Bienville, Claiborne, & Jackson Parish CASA

Ministries at Bienville, Claiborne, & Jackson Parish CASA

• Court Appointed Special Advocates
• Youth Empowerment Center
• GEMS & GENTS Mentoring
• JUMPSTART
• Teen Court
• Conflict Resolution
• Families in Need of Services
• Truancy Assessment Service Center

The community around Bienville, Claiborne, & Jackson Parish CASA

In the few miles around this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

• Child Poverty: 62.3% (43.5–81.1%)
• Obesity: 50.3%
• Poverty Rate: 40.4% (29.6–51.3%)
• Food Insecurity: 40.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 27.1%
• Diabetes: 24.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.9%
• Social Isolation: 39.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
• Transportation Barriers: 19.3%
• Depression: 25.1%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Bienville, Claiborne, & Jackson Parish CASA

• New Beginnings Ministries — 0.1 mi away
• First Methodist Church of Arcadia — 0.1 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Arcadia — 0.2 mi away
• First Pentecostal Church of Arcadia — 0.3 mi away
• New Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
• Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
• Trinity Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• New Hebron Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
• Mt. Calvary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Shreveport, LA