Protect the Programs That Keep New Orleans Safe

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Protect the Programs That Keep New Orleans Safe

Everyone in New Orleans deserves to thrive. A thriving community is a healthy and safe community. To have a healthy and safe community, we need to invest in social services for everyone, especially our youth and marginalized folks.

On September 22, the Moreno administration proposed a budget for 2027 with huge cuts to social services. Given the need to close a $100 million budget deficit, we expected there would be cuts, but we did not expect to see such major reductions (over $12 million) in essential services. The proposed budget cuts crucial services for youth, mothers, babies, people without homes, and folks who are experiencing mental health crises. The proposed budget cuts huge percentages of already beleaguered and underfunded departments like NOHHS and OCD while sparing larger departments from comparable cuts (NOPD).

Closing the low-barrier shelter, defunding the right to counsel, and cutting NOHHS’s budget by more than half reduces and eliminates support people can’t live without, which means more people, especially women and children, will needlessly die and rates of violence will increase.

The city can explore alternative ways to close the budget gap by finding inefficiencies in larger departments (i.e. reducing police overtime, reducing the jail populations, and ending surveillance contracts), but we cannot afford to cut social services.

These are the proposed cuts we cannot tolerate:

Low Barrier Shelter Operations
Right To Counsel
YouthForce NOLA Summer Program
Maternal Health Support (Family Connects)
Mobile Crisis Intervention Unit
Centers for Restorative Approaches (School-based Violence Prevention)
Economic Development Planning
Workforce Development
Domestic Violence AIR Program
Juvenile Public Defender (LCCR)
On Scene Services (Civilian Traffic Response)
Orleans Public Defender
Juvenile Justice Intervention Center Youth Programming, Medical Services, & Necessary Equipment

Not when food, gas, and energy prices and poverty rates in our state are at all-time highs.

Restoring these funds will make New Orleans safer, healthier, and more resilient for years to come.

Don’t let them cut budget holes in New Orleans' social safety net. Send an email to your councilmember, urging them to protect our programs!

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New Orleans City Councilmembers

Subject: New Orleans can’t afford to lose its social services on November 19th

Message:

With a nationwide affordability crisis and the highest rate of poverty in the country, the people of New Orleans cannot afford to lose the progress it has made in housing, community safety, youth programming, and public health. We are the economic engine of the state and a shining beacon of culture on the world stage. But we can’t forget to support the people who make this city possible, and those people can’t afford to lose their support services. We cannot afford to lose the right to counsel, shelters, or community anti-violence programs. We can’t afford to abandon moms and babies, cut young people out of work and opportunity, or eliminate programs that make our schools safer. The city can save the money needed to restore the programs by reducing the jail population, allocating money saved from police overtime reductions, and/or ending contracts with surveillance companies. Restore funding to ALL these programs. Please fully fund to these critical programs in the 2027 Operating Budget: -Low Barrier Shelter Operations -Right To Counsel -YouthForce NOLA Summer Program -Maternal Health Support (Family Connects) -Mobile Crisis Intervention Unit -Centers for Restorative Approaches (School-based Violence Prevention) -Economic Development Planning -Workforce Development -Domestic Violence AIR Program -Juvenile Public Defender (LCCR) -Orleans Public Defender -Juvenile Justice Intervention Center Youth Programming, Medical Services, & Necessary Equipment

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