Affiliation: United Way available at St. Bernard Project

United Way Impact Partners At Work

St. Bernard Project, a United Way partner agency, is responding to the spill by expanding their mental health clinic to Lower St. Bernard and Plaquemines and creating jobs for fisherman through their Good Work Good Pay (GWGP) program. The Center for Wellness and Mental Health will have increased hours of operation and will attempt to hire local shrimpers and/or their spouses as community outreach workers and peer counselors. The GWGP program will hire, train and pay livable, union-level wages with full benefits to local fishermen affected by the oil spill (as well as other local under- and unemployed individuals and war veterans.)

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