Our services restore individuals' dignity by teaching them employable skills, communication skills, coping skills & life skills, in an effort to help them rebuild their lives to self-sufficiency and for more than nineteen years the Acadiana Outreach Center has served the Acadiana region by providing poor and homeless citizens with critical services that are not a “hand-out” but rather a “hand-up” designed to empower from fear, despair, and hopelessness to a future with possibilities.

We Provide a Full Continuum of Care:

• Basic Services: free clothing & food, transitional shelter.

• Case Management: Comprehensively assessing all clients’ needs, developing an action plan, helping families access housing, employment, and existing government, church, & nonprofit services, then providing unmet needs funding to fill gaps once other options are exhausted.

• Empowerment & Enrichment: Substance abuse recovery counseling, mental health counseling, life skills training to remove barriers to self-sufficiency.