800-239-7379

Southwest Louisiana Hurricane Resources

Call 225-342-2727, or go online to reach out to loved ones who may be in state-run non-congregate shelters. Click here to access the form.

To find an open shelter, go to the nearest evacuation center, visit redcross.org or view open shelters through the Red Cross Emergency app. If you don’t have access to a computer or smart phone, call 800-RED-CROSS (800-733-2767) to be directed to an evacuation center where you will be provided with sheltering options near you. Alternatively, try calling 211 or 311, if these services are available in your area.

Calling 211 can help you find a shelter for medical needs and pets.

If you are low on funds and need a place to stay the state of Louisiana paying for rooms and giving free meals (898211 text LASHELTER)

FEMA Assistance to individuals and households for the following parishes is now available.

Allen (Parish)

Crisis Cleanup hotline: Call 844-965-1386

FEMA is providing Tarps–Call 1 888 Roof Blu or 1 888 766 3258

Cajun Navy (504) 517-6289  or (844) 482-6289 will put up Tarps and more such as food.

Christian World has volunteers 2001 E Gauthier Rd.  Call 1800-730-2537

Samaritan’s Purse at Sale Street Baptist Church 337-244-0982

First Baptist Moss Bluff 844-965-1386 free services to cut trees, remove drywall flooring and appliances, tarping, mold mitigation

If anyone believes they may have been victimized by a scammer, please contact the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office at 337-491-3605.

Report Insurance problems/questions to the Louisiana Department of Insurance  at (225) 342-5900

New Orleans Resources

New Orleans shelter capacity has been reached. If you are still in need of shelter, the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services is directing people to the Alexandria Mega Shelter, 8125 Hwy 71 South, Alexandria, LA 71302. This information is also available via 2-1-1.

Crawford Transit Services provides transportation to pharmacies and Walmart 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Call (504) 729-0529 for more information.

RTA provides transportation to City of New Orleans resource center at the Convention Center 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Resource center closes at 2 p.m. and is no open on the weekends or holidays).

Text WELCOMENOLA to 888777 for information from the City of New Orleans on resources, services, and events available to you.

Baton Rouge Resources

Catholic Charities 225-336-8700

Free Haircuts and Food 6649 Sullivan Rd. Greenwell Springs, LA.

Baton Rouge Emergency Aid Coalition breac225@gmail.com

Food Bank Elizabeth Baptist Church 205 E Main St Elizabeth, LA 318-634-7422

Lake Charles Resources

List of all Food Sites https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ6UFoM_AjinFLqunpotdQOOyn6tWaUXomA2IQDoItg/edit?usp=sharing

For those in Lake Charles or checking on their property, SWLA Center for Health Services at 2000 Opelousas Street will serve as the command center to North Lake Charles. Open daily from 9 am to 7 pm to offer food, toiletries, baby diapers, wipes, masks, baby milk, baby food, and hot meals.

The National Guard will be distributing food, water, ice and tarps to residents at 8 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 30 at the Lake Charles Civic Center. One tarp per vehicle.

United Way of Southwest Louisiana TEXT LAURA to 40403

World Central Kitchen Hot Meals at Walmart: 3415 Gerstner Memorial Blvd in Lake Charles (Lots of other stuff going on in this parking lot like selling generators and stuff but probably for a lot of money).

Hot Meals at Hancock Whitney on 3401 Ryan Street Lake Charles

Mercy Chefs, a Virginia-based disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization, serving lunch daily from 11 – 1 and dinner from 4 – 6 at Life United Church, 1800 East College St.

The Jolly Pig Cooking Team from Texas will be serving free hot meals at Brookshire Brothers in Sulphur. Meals will be served at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, August 30.

Moss Bluff Pentecostal on La-378 is serving free hot meals, starting at noon.

Red Cross and Southern Baptists will be providing meals at 6 p.m. at the Civic Center. On Monday, two meal times will be provided at this location. Times TBA.

Meals being given out at Walmart on Hwy. 14 in Lake Charles.

Open Door Baptist on 2154 Hwy 171 in DeRidder will be handing out supplies Monday through Thursday from noon to 3 p.m. They will have pet food, toiletries, non-perishable food, water, tarps, and female products.

Calcasieu Parish Temporary Work Permits

Prien Lake Park, Harbor’s Edge Pavilion, 3700 West Prien Lake Road in Lake Charles, will be open from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday

Calcasieu Parish Schools

Will start virtual learning on Sept. 28th

GAS

Sam’s Club has gas 2025 Sam’s Way Lake Charles

Raceway and Shell on Highway 171 in Lake Charles have gas.

