The Latest: Homeless in Orleans, mom, kids head for Ariz.

NEW ORLEANS – The Latest on a homeless New Orleans woman who is beginning a new life in Arizona with help from a non-profit group (all times local):

6:30 p.m.

April Coleman and her four children have been living in a shelter in New Orleans after her mother could no longer house them.

Now, she’s about to start a new life in Arizona.

She and her children boarded a Greyhound bus to Phoenix on Wednesday, with help from Grace at the Greenlight, a non-profit group that provides support for New Orleans’ homeless community. Coleman hopes there she can turn the temporary opportunities she found in New Orleans into permanent ones. Plus, she said, she’ll have family support — something she said was missing in New Orleans, her hometown.

Grace at the Greenlight has helped New Orleans reduce its homeless population, often by finding people opportunities in other cities.

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1 p.m.

April Coleman and her four children have been living in a shelter in New Orleans after her mother could no longer house them.

Now, she’s getting a chance to get out of a shelter and into a home.

She and her children board a Greyhound bus later Wednesday to Phoenix, Arizona, with help from Grace at the Greenlight, a non-profit group that provides support for New Orleans’ homeless community. Coleman hopes there she can turn the temporary opportunities she found in New Orleans into permanent ones. Plus, she said, she’ll have family support — something she said was missing in New Orleans, her hometown.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Coleman says she’s moving in with a cousin who tells her the job opportunities there are great, unlike in New Orleans where she says she’s needed up to three jobs just to make it.