Kevin Guillory, the office coordinator for the LEED Center, said the Accelerate Northside program helped create a community of businesses in the area. He said there are plans to provide Accelerate Northside again in the fall, and he said the LEED Center is looking to hold similar programs in all of Acadiana s parishes. There are many people trying to start a business or that have a business idea, and I feel like that program allowed them to see that they were not the only ones, Guillory said. Now, even a few months later, we re still seeing people that are supporting each other s businesses.
Nonprofit aims to help children aging out of foster care system
Nonprofit helps children aging out of foster system 04/28/2021
and last updated 2021-04-28 20:52:01-04
LAFAYETTE, La. â An Acadiana organization called Family Connection is aiming to help kids who are aging out of the foster care system successfully get on their feet.
The transitional housing program will help those between the ages of 16 and 21 find a job, get into school, and even teach them how to budget.
Family Connection works with various groups like Habitat for Humanity, SLCC, Arch of Acadiana, and LPSS, which refer children to the nonprofit.
Once a child is referred, Family Connection begins a screening process, pairs them with a case manager, and puts together a team based on the child s needs.
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Supporters erupted in applause Friday as a New Orleans judge acquitted Catina Curley of second-degree murder in the killing of her husband, finding that the fatal shooting in 2005 was a justified act of self-defense.
Criminal District Court Judge Arthur Hunter said âoverwhelming evidenceâ showed the shooting was the product of years of abuse that Curley suffered before killing her husband Renaldo inside their New Orleans East home, four months before Hurricane Katrina.
Curley spent 10 years and 11 months locked up before the Supreme Court threw out her conviction and ordered a retrial last year, finding that her original trial attorney should have called experts on battered woman syndrome.