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Trained TIP volunteers will respond 24-hours a day, 7-days a week to offer immediate emotional and practical support to victims of any traumatic event at the request of emergency responders.
Events TIP responds to include:
- Death by natural causes, homicide, suicide, drowning, or any other means
- Fire, from small kitchen fires to fully-involved or fatal fires
- Crimes including rape, assault, robbery, and burglary
- Automobile accidents
- Missing persons cases
- Persons who are distraught and seeking immediate support
- Deaths or traumas involving school faculty, staff, or students
- Any incident where TIP's assistance is requested by emergency responders
Ways TIP volunteers can help people impacted by a traumatic event include:
- Comforting family and friends following the death of a loved one
- Comforting witnesses to traumatic events such as car crashes, suicides, homicides, and drowings
- Acting as a liaison between emergency responders and their people affected by a traumatic event
- Working with disoriented or lonely older persons
- Helping family members and friends of a recently-deceased person work with the funeral industry
- Protecting traumatized victims' right to privacy
- Making sure that in the middle of a chaotic situation, people affected by a traumatic event remember to take medications and to get adequate nutrition
- Waiting with family members in a hospital emergency room while their loved one is in the care of the hospital
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