TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida has created a Web site to help residents of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi displaced by Hurricane Katrina find information on storm recovery and relief.

The site now available at www.myflorida.com details the services available for the estimated thousands of evacuees in Florida. It also has direct access to relief organizations for donating supplies, services and money.

The site includes information on finding temporary housing, job assistance, enrolling displaced students in schools and replacing a driver license.

It also has information on crisis counseling, food stamps, medical assistance and residential placements for persons with disabilities.

Schools To Hire Evacuated Teachers

The Florida Department of Education is arranging to hire evacuated teachers from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to teach in Florida schools.

Florida Education Commissioner John Winn says school districts are acting quickly to hire teachers who can't go home because of damage from Hurricane Katrina.

Winn estimates that hundreds of teachers from the Gulf Coast are in Florida now, living with friends or relatives.

He says Florida wants to make it as easy as possible for those teachers to find jobs.

The state is waiving the cost of the teacher certification exam, but Winn says Florida is not relaxing its teaching standards for the evacuees. He says teachers who fulfilled comparable certification requirements in other states are welcome to teach in Florida.

Floridians aid Hurricane Victims

Calls are pouring in to a Florida hot line from people who want to donate to victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Volunteer Florida is urging donors to offer only necessary items such as money, water and non-perishable, ready-to-eat food. A spokeswoman says clothes and household goods are not needed because sorting, packing and transporting them complicates relief efforts.

Water, breakfast bars, cereal, peanut butter, jelly, crackers, and pop-top canned items are welcome. The spokeswoman says the best gift is a financial contribution of any amount.

Volunteer America's Florida hotline is 1-800-354-3571. Donations can also be made at www.volunteerflorida.org.

State Offers Driver's Licenses To Evacuees

Florida plans to issue driver's licenses and identification cards to people from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama who fled Hurricane Katrina.

A spokesman for the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles says the state has safeguards in place to make sure driver's licenses and ID cards only go to eligible people.

Some evacuees don't have any form of identification and that's making it tougher for them to get the help they need.

Officials say the newcomers can visit any driver's license office in Florida to get free identification cards. Driver's licenses cost $20.