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Health Care for All at LaCHIP Conference
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Members of the Kingsley House Health Care For All program recently participated in the annual Louisiana Children's Health Insurance Program (LaCHIP) conference in Baton Rouge. At the seminar, Medicaid representatives, health care experts, faith leaders and social workers from agencies throughout the state discussed ongoing challenges to meet health care needs among children and their families. The Kingsley House team also had the opportunity to meet Governor Kathleen Blanco, pictured above, and talk about health care issues in Louisiana.
Before Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals reports that more than 88,000 children in Orleans Parish were enrolled in Medicaid, which LaCHIP helps supplement. Today, that number is less than 40,000. While the sharp decline can be attributed to a drop in overall population after the storm, many people remain unaware that they are eligible for these services. Through various community outreach and assessment programs, Kingsley House seeks out those who qualify for health insurance programs like LaCHIP and ensure that they receive benefits they are eligible for.
Over the past year, the Health Care For All program has helped more than 2,500 families connect to health care service enrollment and other needed resources. Following the LaCHIP conference, Kingsley House hopes to reach out to a greater number of vulnerable families and continue to help improve lives of people in Southeast Louisiana. |
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Kingsley House receives LANO Standards of Excellence honor
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The Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations (LANO) recently honored Kingsley House with the Louisiana Standards for Excellence award. Standards of Excellence is an ethics and accountability program that describes how the most well-managed and responsibly governed organizations should, and do operate. Kingsley House is one of only 31 nonprofit organizations in the state of Louisiana to receive this award, and only one of two agencies in New Orleans.
The Standards set benchmarks for ethical and accountable conduct in nonprofit leadership and management. The Standards are based on honesty, integrity, fairness, respect, trust, responsibility, and accountability in the nonprofit program operations, governance, human resources, financial management and fundraising. The Standards cover eight areas of nonprofit organizations: mission and program; governing body; conflict of interest; human resources; financial and legal; openness; fundraising; and public policy and public affairs. |
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Fall Fest 2007 |
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Preschool and Early Head Start children celebrated Halloween and the onset of the autumn season during their annual Fall Fest. Teachers, parents and Kingsley House staff also joined in on the festivities which included face painting, arts and crafts, and games for the kids.
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Kingsley House, Inc.
1600 Constance Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130-4641 |
504.523.6221 telephone
504.523.4450 fax
www.kingsleyhouse.org
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About Kingsley House |
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Kingsley House, nationally accredited and renowned as the oldest Settlement House in the South, has served more than half a million people since it was founded in 1896. Today, we serve over 8,000 people per year in a wide variety of capacity building programs. We continue to devote all of our energies and resources to our mission of “educating children, strengthening families, and building community” as we work towards the successful recovery and rebuilding of our city, state and region.
Kingsley House is a United Way Partner Agency
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Kingsley House