Bus Tours During HPLS

As part of this year's HPLS, we will have bus tours for attendees to see the devastation first hand.

Katrina Devastation Bus Tours of New Orleans Communities
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Katrina Devastation Tours of the New Orleans Metropolitan Area will be offered to participants of the HPLS Conference. This tour will take you on an approximately two hour journey of the city. This tour will give you a first hand view of the vast expanse of destruction the City of New Orleans suffered. You will also appreciate the recovery that is taking place. We will start from the Hilton Riverside Hotel and visit the Hospital District where you will see the Medical Center of Louisiana - New Orleans Charity Hospital - closed since Katrina devastated New Orleans on August 29, 2005. We will go up Carrollton Avenue, visiting some of the old neighborhoods that were flooded, through City Park and on to the 17th Street Canal where one of the breaches of the levee system occurred - flooding the Lakeview neighborhood. From there, we will head east - visiting the second breach of the levee system at the London Street Canal, through the Gentilly neighborhood and then south toward the upper and lower Ninth Ward, where the levee breach on the Industrial Canal flooded and destroyed the area. We will then return to the Hilton Riverside Hotel, finalizing our journey. If you signed up for the Bus Tour Institute (below) do not sign up for this tour as they will be almost identical.

Host Committee New Orleans Bus Tour Institute
Monday, May 21, 2007 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
The Host Committee Institute will take place on a tour bus that will travel to areas impacted by Hurricane Katrina and recent tornadoes. This session will include discussions on how agencies and outreach staff have reintroduced themselves to the changing communities; reprioritized populations and outreach areas; adjusted outreach protocols to address community changes; and developed a collaborative to coordinate outreach and counseling and testing activities in New Orleans. Participants will be asked to share decisions they would use in the areas explored; review how the local community made decisions; and then apply them to their own areas. The institute will be offered in English and Spanish. If you signed up for the Devastation Bus Tour (above) do not sign up for this Institute as they will be almost identical.

Please go to to register for these tours. Space is limited. You must register in advance. There will be a tour bus in Spanish.