Welcome!
The guide has been compiled with the intention of increasing public access to services that are free or low-cost in the New Orleans area. Most listings are for services located in Orleans & Jefferson parishes, although select state and nationwide services have also been included.
Listed resources were contacted by phone and asked to verify the information listed. Organizations were specifically and intentionally asked about funding options for uninsured patients, the availability of Spanish translation services, and their ability to provide services for transgender and non-binary patients. Available transgender and non-binary services have been incorporated throughout and can also be found in a dedicated section of this guide.
This guide is a 2024 update based on information compiled by staff and volunteers for the REACH NOLA/Common Ground Health Clinic Community Resource Guide from 2006-14, and working directly from the 2023 edition, which sourced information compiled by volunteers at the Center for Ethical Living & Social Justice Renewal, as well as the Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming NOLA Resource Guide produced by Dr. Jennifer Glick and Dr. Robin Ivester.
This edition has been produced in partnership with Imagine Water Works as a public service by volunteer community members and is available free of charge to all people.
Download a free copy for printing here.
This version saves paper and can be folded into a booklet. We encourage people and organizations to print your own copies as needed.
Copies should remain unedited. Please do not add logos or remove the front page, credit pages, resource pages, or ISBN#.
If you are an organization and would like to partner with us to print copies of your own with your logo and can share printing costs, email klie@imaginewaterworks.org.
Acknowledgements:
Many people did the work of making this edition of the resource guide possible!
Thanks to the entire Imagine Water Works team for partnering on this project and hosting our volunteers so hospitably, to Antigravity and Imagine Water Works for digital distro, and to many New Orleanians committed to community care and harm reduction, including but not limited to: Tucker Barker, Klie Kliebert, Brianna Lentz, Elizabeth Gelvin, Walesa Kanarek, Angelique Thomas, Kyle Devries, everyone who came out to our volunteer call-a-thons, and even more lovely folks who wish to remain anonymous, and probably you.
Finally, love and appreciation to Harriet Burbeck for the cover art. Beauty matters!
Contact us with questions, additions, requests, and offers to volunteer or collaborate:
Coleen Murphy, coordinating organizer, at NOLAresourceguide@gmail.com