Mercy Family Center

Together we can touch more lives. Save more lives.
And improve more lives.

Mercy Family Center

Together we can touch more lives. Save more lives.
And improve more lives.

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Who We Are

If you have any questions or would like more information about how your donations will be utilized in your community, don’t hesitate to get in touch with Pamela Fisher at Pamela.Fisher@Mercy.net or call 504.838.3239.

Our Foundation

When a young Irish woman named Catherine McAuley received an unexpected inheritance, she gave thanks to God and her benefactor. Catherine used those funds to open the first house of Mercy, serving impoverished women and children in Dublin.

Since 1992, Mercy Family Center (MFC) has consistently and creatively responded to the needs in the Greater New Orleans area by providing comprehensive, community-based mental health services for children, adolescents, adults and families. We need your support to help change lives and give hope to the underserved people in our community.

Catherine’s legacy lives on through the generous gifts of donors like you. Gifts to Mercy Family Center support uninsured and underinsured children and families in our community who need mental health care. That’s right. Every dollar you give advances health care right here at home.

Our Focus

Mercy Family Center Clinics
MFC has clinic locations in Metairie, Mandeville, and serves the entire Southeast LA region. Our highly-trained professional staff of psychiatrists, psychologists and licensed clinical social workers provides quality mental health assessment and intervention services, regardless of income level.

MFC treats over 4,000 patients with over 13,500 encounters annually, and has admitted over 400 children and 200 adults as new patients in the past twelve months. Over 40% of MFC’s services are Medicaid-funded, fee assisted or free.

Project Fleur-de-Lis™
Project Fleur-de-lis™ (PFDL), a Mercy Family Center project, is a school-based mental health program that provides support, individual and group interventions, training for children, families, educators, communities and members of the U.S. military who have been impacted by traumatic events such as violence, grief, and natural and man-made disasters. PFDL helps more than 5,000 children, families, and service women and men each year.

MFC and PFDL are nationally and internationally recognized as a resource for development of programs that assist communities and families in recovering from traumatic events and partners with 145 schools, encompassing over 30,000 students annually.

Thanks to donors like you:

was raised in support of our community in FY25

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Because of your generosity, our Foundation continues to make a lasting difference for Mercy’s patients, programs and services. In FY25, you helped us raise more than $1 million to improve the health of our community. Thanks to you, we were ready to meet urgent needs with care and compassion.

Your Impact

Every year, lives are changed because donors like you stepped forward to give. This snapshot illustrates some of Mercy’s most critical fundraising initiatives that will benefit not only our patients and their families, but also our caregivers and our community.

Patient Assistance | $000,000,000

Capital Improvements |$000,000,000

Program/Service Enhancements | $000,000,000

Community Highlights

Provided 240 children in crisis with free mental health care

Trained 1,000 schools, community organizations and health care providers in suicide prevention

Supported 350 people after natural disasters and incidents of community violence

Alyssa's Story

When Alyssa was just 13, she felt her world was crumbling. Living with high-functioning autism, struggling to make friends, and coping with the trauma of her father’s drug abuse and domestic violence, her self-esteem hit rock bottom. That year, she experienced her first major depressive episode and attempted to take her own life.

After time in a psychiatric hospital, Alyssa came to Mercy Family Center in 2018. At first, she was quiet and guarded. But slowly, with the compassion of therapist John Hill and psychiatrist Dr. Kim Kavanagh, Alyssa began to heal. John became a trusted friend, learning about her hobbies and dreams. Dr. Kavanagh provided therapy and medication support, and taught Alyssa’s mom how to advocate for her in school.

Over the years, Alyssa transformed from a scared, withdrawn teen into a confident young woman. Now 19, she’s a freshman at Nicholls State University, studying education so she can help children with disabilities.

“I’ve grown so much as a person, mentally, physically and emotionally,” Alyssa says. “That’s all thanks to Mercy, Dr. Kavanagh and John Hill.”

Your generosity makes stories like Alyssa’s possible. Because of our donors, uninsured and underinsured children and families can receive the mental health care services they need.