Support Services for Survivors and Families

Hiring three people to visit shut-ins and disabled people twice a month for 2 hours, significantly and without drugs, reducing their anxiety and loneliness, lightening their darkness and restoring HOPE, by:

1) handling incoming mail, organizing & filing paperwork, facilitating bill-paying.

2) cleaning & organizing their living space, restoring their dignity, bringing nutritious meals for their fridge & freezer.

3) Interacting with them personally, making eye contact, looking at photo albums of family, playing games of a non- video nature, befriending them.

We estimate the cost per needy person to be $1,000 for 3 months. That’s two 2-hour visits a month by three trained people performing separate roles, roles that typically fall to a family member or friend. And often doesn’t get done at all.

To care in this way for one person on our Bison Neediest Cases list will cost just $4,000 a year ($1000 X four 3-month periods).