Thursday, April 25, 2024
4/25/2024
Resources for Human Development, Inc. (RHD) will expand its Family House Louisiana (FHLA) program to provide residential substance abuse treatment in Greater New Orleans to low income pregnant and post-partum women and their dependent children. This program will use evidence-based and innovative treatment modalities to address addiction issues, improve parenting skills, and reunite families. The expanded program will serve 174 unduplicated women during the three-year funding period. RHD estimates, based on prior experience operating this program, that the 174 women will have 261 children that FHLA will serve over the three-year grant period. Grant funds will be used to: increase the number of women and children served by Family House Louisiana; increase the number of pregnant and postpartum women served by the entire program through intensive outreach to community health centers, public and private child welfare agencies, and other providers who are likely to have contact with women in the targeted population; and expand services to non-resident children and, where appropriate, fathers to facilitate family reunification. Program goals will focus on helping each woman achieve abstinence from alcohol and illegal drugs, improve parenting skills, avoid involvement with the criminal justice system, obtain housing and employment upon discharge, and become reunited with their family.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
