"Friendship Bench New Orleans (FB-NOLA) has met with great success garnering community support and developing partnership through which our work will be done.  We were selected as the primary goal of the United Way Mental Health Collaborative work to address their designated mental health dessert in New Orleans East, Lower 9th Ward, Holy Cross neighborhoods. This partnership affords us numerous opportunities  for growing FB-NOLA through other partnerships such as with the Ochsner Xavier University Health Equity Research."

- Jacqueline H. Smith, LCSW, BACS, Friendship Bench-New Orleans (FB-NOLA)  Program Manager.