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From Sore to Soar

Medical Debt

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Apply for Medicaid, Medicare, or low-cost health insurance plans

    • Website: https://www.healthcare.gov

    • Description: Receive Medicaid if receiving Social Security, SSI or on disability, access a waiver, meet income eligibility requirements

  • Goodbill:

  • Dollar For

    • Website: https://dollarfor.org

    • Description: Apply to receive hospital discounts on bills based on income, hospitals may negotiate bills under 240 days

  • Greater National Advocates

    • Website: https://gnanow.org

    • Description: Patient advocates, maximize health insurance coverage and benefits, insurance approval, therapy or prescribed medications, challenge charges and inflated medical bills, help with insurance

  • Pan Foundation

    • Website: panfoundation.org

    • Description: check on the status of available financial assistance programs

  • Patients Rising

  • Patient Advocate Foundation

    • Website: https://www.patientadvocate.org

    • Description: patient services to quality healthcare, featured projects include breast cancer, Covid, engaging with insurers, insurance glossary, cardiovascular disease, migraine and headache disease, advocacy

  • Resolve

  • Undue Medical Debt

  • Upside fund founded by Lindsey Stirling

    • Website: https://theupsidefund.org

    • Description: The Upside fund is specifically focused on supporting people in need of assistance to pay off medical debt.

$ Funding Opportunities

* Tool Kits & More

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Medical Trauma

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • ! The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

    • Website: https://www.nctsn.org

    • Description: Guidance and resources to support and navigate stress and trauma, find treatments and include a course on child and family stress intervention

$ Funding Opportunities

* Tool Kits & More

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Mental Health

Psychological, social and emotional conditions brought on by stress, relationships and choice making affecting mood, thinking, behavior, quality of life, risky behaviors, health, injury, and violence.

“Don’t be ashamed of your story. It will inspire others.” - unknown

“Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.” - C Assaad

Don’t judge my path if you haven’t walked my journey" - unknown

“Keep calm and take a sensory break” - unknown

Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines

911

CCRI Safety Center: https://cybercivilrights.org

CCRI Crisis Helpline: 844-878-2274

Advocacy & Resources

  • Behavioral Health Clinic Success Center

  • CIT International

    • Website: www.CITInternational.org

    • Description: Margiotta, N (2015). The five-legged stool…a model for CIT program success: How a crisis intervention team program can be more than just training

  • Child Mind Institute

    • Website: https://childmind.org

    • Description: Support for children who are struggling with mental health, behavior, and learning challenges

  • Cybersmile Foundation

    • Website: https://www.cybersmile.org

    • Description: How social media affects body image, anxiety, self-harm, cyber bullying, depression, catfishing, doxing, eating disorders, gaming, mental health, net etiquette “netiquette”, online security, reputation attacks, revenge porn, sexting, sextortion, abuse, and swatting

  • Hogg Foundation for Mental Health

  • Mental Health First Aid

    • Website: https://smiadviser.org

    • Description: A skills-based training course that teaches about mental health and substance-use issues

  • Mental Health America (MHA)

    • Website: https://www.mhanational.org

    • Description: Advocating for B4Stage4 mental health screening and treatments before they reach critical points. Includes an advocacy network

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    • Website: https://www.nimh.nih.gov

    • Description: Review of healthy topics. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the lead federal agency for research on mental disorders

  • National Council for Mental Well-being

  • Now Matters Now

  • SMI Adviser: Works to create access to best resources on serious mental illness, including support for real-world clinical practice, evidence based screening and treatments, with input from experts, peers, families and those receiving care. (https://smiadviser.org)

    • Website: https://smiadviser.org

    • Description: Works to create access to best resources on serious mental illness, including support for real-world clinical practice, evidence based screening and treatments, with input from experts, peers, families and those receiving care

  • The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

    • Website: https://www.samhsa.gov

    • Description: Free resources to access substance use services, mental health providers and additional resources

  • Technology Transfer Centers (TTC)

    • Website: https://techtransfercenters.org/landing

    • Description: Educates on the Addiction Health Technology Transfer Centers (ATTC), the Mental Health Technology Transfer Centers (MHTTC) and the Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC)

      $ Funding Opportunities

      * Tool Kits & More

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Organizations Supporting Military and Veteran Life

Military & Family

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Hotline for veterans 877-424-3838