Chevron on Lake and Gauthier in Lake Charles has gas.

Tobacco Plus on Ryan in Lake Charles has gas.

The Neighborhood Walmart on Ryan Street

7080 Gulf Hwy. Sunday 12 p.m. – 6 p.m., Monday – Friday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (cash only)

1901 Sam Houston Jones Pkwy. Sunday 12 p.m. – 6 p.m., Monday – Friday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (cash only)

2401 Westwood Sunday 12 p.m. – 6 p.m., Monday – Friday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (cash only)

108 – Exxon and Chevron near Lowe’s (all grades not available)

EZ Mart, corner of Hwy. 90 and 108 (all grades not available)

Walmart Neighborhood Market in Moss Bluff open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Stores

Stine open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Lake Charles and Sulphur.

Lowe’s in Sulphur is open

Food is available at the old Rite Aid on the corner of Beglis and 90

SWLA Center for Health Services on 2000 Opelousas Street will have porta-potties, medical trailers, and showers

SWLA Center for Health Services and Mount Olive Baptist Church will be providing meals, water and clothing. Please call 337-304-8302 or 337-540-5332. Might have to text if phone lines are down. They will do wellness checks for people who didn’t leave.

CVS on Ryan Street in Lake Charles and CVS in Sulphur open and refiling prescriptions.

Walgreens -Lake Charles, 4097 Ryan Street from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (337-474-0434)

Lake Charles, 2755 Country Club Rd. from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (337-477-7564)

Moss Bluff, 120 N. Highway 171 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Their pharmacy will not be open until noon. (337-855-4848)

Misses Grocery is open 106 E Lincoln St, Sulphur, LA 70663

Target is open 1720 W Prien Lake Rd. until 5pm

ATT Charging Stations to charge your phone:

2801 Derek Drive in Lake Charles
419 West Prien Lake Rd in Lake Charles
1405 Beglis Parkway in Sulphur

Red Cross: Tarps, food and ice:

Calcasieu Parish –

• Site #1: Lake Charles Civic Center, 900 N. Lakeshore Drive, Lake Charles, LA 70601

• Site #2: McMurry Park, 300 South Hazel Street Sulphur, LA 70663 

Beauregard Parish –

• Site #1: Park Terrace Shopping Center, 1011 N Pine Street, Deridder, LA 70634

• Site #2: South Beauregard Elementary, 12380 Highway 171, Longville, LA 70652

The Red Cross has a site at the Allen August Multipurpose @ 2000 Moeling St., Lake Charles. They will provide items such as cots, mops, brooms, buckets, PPE, snacks and bottled water. Partnering with the Southern Baptists, Red Cross will also be providing two meals daily at this sites

Facebook Group: Hurricane Laura Aftermath (people are requesting pictures of their property from people who are driving around)

FEMA Hotel Vouchers https://www.femaevachotels.com

If you can’t go to the FEMA Hotel Voucher site, please Call 211 before traveling to see which voucher centers are open and if they have vouchers.

Lake Charles A Community Voice leader Mark Thibodeaux asks ACV to do all we can for SW Louisianans affected by the upcoming hurricane.

Hurricane Laura landfall is expected due south of Lake Charles, LA around 1 a.m. Thursday. There is a wide industrialized waterway that leads directly from the Gulf of Mexico to the city of Lake Charles, itself built around a large estuary, originally named Lac du Charles. After H. Rita, members of ACORN in North Lake Charles’ African American working and poor communities were badly flooded and needed assistance. By now we know plenty about what we can do to help and the Lake Charles members will tell us, too. It starts with organizing the residents to have a voice and a way to receive help.

Please contact us about where to send all volunteer supplies, help, etc. Donations can be made through the acommunityvoice.org donate button. Email bethbutler.south@gmail.com, messages at 800-239-7379.

Looking for more ideas and ways to help, please contact us.
Any info or strategies on how to test the water and soil is urgently needed. Lake Charles is surrounded by a vast array of petro-chemical industry, all in the hurricane’s pathway too. If you can generate some help on this, Thank you.

Friday August 28, 6:30 p.m.
Community Conference Call with Lake Charles and Southwest Louisiana members of A Community Voice / ACORN
To register for the phone call, residents who are asked to please leave your name and phone number at 800-239-7379
You will receive a text and or a phone call to give you the dial-in number for the Friday phone conference.
Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter will provide a list of resources for residents and we will be prepared to answer questions.

