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Tools
Association for Enterprise Opportunity: A Helping Hand
Web site
Posts information about how individuals can support microenterprise development organizations and
entrepreneurs affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita through donations
and resources.
CMS: Hurricane Information
Web site
Provides a list of resources including questions & answers regarding Hurricane Katrina.
DisasterHelp
Web site
Helps users find information and services across a wide range of relevant disaster management offerings. Part of a larger initiative aimed at greatly enhanced disaster management on an interagency and intergovernmental basis.
Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response Tools and Resources
Web site
Tools and resources for emergency responders, State and local officials, medical personnel, hospitals, and health systems for hurricane response and recovery. Resources may also be applicable in responding to other types of disasters.
Farmers' Legal Action Group: Disaster Assistance
Web site
Includes disaster assistance information available from FLAG and other organizations.
FEMA: Hurricane Katrina Information
Web site
Information about how to apply for assistance and additional resources.
Health Care and Hurricane Katrina
Web site
Includes resources related to an ongoing effort to monitor and study the health coverage and needs of Hurricane Katrina victims.
Help for Hurricane Victims: Information on Tax Relief, Charitable Issues
Web site
The Internal Revenue Service is working to provide appropriate relief and assistance to victims of Hurricanes. If you are a hurricane victim and need help with tax matters, please call 1-866-562-5227.
Housing Assistance Council: Hurricane Katrina Information
Web site
Provides information and referral services to help rural communities identify the tools and resources needed to recover from this disaster.
Hurricane Katrina Recovery Resources from Rural Development
Web site
Information for residents who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Recovery Assistance
Web site
Includes information on National Emergency Grants, Disaster Unemployment Assistance, Occupational Safety and Health and the Employee Benefits Security Administration.
Hurricane Recovery Job Connection
Web site
Connects workers needing jobs with employers. Individuals looking for work and the opportunity to rebuild their lives, either in hurricane impacted areas or in new locations, can connect with employers, for either permanent jobs or for jobs that are focused on cleanup and recovery.
Katrina Recovery
Web site
A cooperative initiative of the U.S. Government to provide disaster assistance for individuals in need from hurricane affected states. Contact information for federal and state agencies as well as private organizations is listed.
KatrinaHealth.org
Web site
An online service to help individuals affected by Hurricane Katrina work with their health professionals to gain access to their electronic prescription medication records.
MedlinePlus: Natural Disasters
Web site
News, publications and resources related to natural disasters, preparedness and response.
NCTSN: Hurricane Tools and Links
Web site
Provides information about coping with disasters for children, parents, health professionals, educators, relief workers and others.
Research & Resources for Rebuilding
Web site
A list of relevant publications and ordinances to assist officials, builder/developers, and others involved in the Gulf Coast hurricane recovery efforts. This special package contains publications and other materials that can help local officials and rebuilding teams in their efforts to develop sound, affordable housing that can be produced relatively quickly.
Rural to Rural: Helping Rural Schools and Communities Recover Together
Web site
Identifies particular schools in specific rural communities that suffered during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, learn about their losses, find out what they need, and respond.
Funding
Beyond Words: The Dollar General School Library Relief Program
Benefits public school libraries recovering from major disasters. The fund provides grants for books, media and/or equipment that support learning in a school library environment.
Komen Foundation Patient Services Grants
Funds to assist not-for-profit institutions and providers of breast cancer care to maintain the continuum of services to breast cancer patients and breast cancer survivors impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and/or Rita.
Inactive Funding
Inactive Funding Opportunities -
Lists additional funding programs for this topic that are not currently accepting applications. Programs that are inactive may be offered again in the future.
Regulations, Forms & Other Useful Documents
Comparison of the Seventeen Approved Katrina Waivers
Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
Updates a summary and comparison of seventeen states' approved Medicaid waivers related to Hurricane Katrina evacuees.
Date: 01 / 2006
Digest Special Installment: RDOs Respond to Katrina
Author(s): Laurie Thompson, Zanetta Doyle, Kelly Novak
Sponsoring organization: National Association of Development Organizations
Describes that regional development organizations were poised to help recovery efforts in their own regions as well as in neighboring regions. In some cases, regional development organizations several states away from the hurricane have provided relief.