Crisis line 800-273-8255 ext. 1

Advocacy & Resources

  • Active Heroes

  • Air Warrior Courage Foundation

    • Website: https://airwarriorcourage.org

    • Description: Meeting veteran and their family wherever the need is with financial assistance for medical, educational, and other extraordinary expense

  • American Corporate Partners

  • American Legion

  • Army Emergency Relief

    • Description: Zero-interest loans to soldiers and depends to help pay for emergency financial situations

  • Association of the United States Army (AUSA)

    • Website: https://www.ausa.org

    • Description: Nonprofit educational and professional development association serving America’s Army and supporters of a strong national defense, to educate, inform, and connect with soldiers, families, Army civilians, the voice for the army, and honoring those who served

  • * Children of Fallen Heroes Program

    • Website: https://www.fallenpatriots.org

    • Description: Scholarships to military families such as laptop computers to the children and spouses of military personnel who gave their lives in the ongoing conflicts in Iraq or Afghanistan.

  • Children of Fallen Heroes (military, foster care, first responders)

    • Website: https://www.childrenoffallenheroes.org

    • Description: remember heroes, support groups, memorial activities, community outreach, resources and referrals, honoring heroes tour with professional parachute demonstration

  • Child Mind Institute

    • Website: https://childmind.org

    • Description: Support for children who are struggling with mental health, behavior, and learning challenges

  • Elizabeth Dole Foundation

  • Forgotten Not Gone

  • Helping Hands for Freedom (HHFF)

    • Website: https://www.helpinghandsforfreedom.org

    • Description: Emergency assistance to active duty, veterans, wounded veterans, and gold star families with honorable discharge experience dramatic life change, wounded, facing multiple deployments, killed in actions, and suffering from injuries in the line of duty. Children 18 or under must reside in the home. Assisting with emergency payments, housing costs, utilities, transit, car repairs, financial assistance

  • Hidden Heroes

    • Website: https://hiddenheroes.org

    • Description: serves combat wounded, critically ill, and catastrophically injured service members and families to inspire, and raise awareness for military caregiver issues, provides inspiration and a national registry to help find resources and support, applications for free respite care for someone who cares for a military spouse, child, parent, or friend; financial assistance through the Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation to caregivers on bring of homeless and hungry, struggling to pay bills, unexpected care costs, unpredictable benefits review application the first 10 days of each month

  • H.E.R.O.E.S. Care

    • Website: https://www.heroescare.org

    • Description: combines the power of national organizations dedicated to providing emergency financial aid, employment opportunities, and mental health care services through a network of specially trained caregivers before, during, and after deployment.

  • The Independence Fund

  • Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC)

    • Website: https://www.militarychild.org

    • Description: Supports all military-connected children by educating, advocating, and collaborating to resolve education challenges associated with the military lifestyle.

  • Military Housing Assistance Fund (MHAF)

    • Website: https://usmhaf.org

    • Description: Assists active military and veterans with purchasing a home

  • Military Child Education Coalition

    • Website: https://www.militarychild.org

    • Description: MCEC supports all military-connected children by educating, advocating, and collaborating to resolve education challenges associated with the military lifestyle. Program features include call for the Arts program, newsroom, guides for transition, milkids soar on-demand webinars

  • Military Spouse Jobs formally known as Military Spouse Corporate Career Network

    • Website: https://www.militaryspousejobs.org

    • Description: To increase job placement and career development for military spouses and family members through the elimination of employment obstacles. Increase job placement and career development for military spouses and family members through the elimination of employment obstacles.

  • The My Career Advancement Account Scholarship Program for Spouses (MyCAA)

    • Website: https://mycaa.medcertify.com

    • Description: $4000 spouse scholarship for active duty military, national guard and reserves on title 10 military orders (E1-E9, W-1 to W-2, and 0-1 to 0-3) used to pursue careers

  • Operation Homefront

    • Website: https://operationhomefront.org

    • Description: Provides veterans with the opportunity to move into an operational home front home, must be able to cover certain expenses such as property taxes, insurance, warranty, HOA fees, and $100 per month toward closing costs. OH also provides financial assistance to help military families get through their short-term, financial struggles such as emergency payments, help for food, utilities, car repair, vision care, and other financial assistance

  • The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

    • Website: https://www.nctsn.org

    • Description: Guidance and resources to support and navigate stress and trauma, find treatments and include a course on child and family stress intervention and information on deployments

  • Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society (NMCRS)

    • Website: https://www.nmcrs.org

    • Description: Helps active duty and retired sailors and marines with financial assistance for emergency payments, food, healthcare, housing, utilities, financial assistance, financial education, loans and grants

