NEW ORLEANS – Today, Governor Bobby Jindal highlighted the importance of SB 701 in New Orleans, legislation creating Neighborhood Place. Currently, when a family in Louisiana needs human or social services, they often have to travel to multiple locations, fill out multiple applications and then receive fragmented services. Neighborhood Place creates an integrated human and social services model in Louisiana, which was first implemented in Kentucky. SB 701 mandates that the Departments of Social Services, Education, Health and Hospitals, the Louisiana Workforce Commission and Office of Juvenile Justice work together with communities to serve families from single locations that will be established across the state, to create a more streamlined delivery of services.
Governor Jindal said, “This Neighborhood Place model supports our overall mission to streamline the functions of government and make services more efficient to better meet the needs of the individuals they serve.”
Department of Social Services Secretary Ann Silverberg Williamson said, “We are committed to improving the outcomes when it comes to the delivery of social, health and educational services and while this is now a new state law, Neighborhood Place is truly a community effort. We are actively seeking partnerships with communities that want to work with us to make Neighborhood Place succeed in Louisiana.”
Neighborhood Place began in Kentucky as a way to improve the educational achievement of students in Louisville and it has achieved documented success. In Louisiana, the first community to express interest in creating a Neighborhood Place is Central City in New Orleans and construction will soon be underway to make a facility at the MahaliaJacksonSchool. Community leaders in Baton Rouge, Lafayette, West Feliciana and Sabine Parishes have also expressed interest in supporting a Neighborhood Place facility.
The guiding principle behind Neighborhood Place is that when families find themselves facing the challenges of truancy, financial instability from unemployment or underemployment, lacking dependable child care for pre-school children, etc., Louisiana communities should have an accessible location where a multitude of services are made easily available to assist in getting all members of the family on course to achieving their goals of self-sufficiency.
In Kentucky, Neighborhood Places are physically set in communities where services are most needed and where they are accessible via public transportation, when it is available. They are also set in close proximity to other hubs of service delivery such as a school based health clinic or a community center. Within a Neighborhood Place, multiple service organizations have staff presence and are able to jointly provide case management to attain the best solutions for the family’s need.
“I want to commend the vision of Senator Willie Mount and her co-authors, Senators Cassidy, Cheek, Erdey, Gray, Heitmeier and Nevers for championing this legislation that will have a real impact on the families that we serve in Louisiana,” said Williamson. “I am grateful to Governor Jindal and to them for their support in making this vision a reality for our state.”
Wut did I put down???? Oh yeah.....Efficiency is always the desired out come of conquest......................... Now as far as part deue of that contemplation goes, I am considering the rest of the tangent and asking myself, the fish that go into the cage for aid, what safety do they have?????? I have heard other visons detailed by our Fuhrer that says something about 'confining people for their own and the publics safety'............ Sounds like a good way of rounding up a bunch of undesirables and shipping them off to where?????? Yeah Nagin, I'm talking about people like you, and Pi, I am no fool when it comes to respecting history... It does have a habit of repeating itself........ So there is no critical thinking involved there, only consideration for the critical events that may follow..... Written by
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Wow!!! Solutions here. It is about time. I, remember the Poster Child back then, who suffered because services were so fragmented and left hand did not know what right hand was doing and the law changes daily by the time you have to finish prooving yourself through the maze of bureaucracy? I have been pitched back and forth like a football passing the buck from one bureau to another to get services and got nowhere, because I did not fit any of the categories which services are provided for.
A lot of middle class America, working poor, and even those homeless under the interstate, their problem is they fit 90% of criterion to get aid are also a victim of this.
I am amazed that this Governor, et al are getting on it and proposing something like this.
One Stop Shop is the answer.
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Oh come on Bill, I just think it's a good idea to look at what others do and emulate them - you did say your patent "improved" upon an earlier idea, no? Argumentative SOB........................well............perhaps this is a... Written by ...case of "it takes one to know one"
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Efficiency is always the desired out come of conquest......... The only trouble with excellence in efficiency is it often times strips the fiber of morals away from the human psyche.. Ask any little Grupenfuher from the post war era……………….. Written by
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Yet another program copied from some other state. Being a bit of a history buff, I cannot help but admire the ancient Romans. Although they were innovative in many ways, they were also well know for "stealing shamelessly" the ideas they encountered from other people. Both their innovation and their adaptation of other's ideas helped to make them such a great people. So - yet again - I think our governor is taking our state on the right path. Written by kpf
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