A portion of all proceeds related to Balancing the Badge to Make a Difference books and associated products and events go directly toward law enforcement support groups to prevent suicide and other debilitating issues facing many officers and families throughout the country. Your support is greatly appreciated.
National Police Suicide Foundation
The National Police Suicide Foundation’s goal is to provide support, encouragement, and hope to the agencies and families affected by this tragedy, by helping them to understand and manage the emotional and psychological impact of suicide.
HOPA – Houston Officers Peer Assistance Program
WHEN YOU NEED TO LEAN ON ANOTHER BADGE
HOPA | Houston Officers Peer Assistance
Hotline Phone# 832-200-3499 Available 24/7
HOPA is non-profit organization, set up for the sole purpose of providing peer support to active and retired Houston Police Officers.
Our Peer Assisters (PA) are a team of retired Houston Police Officers who volunteer to provide round the clock, confidential assistance to current and retired officers. All of our PA’s have over 25 years of law enforcement experience, and have been put through a rigorous application, interview, and training program. Our PAs are not psychologists, they are officers, just like you!
Hope’s Path is a non-profit 501(c)3 that uses a faith based community approach to direct foster youth towards confident sustainable independence. Hope’s Path offers a 4-cornerstone approach that includes:
- a curriculum of soft skilled development (character development, management of emotions, and self-control, leadership and interpersonal communication skills)
- Life Skills development (home/car/personal maintenance, cooking, laundry, etc.)
- A team of six mentors assigned to each young adult (housing, healthcare, transportation, education, social/community development, finance)
- Vocational/Career apprenticeships
Hope’s Path does not operate as an emergency or homeless shelter. We have ZERO TOLERANCE for drug/alcohol abuse and do not allow any weapons or handguns on the premises. Participants in our program are not mandatorily placed by Child Protective Services or any courts.
Program participants are selected from an application and interview process. Hope’s Path, as well as the participant, have the ability to exercise free will to sever the relationship at any time.
Our Mission | Leading the fight against hunger.
The Houston Food Bank is a solution to both hunger and food waste. America’s largest and nationally recognized as Feeding America’s Food Bank of the Year in 2015, the Food Bank distributes 122 million nutritious meals through its network of 1,500 community partners in southeast Texas, feeding 800,000 individuals each year.
Balancing the Badge
to Make a Difference
