2022-11-14T12:39:07-07:00 2021-12-31 990EZ 2021-01-01 760633544 FIREFIGHTER MINISTRIES INC FIRE 8327571499 PO Box 925 Friendswood TX 77549 Wendy Norris President/Chairman 8327571499 2022-11-08 1 11 1 AAL2 2021 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z X www.texasloddtaskforce.com X X 57814 X 55592 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1055 0 1055 0 0 0 1167 57814 423 0 0 0 2577 479 54077 57556 258 8376 0 8634 8376 8634 0 0 0 0 8376 8634 0 0 8376 8634 To provide at-need and long-term assistance to police, fire, and EMS agencies, and to the families who have experienced a line of duty fatality or catastrophic injury. Virtual/Online Support: Online grief support for Emergency Service Workers who have suffered a Line of Duty Death, catastrophic accident, or suicide in their department. Includes online referrals for counseling. 0 11778 Line of Duty Death response: This program is where we offer at-need assistance to families and first responder agencies that have suffered a line of duty death. A team of volunteers from our organization will travel to the affected department to assist with the funeral arrangements, crisis management, counseling, benefits filing, and referrals to local organizations for additional help. Team members will stay in the affected location in order to provide the services listed above. Each response requires a minimum of one volunteer but additional volunteers are utilized depending on the needs of the family and the affected agency. 0 11741 LODD Preparedness Class: a program that provides education to departments on preparing for a line of duty death, and provides resources available immediately after the death including available benefits, education, and counseling. 0 3768 Other programs include a lending library where we provide an extensive library for families, agencies, and volunteers to borrow books and resources on topics such as grief, suicide prevention, survivors guilt, crisis counseling, and trauma; Family Care Kits are provided to families and include pamphlets, brochures, books, and a small gift to aid in the comfort of their grief; Education is provided to police, fire, and EMS agencies as well as our volunteers to assist them in preparing for a LODD, LODI, suicide prevention, and suicide survival, this includes one-on-one and department-wide training; Our Trauma Informed Care provides information and resources to those suffering from mental health issues caused by repeated exposure to trauma; Our Task Force Awareness program reaches out to emergency service agencies and provides information about the Task Force provides and programs it provides 0 26848 54135 Wendy Norris Chairman 40 0 0 0 Billy Wusterhausen Vice Chairman 10 0 0 0 Matt Whisenant Director 10 0 0 0 John Norris Director 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TX John Norris PO Box 925 Friendswood TX 77549 8327571499 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 45657 58548 22579 22581 55592 204957 45657 58548 22579 22581 55592 204957 204957 32890 9290 3940 15962 2223 64305 269262 0.76118 0.73766 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 Income from fundraising, rebates, and refunds RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8 Refunds from returned items/merchandise Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 Cards and dinner to show appreciation to our volunteers Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Program expenses including Line of Duty Death response, Line of Duty Injury response, lending library, insurance, travel of LODD education and consultations, meeting with families and departments of fallen and injured emergency service workers, training for volunteers, Task Force Awareness, Family Care kits, Virtual/Online Support, and office supplies