Baton Rouge Area Substance Abuse Clinic
    4615 Government Street, Building 1
    Baton Rouge, LA 70806
Parish of East Baton Rouge
(504) 922-0050 (Voice)
(504) 922-0068 (FAX)
Antonia Gentry
Ownership:  State/Local Government
Number of Staff:  35 Full-time; 1 Part-time
Interpreters:  Contractual
Services Offered:  Alcoholism; Drug Abuse; Information/Referral; Prevention/Education; Assessment/Intake; Detox; Inpatient; Outpatient; Family Programs; Aftercare; Halfway Housing
Special Devices for the Deaf:  Louisiana Relay Services
Number of Deaf Clients Served:  2 in the Past 6 Months
Ages of Clients Served:  Hispanic; Native American; Women; DWI; HIV Positive People; People with AIDS; Deaf
Financial Arrangements:  Self-pay; Sliding Fee Scale; SSI/SSD; Medicaid; Medicare

Mandeville

Southeast Louisiana Hospital
Deaf Services
    1522 Brookhollow Dr
    Baton Rouge, LA 70810-3522
    Parish of St Tammany
    (504) 756-5339 (Voice/TTY)
    (504) 626-6658 (FAX)
Rita DeVries
Host Institution:  Southeast Louisiana Hospital
Year Established:  1990
Ownership:  State/Local Government
Number of Staff:  2 Part-time; American Sign Language Skilled
Interpreters:  5 Part-time; Contract with local Deaf Action Center
Services Offered:  Information/Referral; Inpatient
Number of Special Devices for the Deaf:  Closed Captioning; TTYs/Amplifiers
Number of Deaf Clients Served:  4 Past 6 Months; 6 Past Year
Ages of Clients Served:  All Ages above 6
Populations Served:  Hispanic; Native American Women; Developmentally Disabled; Deaf; Deaf/Blind
Financial Arrangements:  Self-pay; Sliding Fee Scale; SSI/SSD; Medicaid; Medicare; Private Insurance

New Orleans

Deaf-Blind Program and Supported Living Program
    1555 Poydra ssi, Suite 1500
    New Orleans, LA 70012
Parish of Orleans
(504) 522-1955 (Voice), (504) 522-1956 (TTY)
(504) 522-1954 (FAX)
Suzette Dawson
Host Institution:  New Orleans Resources for Independent Living, Inc.
Year Established:  1993
Ownership:  Private Nonprofit; Federal, State and Helen Keller National Center grants
Number of Staff:  23 Full-time; 1 Part-time; 3 Deaf; 5 American Sign Language Skilled; 2 Multi-lingual
Interpreters:  Contractual
Services Offered:  Information/Referral; Assessment/Intake; Communication and Independent Living Skills Training, Advocacy, etc
Special Devices for the Deaf and Deaf/Blind:  1 Closed Captioning; 4 TTYs; 1 Telebrailer; Braille
Translation Software Program; Braille Printer; CCTV
Number of Deaf Clients Served:  8 in the Past 6 Months; 12 in the Past Year
Ages of Clients Served:  All Ages
Populations Served:  Hispanic; Native American; Women; DWI; HIV Positive People; People with
AIDS; Developmentally Disabled; Mentally Ill Chemical Abusers; Deaf; Deaf/Blind; and all other Disabilities
Financial Arrangements:  Services are provided free of charge
Publications:  Newsletter, NORIL News; Kara Hoerner

Shreveport

The Betty and Leonard Phillips Deaf Action Center Substance Abuse Program
    601 Jordan
    Shreveport, LA 71101
Parish of Caddo
(318) 425-7781 (Voice) (318) 425-7781; (318) 226-1299 (FAX)
E-mail: kharrell@deafactioncenter.org
Kim Harrell
Host Institution:  Deaf Action Center and Northwest Regional Alcohol Drug Abuse Clinic
Year Established:  1986
Ownership:  Private Nonprofit
Number of Staff:  7 Full-time; 1 Deaf; 7 American Sign Language Skilled; 3 Number of Multi-lingual
Interpreters:  7 Full-time
Services Offered:  Alcoholism; Drug Abuse; Information/Referral; Prevention/Education;
Assessment/Intake; Detox; Inpatient; Out-patient Treatment; Family Programs; Aftercare; Halfway Housing
Interpreted AA Meetings:  8 In-house; 12 in area
Special Devices for the Deaf: 3 Closed captioning; 3 TTYs
Number of Deaf Clients Served:  12 in the Past 6 Months; 50 in the Past Year
Ages of Clients Served:  Under 18; 18-25; 25-50; All Ages
Populations Served:  Black; Hispanic; Native American; Women; DWI; HIV Positive People; People with Aids; Developmentally Disabled; Mentally ill Chemical Abusers; Deaf
Financial Arrangements:  Self-pay; Sliding Fee Scale; SSI/SSD; Medicaid; Medicare

This program has been developed in the course of an agreement among the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS), Rochester Institute of Technology, and the Monroe County Department of Mental Health.  Copying is freely allowed so long as credit is given and the copies are not sold.