Mission
Statement
The mission
of Team HOPE is to assist families with missing children by
offering counsel, resources, empowerment and emotional support
from a trained volunteer, who has had or still has a missing child.
We enhance the already-proven skills of our volunteers and provide
them with the tools they need to assist families with missing
children.
Team HOPE volunteers ...
- Help families
in crisis with a missing child(ren) handle the day-to-day issues
of coping and searching for their child(ren)
- Provide
emotional support, resources and empowerment to these families
- Instill
courage, determination, and hope in parents and other family
members
- Alleviate the isolation
that so often results from fear and frustration
- Our trained
volunteers provide compassion, counsel, and support
- Contribute
positively to society and the well-being of all people
- Are honest
and trustworthy
- Are fair
and do not discriminate
- Respect
the privacy of others
As Thomas
Jefferson observed, "Who then can so softly bind up the wound
of another as he who has felt the same wound himself?"
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