  • Navy Seal Foundation

  • Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society (NMCRS)

  • Packages for Warriors

  • Project New Hope

  • Semper Fi Fund

    • Website: Semperfifund.org

    • Description: Financial support that arise from hospitalization and recovery, adaptive housing, adaptive transportation, service member and family support, education and career transition assistance, PTS and TBI support, America’s Fund, Team Semper FI

  • Soldier’s Angel - Deployed Adoption Team

    • Website: https://soldiersangels.org

    • Description: Matches soldiers with an angel, sending 4 letters and one care package a month until the service member returns home

  • Salvation Army for Veteran Families (SSVF)

    • Website: https://www.salvationarmyusa.org

    • Description: Assists low-income veterans and their families in obtaining permanent stable housing through case management, peer mentoring, and advocacy, linkage to resources, training in life skills, coping skills, housing preparation, budgeting, credit counseling, legal services, job preparation, and employment search, financial assistance addressing housing barriers, mediation between landlord and tenants

  • Stand Beside Them

    • Website: https://www.standbesidethem.org

      Description: Free coaching in career development, leadership life and relationships, small business development, health and wellness

$ Funding Opportunities

  • Army Emergency Relief (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • Children of Fallen Heroes (see above) -

  • Helping Hands for Freedom (HHFF) (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • Hidden Heroes H.E.R.O.E.S. Care (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • The Independence Fund (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • The My Career Advancement Account Scholarship Program (MyCAA) (see above) - Scholarship for college

  • Operation Homefront (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • Salvation Army for Veteran Families (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • Semper Fi Fund (see above) - Financial Assistance

    * Tool Kits & More

  • Children of Fallen Heroes (see above) - computers

  • The National Child Traumatic Stress Network - course

  • Soldier’s Angel (see above) - care packages for soldiers

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Missing, Exploited & Runaway

MAY 25 - INTERNATIONAL MISSING CHILDREN DAY

“Every single day that you are not with me, I think about you. I wonder what you are doing. I hope that you are safe. I pray that you are happy. My love will follow you, where ever you go. Whether you want it or not, forever and ever, because you will always be my child.” - unknown

Don’t wait, check in today

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

  • https://www.911.gov

  • Cyber Tipline: 1800-THE-LOST

  • FEMA’s National Emergency Family Registry and Locator System

  • American Red Cross Safe and Well System

Advocacy & Resources

  • Amber Alerts:

    • Website: Https://amberalert.ojp.gov

    • Description: asking communities to search for missing or abducted children. The alert is broadcast through radio, TV, road signs, cell phone, and other data-enabled devices.

  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters (Boston, MA)

    • Website: https://www.bridgeotw.org

    • Description: In Boston, Bridge Over Troubled Waters provides services to runaway, homeless and high-risk youth

  • National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

    • Website: https://www.missingkids.org , https://connect.missingkids.org

    • Phone: 1-800-843-5678, 1-800-THE-LOST (5678)

    • Description: Provides parents, professionals, and law enforcement with resources and training on various topics including child sex trafficking, searching missing children’s posters, report tips, reporting a missing child, and amber alert.

  • International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children

    • Website: HTTPS://WWW.ICMEC.ORG

    • Description: Envisioning a world safe from exploitation, sexual abuse, or risk of going missing. Lots of educational programs.

  • Polly Klaas Foundation

    • Website: Http://www.pollyklaas.org

    • Description: Operating a 24/7 hotline to find missing children, advocacy work, create legislation, and community theater.

  • National Runaway Safe line

    • Website: https://www.1800runaway.org

    • Description: A trained ear to runaway and homeless youth, mediating calls, free Greyhound passes to reunite youth with family and guardians, or offer alternative safe living situations.

  • Metanoia, Inc.

  • Right 4 Girls

    • Website: https://rights4girls.org

    • Description: Advocates for the dignity and rights of young women and girls to end sex trafficking, abuse to prison pipeline, and violence

  • Take it Down

    • Website: https://takeitdown.ncmec.org

    • Description: A free service that can help remove or stop online sharing of nude, sexually explicit images or videos taken when you were under age 18

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Mobility

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Bryon Riesch Paralysis Foundation

    • Website: brpf.org

    • Description: home and transportation accessibility assistance with mobility disabilities

  • Challenged Athletes Foundation

    • Website:

    • Description: Resources for training and competition and funding adaptive sports equipment (sports wheelchairs, handcycles, mono skis, sports prosthetics)

  • Friends of Man (Colorado, nationwide)

    • Website: https://www.friendsofman.org

    • Description: Support in Colorado and across US, Mobility Equipment: (prostheses, wheelchairs, van lifts, and modifications, ramps, home modifications), Medical Equipment and Procedures, Hearing Aids, Dentures, Glasses, Basic Needs: Clothing for Children, Food, Short-term Daycare, Prescriptions, Cobra/Health Insurance And More!!

