NEW ORLEANS HEALING CENTER OPENS TO SERVE

The New Orleans Healing Center is unique among community centers, in that it was specially created to help, heal, and empower surrounding neighborhoods on a civic, social, economic, environmental, intellectual, and spiritual level.

At its core, it consists of a cooperative grocery, street university, yoga studio, green business incubator, healing arts collective, performance theater, interfaith center, and organic food restaurant. But more importantly, these and other carefully selected community-focused programs, services, and activities are designed to help revitalize and restore neighborhoods and bring them together.

Much more than just a physical building, the New Orleans Healing Center is a pioneering concept that provides both the framework and guidance for individuals and communities to help each other and themselves.

Tonight, the New Orleans Healing Center will present the Neighborhood Security Summit. Participants to include Commander Christopher Goodly, NOPD 5th District; Robert McClintic, Guardian Angels Regional Director; and neighborhood association leaders. The public is invited to attend and help develop crime reduction programs for the St. Claude, St. Roch, Marigny, and Bywater neighborhoods. Refreshments and snacks will be available.

Thursday, June 2, 2011, 5:30 to 7:30 pm

New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Avenue

The New Orleans Healing Center will present the NOPD 5th District, Guardian Angels, and neighborhood association leaders in a constructive problem-solving session on Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 5:30 pm to help make the St. Claude, St. Roch, Marigny, and Bywater neighborhoods safer places to live. This Neighborhood Security Summit, to be held at the New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Avenue, will give neighbors a chance to meet their NOPD 5th District and Guardian Angels crime-fighting partners, present positive ideas on reducing crime, then break into small groups to develop action plans for their neighborhoods. Participants will be asked to play key roles in implementing the crime reduction plans developed at this meeting.

For more information about the Neighborhood Security Summit or the New Orleans Healing Center, contact Mark Huber, Administrative Director, at (504) 940-1130 or mark@neworleanshealingcenter.org
 

BEAUTIFY ST. ROCH

Do Good & Feel Great

Join your neighbors and the City of New Orleans in Fight the Blight Day.

Show up Saturday morning at Sampson/St. Roch Park to receive your assignments.

Saturday, June 4th

10 am—1 pm

You are invited to join fellow residents clean up the neighborhood and clear lots with the support of the City of New Orleans. To volunteer or if you have questions, please contact Ray Bolling rjbolling@nola.gov 504-906-0066
Traci Taylor ttaylor@handsonneworleans.org 504-307-7394.

NOPD IMPLEMENTS NEW MAPPING SYSTEM

Crime mapping changes for an updated version of calls for service to the New Orleans Police Department.

Please visit NOPD’s website: http://www.nola.gov/GOVERNMENT/NOPD/. There you can click on the box that reads “Crime Maps”, enter a New Orleans address (such as your home address) and scrutinize the map that is then provided. The map will show crimes that have been called in (calls for service)/ not confirmed, reported and documented by the NOPD within a radius around the address entered.

Each icon on the map represents a different crime that was recently called in to 911 or 821-2222 in that area- including armed robberies, residential burglaries, car thefts, shots fired etc. The information that’s provided to “Crime Maps” comes directly from the New Orleans Police Department’s calls for service from all 8 of the city’s districts.

“Crime Mapping” allows New Orleans residents to pan between neighborhoods and compare crime activity. It helps keep citizens well-informed with the most up-to-date crime data available in their community. It also enables residents to discuss such statistics in community meetings aimed at fighting crime.