Valerie's House Competitors

The mission of the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay is to ensure that no one in our community has to face crisis alone. We are here 24 hours a day, 365 days a year as the community’s gateway to help, hope and healing. We offer a range of services designed to meet community needs: • Suicide prevention and support through 988 and additional lines • Connection to social services and community resources through 211 and additional lines • Sexual assault exams and advocacy • Trauma counseling • Support for kids and families coping with behavioral, emotional, or mental health challenges through Success 4 Kids & Families • Help for veterans at 1-844-MyFLVet • Specialized services for youth 16-25 • Support for first responders at 1-866-4FL-HERO • Behavioral and medical transportation services through TransCare • Connections to substance recovery resources • Travelers Aid desk at Tampa International Airport For more information about the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay, please visit www.crisiscenter.com

Comfort Zone provides grieving children with a voice, a place, and a community in which to heal, grow, and lead more fulfilling lives. Comfort Zone Camp is a nonprofit 501(c)3 bereavement organization that transforms the lives of children who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling, or primary caregiver. Our programs are free of charge and include confidence building activities and age-based support groups that break the emotional isolation grief often brings. Comfort Zone’s programs are offered to children ages 7-17, and their families for the family programs. We also offer young adult programs for 18-25 year olds. Held year-round across the country, our primary locations are California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina and Virginia (HQ). We also partner with organizations to serve their local or specific communities through our Partnership and Community by Design Programs. To learn more about our programs, visit our web page at http://www.comfortzonecamp.org.

The mission of The Compassionate Friends: When a child dies, at any age, the family suffers intense pain and may feel hopeless and isolated. The Compassionate Friends provides highly personal comfort, hope, and support to every family experiencing the death of a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, or a grandchild, and helps others better assist the grieving family. The Compassionate Friends was founded over 40 years ago when a chaplain at the Warwickshire Hospital in England brought together two sets of grieving parents and realized that the support they gave each other was better than anything he, as a chaplain, could ever say or provide. Meeting around a kitchen table, the Lawleys and the Hendersons were joined by a bereaved mother and the chaplain, Simon Stephens, and The Society of the Compassionate Friends was born. The Compassionate Friends jumped across the ocean and was established in the United States and incorporated in 1978 in Illinois. Each chapter, along with the supporting National Office, is committed to helping every bereaved parent, sibling, or grandparent who may walk through our doors or contact us. Today TCF has nearly 600 chapters serving all 50 states plus Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and Guam, that offer friendship, understanding, and hope to bereaved parents, siblings, grandparents, and other family members during the natural grieving process after a child has died. Around the world more than 30 countries have a Compassionate Friends presence, encircling the globe with support so desperately needed when the worst has happened.