LSU Post-Hurricane Katrina

Community Survey

Welcome Volunteers!

Thank you for helping New Orleans’ recovery!

And thank you for helping with this survey.

• It will help New Orleans churches and community organizations help their members, and it will aid research that helps us all understand how to respond to disasters better.

• It will help you make personal contact with the residents you're working with and understand what they’ve gone through and how they feel.

You can do the interviews in three different settings –

1. Before you come to New Orleans. We suggest you organize an afternoon/evening team meeting in your own hometown. You will practice the survey with each other, and then do an interview with a New Orleans resident on the phone. This will give you a preview of conditions before you come, and good feel for the people you’ll work with.

2. While you’re in New Orleans, as part of your volunteer work. Doing the interviews will put you in direct contact with residents and help you learn about their experiences and needs, while helping their organizations.

3. When you go back home, after your volunteer time in New Orleans. You can stay active, stay in touch with the residents, and keep helping their churches and organizations.

Very important! Please read through the materials on the following web pages before you begin.

o (Note: you can download all the needed materials in printable form here.)

When you’re ready to go to the next step –

1. Before you come to New Orleans. Continue here.

2. While you’re in New Orleans. Continue here.

3. After you go back home. Continue here.