Date: 09 / 2005
Disaster Preparedness: Preliminary Observations on the Evacuation of Vulnerable Populations due to Hurricanes and Other Disasters
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
Discusses challenges faced by hospital and nursing home administrators that are related to hurricane evacuations, federal program that supports the evacuation of patients needing hospital care and nursing home residents, and challenges states and localities face in preparing for and carrying out the evacuation of transportation-disadvantaged populations.
Date: 05 / 2006
Displaced by Hurricane Katrina: Issues and Options for Medicare Beneficiaries
Author(s): Nora Super, Brian Biles
Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
Identifies issues and challenges for individuals on Medicare affected by the hurricane and offers options for addressing these problems. This issue brief focuses on subgroups of the Medicare population, including beneficiaries in traditional Medicare, those enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, and dual eligibles and nursing home residents.
Date: 11 / 2005
Giving Voice to the People of New Orleans: The Kaiser Post-Katrina Baseline Survey
Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
Addresses a house-to-house survey of people living in the New Orleans area which examines the ongoing struggles of residents seeking to recover from the Hurricane Katrina disaster, including a detailed look at differences in views and experiences by race.
Date: 05 / 2007
Help After a Disaster: Applicant's Guide to the Individuals & Households Program
Sponsoring organization: Federal Emergency Management Agency
This program guide provides information about the Individuals and Households Program (IHP) and explains how to apply. The IHP provides money and services to people in disaster areas when losses are not covered by insurance and property has been damaged or destroyed. Designed to help individuals with critical expenses. Guide is available in Spanish and English.
Date: 05 / 2005
Hurricane Katrina: Allocation and Use of $2 Billion for Medicaid and Other Health Care Needs
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
Describes health care costs related to Hurricane Katrina. In February 2006, the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 appropriated $2 billion for certain health care costs related to Hurricane Katrina through Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
Date: 02 / 2007
Hurricane Katrina: Health Impacts in Louisiana and the Federal Response to the Loss of Health Coverage
Author(s): Marsha Lillie-Blanton
Discusses Hurricane Katrina's impact on health and human services.
Date: 01 / 2006
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Reflection: Looking Back While Moving Forward
Sponsoring organization: Foundation for the Mid-South
Concentrates on the status of the region a year after Katrina and Rita hammered the Mid South Gulf States. The issue focuses on Foundation for the Mid South's views of the recovery effort, the insights of leaders from the region, and keeping the disasters in the public's attention.
Date: 08 / 2006
Picking Up the Pieces: Restoring Rural Housing and Communities after Hurricane Katrina
Sponsoring organization: Housing Assistance Council
The guide explains the federal and state temporary and long term resources for rebuilding housing after Hurricane Katrina, and how to find local assistance. Print copies are available free for victims and community organizations in affected areas from Luz Rosas, 202-842-8600 or luz@ruralhome.org
Date: 09 / 2005
Rural People, Rural Places: The Hidden Costs of Hurricane Katrina
Author(s): Rogelio Saenz, Walter G. Peacock
Sponsoring organization: Rural Sociological Society
Shows how the characteristics of rural Gulf Coast families place them at higher risks during natural disasters and make them far less able to recover from such disasters.
Date: 2006
Organizations
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Federal government
Responsible for responding to, planning for, recovering from and mitigating against disasters. Part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Foundation for the Mid-South
Nonprofit/Foundation
Regional development foundation that brings people together, strengthens communities, and multiplies resources.
Rural Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
Nonprofit/Foundation
Provides grants, loans and equity investments to community development corporations (CDCs) for neighborhood redevelopment.
Volunteers of America Southeast (VOASE)
Nonprofit/Foundation
Provides programs and opportunities for individual and community involvement, including a faith-based and community resource center. Works to serve people along the Alabama-Mississippi Gulf Coast who are hungry, homeless, and fighting for survival since Hurricane Katrina. Offers programs for children, chronic mental illness, hard of hearing, community enhancement, elderly, housing, and substance abuse.
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