Blessings on SF as we close out 2020! What a year!

Hi Noel and Karissa! I saw your "ad" on Facebook while looking for quality organizations to support today. Thank you for what you are doing! Stephanie (Gerig) Hentze

Thank you for all that you do!

I am the wife of a recently retired police chief in the Seattle metro area. His 31 years in law enfocement included working in Los Angeles and Washington state. He retired before covid and social unrest occurred and it was difficult for him to NOT lead in the midst of a pandemic and social unrest. Instead he watched with great angst from afar and we prayed for our country. The video on your website was spot on with regard to the trials first responders (especially good cops) and their families are enduring. I have been researching and studying neurology for 15 years. This includes trauma and Interpersonal Neurobiology (the study of the brain works within relationships). Many Law enforcement officers experience chronic trauma in higher crime areas and with the hatred of law enforcement, even smaller departments in low crime neighborhoods are experiencing some chronic trauma. Funds have been allotted to research chronic trauma in childhood abuse victims, spousal abuse victims and soldiers, but not to law enforcement officers. The affects of chronic trauma include addiction, aggression, relationship issues, depression and suicide. Until legislators, city managers, police chiefs & upper management and mental health/drs realize chronic trauma is destroying the lives of law enforcement officers, which then affects the cities and citizens they work, this will not end. Discussing, defining, teaching, and training state, city and law enforcement executives AND officers is imperative and necessary. This includes informing them of: - the difference between chronic trauma vs. acute trauma, -the affects of chronic & acute trauma, -how to spot those that are suffering, which is MOST of them, -how to process unprocessed trauma on a daily basis, -the need for mandatory mental health evaluations for every officer by a TRAUMA specialist, and -HONORING an officer by helping them heal and if that results in early retirement, then so be it. It should be normal and customary protocol to encourage HONORABLE and NOBLE RETIREMENT in lieu of a destroyed life and/or the life of their family or public they serve.

Thank you for continuing to support law enforcement personnel and their families

Thank you and God bless you military familes!

To our heros THANK YOU for all you do every day to make our communities a safer place! ❤️ -Sharlene

Thanks for all you do.

Noel knows. :)

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