Please share this info.
Thanks everyone, fingers crossed!
Prayers and healing vibes can go straight to those in need.

Debra Campbell
Rev. Richard Bell
Beth Butler
A Community Voice – ACORN International
Higher Ground, National Flood Fighters coalition
info@acommunityvoice.org
FB: A Community Voice Louisiana
www.acommunityvoice.org
800-239-7379
Map of SW LA
https://www.pickatrail.com/topo-map/l/7.5×7.5/lake-charles-se-la.html

A Community Voice/Louisiana ACORN has had an agreement since 2004 with the Lake Charles Police Department in regards to the protocol around allegations of police brutality and racial profiling. This agreement has protected the rights of all residents of Lake Charles and prevented the highly publicized use and abuse of excessive police force. The protocol involves a procedure for investigations of police misconduct by multiple entities, as well as a procedure for filing additional complaints if the results of such investigations are left unresolved.  This agreement involves the use of dash cams at all times by officers. Failure to use dash cams or any officer turning off dash cams would be in violation of this agreement.

We are heart-broken that a resident of Lake Charles has been killed by a law enforcement officer who is first and foremost in a position to serve and protect.  A Community Voice has fought long and hard to prevent such incidents from occurring in Lake Charles. We believe that other means besides deadly force should always be the focus of all police training procedures.  As all of you, we are anxiously awaiting the results of the investigations and will work to mitigate any remaining conflicts between law enforcement and the community to prevent such incidents in the future.

In addition, A Community Voice is actively working across the state to reduce discrimination that includes the gross racial disparities in treatment and interventions within our criminal justice system and the lack of mental health care that has increased the number of individuals incarcerated or suffering from substance abuse issues in our State.

We are awaiting the results of the official investigation from the Louisiana State Troopers before filing additional complaints regarding this incident. However, no one should ever be shot in the back by a law enforcement officer regardless of the circumstances and expect all findings to correlate with this view. Please call A Community Voice at 337-707-1517 for more information.

Written by Tarek Polite for A Community Voice Lake Charles Housing Program Curriculum Pack

Mr. Lanny Roy

A Community Voice-President

The ACV homebuyer education is a unique program.  The program was started over 25 years ago by Mr. Lanny Roy due to the lack of financial literacy in the low-income community. The program operates on a semester basis which is comprised of a six month period.  Classes are held monthly on the 3^rd Thursday of each month at the Lake Charles city hall from 6:30pm-8:00pm.  A participant’s success is determined by their credit history demonstrated by a clean slate with all three major credit reporting bureaus and completion of all the courses taught during a semester. Upon completion of both of these requirements, participants receive a diploma demonstrating their completion of the program.  Generally, upon receiving their diploma, participants may be eligible for assistance with down payment and closing cost through the City of Lake Charles which is subject to fund availability.

Through this program countless numbers of individuals and families have successfully moved into homeownership.  Additionally for his work, Mr. Roy is known nationally and internationally having received numerous awards and accolades for his accomplishments working with low and minority communities for over 50 years as a community organizer and activist.

ACV is looking for businesses and organizations that would like to participate in our annual housing and community fair.

Governor John Bel Edwards

Office of the Governor
PO Box 94004
Baton Rouge, LA 70

CC: Senate Finance Committee

To: Governor John Bel Edwards,

Re: House Bill 1

We are writing to express our grave concerns about the proposed cuts in funding to the W.O. Moss Memorial Health Clinic.   Please veto this bill if it passes the legislature.

As you know, Governor Bobby Jindal privatized our charity care system and closed down W.O. Moss Memorial Hospital.  The closure of this hospital has adversely impacted the lives and health of Calcasieu parish residents.  As it is, the reductions affect many of us.  Those who can travel to Shreveport, like myself, have to pay for drivers and other costs of travel in addition to making the difficult trip itself.  Then, many are forced to pay to travel to other parts of the state.  All of us who travel and pay both financially and through physical hardship do this because health care is how we stay alive.  Our hospitals save our lives.

Closing down this clinic will remove the limited existing access to health care services, increase the cost to those who are already poor, including the elderly, disabled and families.

As lauded as has been the expansion of the petro chemical industry in Calcasieu, you know the increase in the sheer population of local residents has also increased the burden on our health care system, and we therefore require more health services, not less.

Sincerely,

Lanny Roy

President

A Community Voice