2024-11-05T18:50:22-07:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 760633544 FIREFIGHTER MINISTRIES INC FIRE 8327571499 16918 Serenity Cove Circle Friendswood TX 77546 Wendy Norris President/Chairman 8327571499 2024-11-05 1 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X www.texasloddtaskforce.com X X 70161 X 69534 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 627 0 627 0 0 0 0 70161 0 0 0 0 2100 1525 52565 56190 13971 19237 0 33208 19237 33208 0 0 0 0 19237 33208 0 0 19237 33208 To provide at-need and long-term assistance to police, fire, and EMS agencies and to families who have experienced a line-of-duty fatality, suicide, or catastrophic injury. To provide mental health resources and referrals and support to first responders seeking mental health support. 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 16700 Family Meet and Greets: This program allows family members an opportunity to meet with other survivor families and assist each other through the healing process. 0 5200 Trauma Informed Care: This program provides information and resources to First Responders suffering from mental health issues caused by repeated exposure to trauma. 0 2650 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 Task Force Awareness program reaches out to emergency service agencies and provides information about the Task Force provides and programs it provides; Our Honor Guard Program provides training to departments and individuals who wish to honor the fallen by standing watch over the body of a fallen First Responder. 0 18750 43300 Wendy Norris Chairman 30 0 0 0 Billy Wusterhausen Vice Chairman 15 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 Wendy Norris 16918 Serenity Cove Circle Friendswood TX 77546 8326476770 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 22579 22581 55592 61376 77495 239623 22579 22581 55592 61376 77495 239623 239623 3940 15962 2223 1340 627 24092 263715 0 0.90864 0.87075 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 Income from fundraising event, 5K Memorial Run. RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Program expenses include training and education for honor guard teams, line-of-duty death response teams, public safety agencies, and conferences. Response teams for line-of-duty deaths, suicides, and catastrophic injuries. Support services for families and loved ones of fallen first responders include filing of benefits, crisis support, peer support, family networking events, care baskets, and virtual and online support services. Training for volunteers. Consultation for public safety agencies. An extension was requested due to the death of a member of the organization, John Norris, a director who provided bookkeeping services for the organization.