Katrina-Rita Disaster Case Management ProgramState of Louisiana Launches Disaster Case Management Pilot Program BATON ROUGE, La. - The Louisiana Recovery Authority has launched a $9.4 million Disaster Case Management Pilot Program to help approximately 3,000 households that are still receiving federal disaster housing assistance make a seamless transition to regular housing by March 31, 2010. By awarding grants to a lead coordinator and six nonprofit organizations, the LRA pilot program - which is funded by FEMA through the Stafford Act - will provide intensive case management services to an already targeted population of hurricane-impacted residents who had been housed in FEMA trailers or had been authorized to stay in a hotel/motel as of April 27. The pilot program awarded $859,440 to the Greater New Orleans Disaster Recovery Partnership for overall program monitoring, evaluation, data management and reporting. The awards to the six nonprofit case management organizations are as follows:  |
