Listen to Kids, a project of The Legacy School, Inc.
About this Organization
LTK has impacted over 1,000 kids in the New Orleans area since we started in 2018.
Our partnerships with local nonprofits like Covenant House, New Orleans Child Advocacy Center (NOCAC), Boys' Hope/Girls' Hope, and Orleans Juvenile Court allow us to get physical needs to kids who are suffering. These agencies often don't have the budget for personalized items that foster mental health and healing, like art supplies, music, books, meditation instruction, and aromatherapy supplies. Sometimes the needs are much more basic, like clothing. Often, teen victims of human trafficking pass through NOCAC with only the soiled clothes on their backs. The opportunity to get a new piece of clothing that fits them & comes with no strings attached can open them up to healing.
Once we've helped a kid to find some calm through satiated needs, we hope to be able to offer them a Counseling Scholarship. Our ability to bring these kids to professional help depends on three things:
1) our funding
2) transportation needs
3) available, trained counselors
We're addressing item #3 by setting aside some funding to help pay for PTSD and child-focused training courses for local counselors.
Our partnerships with local nonprofits like Covenant House, New Orleans Child Advocacy Center (NOCAC), Boys' Hope/Girls' Hope, and Orleans Juvenile Court allow us to get physical needs to kids who are suffering. These agencies often don't have the budget for personalized items that foster mental health and healing, like art supplies, music, books, meditation instruction, and aromatherapy supplies. Sometimes the needs are much more basic, like clothing. Often, teen victims of human trafficking pass through NOCAC with only the soiled clothes on their backs. The opportunity to get a new piece of clothing that fits them & comes with no strings attached can open them up to healing.
Once we've helped a kid to find some calm through satiated needs, we hope to be able to offer them a Counseling Scholarship. Our ability to bring these kids to professional help depends on three things:
1) our funding
2) transportation needs
3) available, trained counselors
We're addressing item #3 by setting aside some funding to help pay for PTSD and child-focused training courses for local counselors.
