Advocacy Center

The Advocacy Center is a non-profit corporation that serves people with disabilities in every parish of Louisiana. With four offices in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, and Lafayette, the Advocacy Center provides information, and referral, and possibly legal repesentation, on legal issues relation to disability, including: special education, legal status, public, community integration, institutional rights, employment and rehabilitation, and abuse/neglect. Advocacy Center also provides ombudsman and advocacy services for people living in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, group home psychiatric hospitals, and child residential facilities.