- Many local agencies offer services for parents and children. Below is a listing of agencies that provide educational activities that support parenting skills and early childhood education. A complete listing of local service agencies may be obtained from the Ouachita Parish Public Library. After you have accessed the online catalog, select #7 - Community Resource Searches - from the menu.
- ARCO, A Community Resource
- SERVICES
- Early Intervention Program (Infant). Residential Services (Community homes and supervised apartments). Vocational Services. Family Support Services (Respite and personal care attendants).
- DESCRIPTION
- Provides services and training to persons with developmental disabilities and their families.
- PHONE
- 387-7817 Fax: 322-0914
- ADDRESS
- 900 North 3rd Street, Monroe, LA 71201
- URL
- http://monroe.iamerica.net/arco/
- HOURS
- 8:00 am - 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday
- Boys and Girls Clubs of West Monroe
- SERVICES
- Tutoring, computer lab, arts & crafts, library, gymnasium, weight training, swimming pool, woodworking shop, B.W.'s Place (a 50's style cafe used for vocational training)
- DESCRIPTION
- Provides quality programs to enhance the lives of young people. Focuses on disadvantaged youth. Service program areas include: education, citizenship, leadership, cultural/arts, social/recreation and outdoor/environmental.
- PHONE
- 323-1644 or 323-5368 Fax: 324-9999
- ADDRESS
- 500 Evergreen Street, West Monroe, LA 71292
- HOURS
- Summer: 7:30 am - 5:30 pm
- School Year: (Office) 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- (Club) 3:00pm - 7:00pm
- EPATT: Empowering Parents as Teachers Too!
- SERVICES
- Parenting workshops, self-esteem, fun-filled learning activities, make and take workshops, social learning skills, tutoring, Family Morning Out Workshop, discipline.
- DESCRIPTION
- Monroe City Schools Title I parental involvement program that provides on-site educational activities for parents and children.
- PHONE
- 387-6511 Fax: 325-6094
- ADDRESS
- 2009 Auburn Avenue, Monroe, LA 71201
- URL
- http://monroe.k12.la.us/mcs/district/epatt
- OFFICE HOURS
- 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
- Families Helping Families of Northeast Louisiana
- SERVICES
- Point of entry, referral, resources (books and videos dealing with disabilities and support topics), educational meetings
- DESCRIPTION
- Serves as resource, referral & support for families & professionals working with special needs individuals.
- PHONE
- 361-0487 Fax:361-0417
- ADDRESS
- 5200 Northeast Road, Monroe, LA 71203
- URL
- http://www.fhfla.org
HOURS- 8:00am - 3:00pm Monday-Friday
- Louisiana Association on Children Under Six
- SERVICES
- Publications, workshops, newsletters, journals, yearly conference
- DESCRIPTION
- LACUS is an advocacy group for children and families that is working toward upgrading care and education.
- PHONE
- (318) 448-8799
- ADDRESS
- P. O. Box 12842, Alexandria, LA 71315
- Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service
- SERVICES
- Education for 4-H youth on pertinent issues relevant to youth today. Information for farmers on growing and marketing of crops. Advice to gardeners, nursery operators and homeowners. Information for families.
- DESCRIPTION
- Presents educational information from Louisiana State University to farmers, gardeners, plant nurseries, homemakers, day care centers, youth, parents and the general public. Teaches leadership skills to youth through the 4-H program.
- PHONE
- 323-2251 Fax: 387-9376
- ADDRESS
- 704 Cypress Street, West Monroe, LA 71291
- HOURS
- 8:00 am - 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday
- March of Dimes
- SERVICES
- Educational materials and videos available for use. Advocacy. Research
- DESCRIPTION
- Voluntary non-profit health agency
- PHONE
- 387-3650 Fax: 324-9491
- ADDRESS
- 130 DeSiard, Suite 311, Monroe, LA 71201
- URL
- http://www.modimes.org
- HOURS
- 8:30 am - 12:00 pm & 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday
- Northeast Louisiana Regional Even Start Consortium
- SERVICES
- Early childhood education, parenting education, adult basic education
- DESCRIPTION
- Even Start is a family literacy program designed to integrate early childhood education by involving parents who have limited basic education skills in the education of their young children.
- PHONE
- 340-9677
- ADDRESS
- 701 St. John Street, Monroe, LA 71201
- HOURS
- 8:00 am - 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday
- Northeast Louisiana University Family Resource Center
- SERVICES
- Offers parenting classes and self-esteem classes for children; lends books and videos on parenting; holds workshops and seminars; provides meeting space to family-based groups
- DESCRIPTION
- The Family Resource Center aims to enable and empower families through support, referral, and developmentally appropriate educational services; offers information exchange and resource networks.
- PHONE
- 342-5437
- ADDRESS
- 5200 Northeast Road, Monroe, LA 71203
- HOURS
- 9:00am - 4:00 pm, weekdays
- Open only during morning hours in summer
- Northeast Louisiana University Marriage & Family Therapy Center
- DESCRIPTION
- Family, individual, and marital counseling.
- PHONE
- 362-3003
- ADDRESS
- 306 Strauss Hall, Monroe, LA 71209-0230
- URL
- http://www.nlu.edu/~gaushell/MFTCENTER.html
- HOURS
- 8:00am-8:00pm Monday-Thursday; 8:00am-4:30pm Friday
- Office of Community Services/Monroe Regional Office
- SERVICES
- Investigates reports of abuse/neglect of children; provides intensive in-home services to families involved in a reported validated incident of abuse/neglect. Provides temporary, substitute care for children who are in need of temporary home care and have been placed by the courts in the custody of the state. Alternate Family Care and Intensive Home-based Services. Workers recruit foster parents and provide training and certification services. They also seek adoptive homes for those children who are freed for adoption by a voluntary act of surrender by the parents or by the termination of parental rights by the court.
- DESCRIPTION
- A social service agency, the Office of Community Services administers and supervises a broad scope of programs designed to provide comprehensive social services to children and families. Such programs include child protection services, foster care, family services, adoption and day care. Services are provided in Parish OCS offices in Ouachita, Lincoln, Union, Morehouse, Richland, Franklin, West Carroll, East Carroll, Madison and Tensas parishes.
- PHONE
- 362-3362 Fax: 362-3013
- ADDRESS
- 122 St. John Street, Monroe, LA 71210
- HOURS
- 8:00 am - 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday
- Ouachita Parish Office of Community Services, Children, Youth and Family Services
- SERVICES
- Complaints of child abuse and/or neglect are investigated for children under eighteen (18) residing in Ouachita and Caldwell Parishes. Children placed in the State's custody are placed in certified foster homes where their needs can be met. These placements are supervised until the children are returned to their parents, placed with other relatives, reach eighteen (18) and are not in an educational/vocational training program, or reach age twenty-one (21) while completing an educational/vocational training program.
- DESCRIPTION
- Child protection agency.
- PHONE
- 362-5311 Fax: 362-3055
- ADDRESS
- 1306 North 19th Street, Monroe, LA 71201
- HOURS
- 8:00 am - 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday
- Crisis Line open 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Ouachita Parish Office of Family Support
- SERVICES
- Aid to Families with Dependent Children Program; Food Stamp Program; Project Independence Program, Transitional Assistance Program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children Child Care Program
- DESCRIPTION
- Provides equitably for the basic necessities of needy persons who are incapable of fully supporting themselves because they have dependent children. Promotes the general welfare of the Nation's population by raising the level of nutrition among low-income families.
- PHONE
- 362-5333 Fax: 362-3220
- ADDRESS
- 1306 N. 19th Street, Monroe, LA 71201