  • IM ABLE Foundation

    • Website: https://imablefoundation.org

      Description: Grants to disabled individuals, handcycles and other adaptive gear, and well as instructional training programs for those in need to unleash the potential in physically challenged children and adults to be more active and enjoy the benefits of fitness and spend more time outdoors

  • High Fives Foundation

    • Website: https://highfivesfoundation.org

    • Description: Funds for life altering spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, amputation and other mobility injuries

  • Joseph Groh Foundation

    • Website: josephgrohfoundation.org

    • Description: Provides funding or reimbursement for material for durable medical equipment or for services rendered such as construction ramps to home, widening doorways, reconstructing bathrooms

  • Move United

    $ Funding Opportunities

  • Disabled Sports USA (see above) - Cash Grants

    * Tool Kits & More

  • Challenged Athletes Foundation (see above) - adaptive equipment

  • Friends of Man (see above) - mobility equipment, medical equipment and procedures, basic needs

  • IM ABLE Foundation (see above) - handcycles, adaptive gear, instructional training programs

  • Joseph Groh Foundation (see above) - material grants

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Multiple Sclerosis

Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Multiple Sclerosis Foundation emergency assistance grant

    • Website: https://msfocus.org

    • Description: MS diagnosis verified providers a one-time emergency assistance grant available for urgent needs related to rent or utilities, not mortgage payments

  • National Multiple Sclerosis Society

    • Website: http://www.nationalmssociety.org

    • Description: Understanding MS, What it is, information for newly diagnosed and related research, a MS navigator to find highly skilled and compassionate professionals as well as support groups, connection programs, educational programs and library

    $ Funding Opportunities

  • Multiple Sclerosis Foundation (see above) - emergency assistance grant

    * Toolkits & More

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Muscular Dystrophy

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Jett Foundation

  • Muscular Dystrophy Association

    • Website: http://www.mdausa.org

    • Description: Find care related to MDA, ALS, related neuromuscular disorders, accelerating research, advancing care and advocacy

    $ Funding Opportunities

  • Jett Foundation (see above) - Financial Assistance

    * Toolkits & More

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Music

Advocacy & Resources

  • Alex Townsend Memorial Foundation

    • Website: http://atownfoundation.org

    • Description: helping Savannah, GA to instill self-esteem, confidence, and optimism in young creative people through the popular A-Town series of festivals for music and art

  • Jubilation foundation

    • Website: https://jubilationfoundation.org

    • Description: Ended in 2023, but offered fellowship to individuals, unrestricted no-strings-attached music and movement grants

  • $ MusiCares

    • Website: https://www.musicares.org

    • Description: Anyone in the music industry including musicians, songwriters, engineers, producers, live crew, tour bus drivers, managers, agents, A&R, makeup artists, costume designers, music video creator & technicians, etc can apply for mental health & addiction recovers, health services, human services assistance. This includes help paying for financial, mental health and addiction recovery assistance, emergency payments, healthcare costs, therapies, financial expenses, loss of wages, housing, legal issues, senior services, utilities. Funds can be used for counseling/therapy, outpatient programming, sober living placement and costs, smoking cessation efforts, education services and more.

  • $ Pandion Music Foundation

    • Website: https://pandionmusicfoundation.org

    • Description: Making music careers more attainable, creating community and skill-building opportunities for music creaters in LA and beyond. Programs include music industry workshops, teen music mentorship, music community and networking, and music & wellness resources. Includes music making Grants support nonprofit public service organizations that expand access and opportunity to music education for thousands of individuals and provide innovative music education and hands-on music-making programs

  • $ Pinetop Perkins Foundation (PAL)

  • * Pianos for People

  • Reva

    • Website: https://www.revainc.org

    • Description: A jazz women’s hangout that educates, inspires, and heals people and communities

  • NPR

    • Website: https://www.npr.org

    • Description: Supports national and local programming including radio, news, talk, culture, music, podcast and entertainment shows.

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