New Orleans

AVODAH Placement Organizations

This is not the full or final list of potential positions available. Position and placement descriptions vary from year to year.

• Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC) promotes fair competition throughout the housing marketplace, including rental, sales, lending and insurance. GNOFHAC is dedicated to fighting housing discrimination not only because it is illegal but also because it is a divisive force that perpetuates poverty, segregation, ignorance, fear, and hatred. AVODAH provides an Outreach Assistant to GNOFHAC. 

• Innocence Project (IPNO) and Resurrection After Exoneration (RAE) promote and sustain a network of support among the formerly incarcerated, reconnect them to the community and help provide access to educational opportunities and counseling. AVODAH provides an Exoneree Advocate to IPNO/RAE. 
• Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative provides healthy and energy efficient affordable housing opportunities for residents of the Central City neighborhood by building new construction homes and rehabilitating existing structures. AVODAH provides an Assistant Neighborhood Coordinator at Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative.
• Juvenile Regional Services (JRS), the only freestanding juvenile defense office in the country, represents all indigent children accused of delinquency and who are caught up in Families in Need of Services proceedings in Orleans Parish. The staff also works with children on issues like access to education, social services, mental health care and housing. AVODAH provides a Youth Advocate to JRS.
• Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools (Rethink) supports and empowers young people to use their experiences, their voices and their leadership to create positive change in their schools and in their world. AVODAH provides a Community Organizer/Program Facilitator to Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools.
• New Orleans Women's Shelter is a facility for women and children in the Upper 9th Ward of New Orleans that focuses on helping women stabilize, obtain proper medical treatment and other locally available social services, enroll children into school and day care, register for job training classes, secure employment, locate affordable permanent housing and move on to successful independent living. AVODAH provides a Shelter Assistant to New Orleans Women's Shelter.
• Orleans Public Defenders provides legal services to indigent defendants and to client-centered representation that respects the humanity and dignity of those accused of crimes. AVODAH provides a Re-entry Specialist to Orleans Public Defenders.
• Reach NOLA seeks to improve health equity, community health and access to quality health care in New Orleans through partnered programs, services and research. AVODAH provides a Community Outreach Coordinator to REACH NOLA.
• Rebuilding Together New Orleans (RTNO) allows low-income families in communities across the country to live in warmth, safety, and dignity by restoring homes at no cost to the homeowner. AVODAH provides an Intake Assistant to RTNO.
• Tulane Community Health Center at Covenant House works to deliver highly accessible health services within the context of a neighborhood life center, develop innovative and replicable models of care applicable to the health needs of underserved populations, and collaborate with educational institutions and non-profit partners to provide health professional training opportunities. AVODAH provides a Community Coordinator to Tulane Community Health Center at Covenant House.