200 New Orleans, LA 70113

Adoption ServicesCounseling for Women and FamiliesDomestic or Sexual Violence Resources and Shelters+7
Details & listed services

We create a just society by welcoming the most vulnerable among us, walking beside them and working to meet their needs.

  • Adoption Services
  • Counseling for Women and Families
  • Domestic or Sexual Violence Resources and Shelters
  • Education Help
  • Employment Help
  • Financial Help
  • Food and Clothing Aid
  • Health Services
  • Housing Assistance and Shelter
  • Parenting Resources

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

Catholic Charities Diocese of Baton Rouge

1900 Acadian Thruway Baton Rouge, LA 70808

Adoption ServicesCounseling for Women and FamiliesDomestic or Sexual Violence Resources and Shelters+7
Details & listed services

We create a just society by welcoming the most vulnerable among us, walking beside them and working to meet their needs.

  • Adoption Services
  • Counseling for Women and Families
  • Domestic or Sexual Violence Resources and Shelters
  • Education Help
  • Employment Help
  • Financial Help
  • Food and Clothing Aid
  • Health Services
  • Housing Assistance and Shelter
  • Parenting Resources

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

Catholic Charities Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux

1220 Aycock Street Houma, LA 70360

Adoption ServicesCounseling for Women and FamiliesDomestic or Sexual Violence Resources and Shelters+7
Details & listed services

We create a just society by welcoming the most vulnerable among us, walking beside them and working to meet their needs.

  • Adoption Services
  • Counseling for Women and Families
  • Domestic or Sexual Violence Resources and Shelters
  • Education Help
  • Employment Help
  • Financial Help
  • Food and Clothing Aid
  • Health Services
  • Housing Assistance and Shelter
  • Parenting Resources

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

Catholic Charities of Acadiana

405 St. John St. Lafayette, LA 70502

Adoption ServicesCounseling for Women and FamiliesDomestic or Sexual Violence Resources and Shelters+7
Details & listed services

We create a just society by welcoming the most vulnerable among us, walking beside them and working to meet their needs.

  • Adoption Services
  • Counseling for Women and Families
  • Domestic or Sexual Violence Resources and Shelters
  • Education Help
  • Employment Help
  • Financial Help
  • Food and Clothing Aid
  • Health Services
  • Housing Assistance and Shelter
  • Parenting Resources

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

Catholic Charities of North Louisiana

902 Olive St. Shreveport, LA 71104

Adoption ServicesCounseling for Women and FamiliesDomestic or Sexual Violence Resources and Shelters+7
Details & listed services

We create a just society by welcoming the most vulnerable among us, walking beside them and working to meet their needs.

  • Adoption Services
  • Counseling for Women and Families
  • Domestic or Sexual Violence Resources and Shelters
  • Education Help
  • Employment Help
  • Financial Help
  • Food and Clothing Aid
  • Health Services
  • Housing Assistance and Shelter
  • Parenting Resources

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

From your Find Help LA directory

Catholic Charities of North Louisiana

3208 Concordia Street Monroe, LA 71201

Baby SuppliesEducation HelpFinancial Help+4
Details & listed services

We create a just society by welcoming the most vulnerable among us, walking beside them and working to meet their needs.

  • Baby Supplies
  • Education Help
  • Financial Help
  • Food and Clothing Aid
  • Housing Assistance and Shelter
  • Low-Income Legal Services
  • Parenting Resources

Services may include referrals. Contact this organization to confirm services, availability, costs and eligibility.

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Statewide resources & next steps

Louisiana / statewide access

Louisiana SNAP

Monthly benefits to help eligible households buy groceries.

Who can apply: Households meeting current income and other program requirements.

Apply for food assistance