November 19, 2013
By Alex Woodward
Two glass doors (click here) and an elevator. Those are the only barriers Mary Claire Landry wants families to see between the chronic violence at home and resources Landry and dozens of others make available to them inside the New Orleans Family Justice Center (FJC).
A few blocks from the Superdome and a few floors above the Amtrak and Greyhound station, security buzzes people in from the building's lobby through a second set of doors and up an elevator. The FJC office overlooks the U.S. Postal Service Tower's side drive on Loyola Avenue, where the sound of trucks being loaded rumbles over the faint ringtones from FJC desk phones. FJC staff members answer with a hushed, calm series of questions: Where are you? When did that happen? Did you call the police?
Landry, FJC's executive director, points out the offices that circle the lobby: legal services, a large conference room, children's services, mental health counselors, domestic violence detectives from the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) and her office.
"It just takes a tremendous amount of effort to let people know what we have here," Landry says....
To begin with Senator Landrieu has a long history of serving in government. And she has seen presidents come and has seen presidents go and in no way can be connected to any particular President as a weak representative for Louisiana.
She knows Louisiana well and advocates for the people repeatedly, bringing resources to them.
Mary Landrieu has worked the hardest of any Louisiana's elected officials to bring services and notable change for women, children and families:
- May 1999 - Voted no on killing restrictions on violent videos to minors
- 1998 - she wrote a book "Mothers Make Good Senators, too."
- August 2000 - Give parents tools to balance work and family
- April 2003 - Small business loans for child care businesses.
- March 2008 - Supports adoption and foster care reform
- March 2008 - Called for a White House Conference on Children and Youth
- January 2013 - More funding and services for victims on domestic violence.
To begin with Senator Landrieu has a long history of serving in government. And she has seen presidents come and has seen presidents go and in no way can be connected to any particular President as a weak representative for Louisiana.
She knows Louisiana well and advocates for the people repeatedly, bringing resources to them.
Mary Landrieu has worked the hardest of any Louisiana's elected officials to bring services and notable change for women, children and families:
- May 1999 - Voted no on killing restrictions on violent videos to minors
- 1998 - she wrote a book "Mothers Make Good Senators, too."
- August 2000 - Give parents tools to balance work and family
- April 2003 - Small business loans for child care businesses.
- March 2008 - Supports adoption and foster care reform
- March 2008 - Called for a White House Conference on Children and Youth
- January 2013 - More funding and services for victims on domestic violence.
