Help in Disaster
Response & Recovery Efforts
In a disaster, the Louisiana Serve Commission in partnership with the state's Volunteer Centers and HandsOn affiliates, serve to provide information about volunteer needs. A disaster banner will be put up on the homepage of volunteerlouisiana.gov identifying ways that citizens can help and items that can be donated.
The Louisiana Serve Commission and the state's Volunteer Centers and HandsOn affiliates are members of the Louisiana Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (LAVOAD) or regional VOADs and help connect and coordinate nonprofit and faith-based resources to state and parish response efforts, and to locate resources for nonprofit and faith-based organizatons responding to citizen and community needs.
At this time there are no response efforts in progress, but recovery efforts from recent hurricanes are occurring along the Gulf Coast, particulary in Orleans, Lafourche, Terrebonne, Vermillion, Cameron and Calcasieu parishes. If you would like to learn about volunteer opportunities or ways to donate to these efforts, visit volunteerlouisiana.gov or one of the state's Volunteer Centers.
If you would like to be notified of disaster opportunities in the future, please register online at http://www.helpindisaster.org.
