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Join us in Lake Charles in October the Annual Housing & Community Fair -Sign Up Today

Saturday October 26th
10am to 1pm
Allen P August Multipurpose Center
2001 Moeling Street

  • How to Buy Your Own Home
  • Grants & Loan Information
  • Housing Rehab
  • Meet with Lenders
  • Sign up for Housing Classes
  • Healthy Homes Information
  • Lead Poisoning Prevention Information
  • FREE Workshops
  • Employment Opportunities
  • Trick or Treating for the Kiddos

If you are an organization, small business, social service agency, real estate agent or health care provider, please sign up for a table to participate in the Fair.

Info on Lake Charles Housing Fair 2019

Sponsored by Hancock-Whitney National Bank, CSE Federal Credit Union.

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Join the Louisiana Roundtable for the Environment

Can we count on you, your Group or business to help end Lead Poisoning in New Orleans? Join our coalition.

 Children in New Orleans have Blood Lead Levels of more than 3 times those in Flint, Michigan.

  • 99% of the drinking water tested by LSU has Lead.
  • Mardi Gras beads, makeup, jewelry and toys all have Lead.
  • Lead poisoning is not limited to children. Adults carry Lead in their bones.
  • Long-term exposure to Lead Poisoning causes learning disabilities, aggressive behaviors, damage to every organ in the body, dementia and death.

 The Louisiana Roundtable for the Environment is working on implementing policy around:

  • LEAD in the Water
  • Worker Safety
  • Increased testing of all children for Lead
  • Housing Rehabilitation
  • Intervention Programs: Special Education in Schools, mental health, violence prevention, re-entry programs and nutrition.

If you are a concerned about

  • Children
  • the elderly
  • mental health
  • special education and school issues
  • criminal justice
  • toxins and environmental health
  • safe housing

Join us and make your voice heard.

Meetings Every Last Weds of the Month

5:30pm

2221 St. Claude Avenue (at Elysian Fields)

Join the Roundtable and get involved in ending Lead Poisoning in New Orleans. Sign up Form at southernunitedneighborhoods.org or email director@southernunitedneighborhoods.org to join up yourself, your group, or your small business.  800-239-7379

New Roundtable Packets

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Southern United Neighborhoods Receives New Funding to Prevent and Respond to Childhood Lead Exposure

Children in New Orleans have blood-lead levels three times higher than children in Flint, Michigan.  Lead in New Orleans drinking water is a crisis in our city with aging water pipes and the slow replacement of lead service lines.  This grant will support our local efforts to build capacity and advance evidence-based lead poisoning prevention efforts through policy and systems change.

SUN  was recently awarded one of nine 2019 Lead Poisoning Prevention Grants as part of the National Center for Healthy Housing’s Equipping Communities for Action initiative. As one of the selected awardees under this initiative, funded by  the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with additional support from The New York Community TrustSUN will receive 18 months of coaching and support including access to national experts, engagement in a peer learning network, a customized analysis calculating the cost of childhood lead exposure and the economic benefits of interventions, and a $25,000 grant.

Partners supporting the initiative and enhancing guidance related to legal strategies, community leader engagement, cost analysis, and specific point sources of lead include representatives from Altarum, ChangeLab Solutions, Earthjustice, Environmental Defense Fund, and the National League of Cities.

The bundled award will help further our mission of eliminating childhood lead poisoning.

SUN works with the Louisiana Roundtable for the Environment to recommend policies around interventions for lead poisoning prevention. Current efforts include education and outreach around lead in our drinking water, contractor and homeowner education on safe lead work practices, social services to help support lead poisoned children and training residents in how to identify lead hazards in their home.

If you would like to join the Louisiana Roundtable for the Environment and participate in our efforts, please email director@southernunitedneighborhoods.org

Learn more about NCHH’s Equipping Communities for Action initiative and the 2019 Lead Poisoning Prevention Grant recipients. http://bit.ly/EquippingGrantees2019

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Southern United Neighborhoods (SUN) is a 501c3 public charity founded in March 2010 by low to moderate income people that uses research and training to combat the poverty, discrimination and community deterioration that keeps low income people from taking advantage of their rights and opportunities.

About the National Center for Healthy Housing:

The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) is the preeminent national nonprofit dedicated to securing healthy homes for all. Since 1992, NCHH has served as a highly regarded and credible change agent, successfully integrating healthy housing advocacy, research, and capacity building under one roof to reduce health disparities nationwide. Follow NCHH on Twitter (@nchh) or LinkedIn or become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/HealthyHousing.

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New Orleans Free Homebuyer/Credit Counseling Training Class Feb 7, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Want to buy your own home or rental property or start your own business? Get help getting started and find out what you need to get bank ready and credit ready. The class is open to all low to moderate income families regardless of credit history or income.

Thursday Feb 7th 6pm at 2221 St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans (at Elysian Fields)

Call 800-239-7379 or email director@southernunitedneighborhoods.org to register.

 

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Join us in Lake Charles, LA for National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week October 21-27, 2018

Join us at the A Community Voice Housing & Community Fair on Sat October 27th for FREE information and workshop on Lead Poisoning Prevention. Did you know that only about 23% of all kids under the age of 6 get their blood lead levels tested in Calcasieu Parish, even though universal testing is the law in Louisiana?

Find out what the sources of lead are in your home, community, school and work, what lead does to your body, and what you can do to eliminate exposures to lead hazards.

Sat October 27th

10am to 1pm

Allen P August Multipurpose Center

2001 Moeling Street in Lake Charles

LC Hsg Fair Flyer 2018

Remember that there are no safe levels of lead exposure!

Additional information on Lead Poisoning Prevention Week!

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Next NOLA Housing & Credit Counseling Workshop will be July 12th

Call 800-239-7379 to Register for the Class.

Schedule for the Rest of the Year

Southern United Neighborhoods/A Community Voice Housing Classes

Normally Every 1st Thursday of the Month (except July 12th).  There are 6 classes you can come out to all classes as many times as you want or need the information.

Class 5          Thursday July 12th

Class 6          Thursday August 2nd

Class 1          Thursday September 6th

Class 2          Thursday October 4th

Class 3          Thursday November 1st

No Classes in December or January – we can still work with you one on one

Call for a Loan Counseling Appointment  800-239-7379  to go over credit, budgeting, and other issues M-F 10am to 7pm; Sat from 10am to 2pm

 

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Learn How to Buy a Home Without Getting Scammed

We work with everyone regardless of credit situation and income to help you make the right financial decisions.  We can help you qualify for any type of loan from small business to home purchase.

Learn the dos and don’ts on credit.

Next New Orleans Workshop is Thursday May 3rd for 6pm.

2221 St. Claude

Call us to register for the class 800-239-7379

 

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