2024 First Quarter Review | | |
A note from our Founder... | |
Dear Friends,
Happy Spring to you!
We started 2024 off with a renewed vision and plan we are very excited about! As we’ve consistently evaluated the best ways to educate and support our law enforcement families, we realized that there are thousands of families who’ve never heard of us. These families desperately need our resources! We immediately revamped our goals for 2024 to prioritize two ways of reaching families.
First, increase our social media presence with content designed to help, give hope, and provide needed knowledge. Second, reach new officer families through departments and academies, providing early education. We now have several projects in the works on our website, in social media, and creating progressive family trainings as officers move through the career. We have expanded our Marketing/Communications team, and created a robust Content Team working together to reach these families.
Then suddenly, we felt the wind change! Since 2018 when our work began, we have worked tirelessly to gain ground in the law enforcement community. We’ve built a solid reputation as an organization of excellence and trust. Our work has been slow but methodical, with good results. We felt that we were pushing…appropriately so. And then in one week, we were contacted by two large organizations that were asking us to bring Home Watch to them. This change is huge—we went from pushing ourselves to others pulling us in. Our team members are responding with a different approach!
The good news doesn’t stop there. As the new year began, we had three individuals who’d credited H2LOC for saving their lives (thwarting suicide). This past quarter, we added four more people to that list! Our work is making a difference…and seven families have their loved ones with them, getting the help they need. We couldn’t be more thankful.
Thank you for your support, prayers, dollars, and interaction. We are grateful for you!
Victoria Newman
Founder, President
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H2LOC off to a great start! | |
How 2 Love Our Cops has had the privilege to be able to work in 16 different states during just this first quarter! Whether we are attending conferences, trainings, giving presentations, handling peer support or critical incidents, it's clear that the work that we do is so needed by the Law Enforcement community in the United States. | |
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First Quarter Outreach Highlights....
- Added 4 volunteers in key areas - Oklahoma state liaison, Chaplain and Fundraiser Donations, Peer Team Admin and Grant Writer, and Website Admin.
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Updated resources, adding Body, Mind, Badge by Board Member Dr. Kathryn Hamel to our original resources.
- Dozens of presentations across the nation by team members.
- Trained peers for National Family Helpline, working with Cordico.
- New Officer Family resources - improved, updated, and began groundwork for more.
- Fundraising strategies defined, tool for presentations completed, fundraisers scheduled.
- Prep work for Home Watch Family Conferences.
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2024 events calendared - check them out HERE.
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Home Watch Roseville
This full day conference is designed to equip men and women in their roles as law enforcement spouses/significant others. Our Roseville, CA event on Saturday, April 13th, featured special speakers Tim and Michelle Whitcomb, Sheriff from New York, and Kevin Thompson, marriage pastor and author. With teaching, stories, connection, food, and much more, more than 70 attendees left feeling honored, encouraged, and inspired! Your support makes this event possible. THANK YOU to all the volunteers who help make this possible!
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Launch of National Family Helpline
H2LOC is excited to work with Cordico to launch a Family Peer Support Helpline! This is a 24/7, non-crisis helpline manned by volunteers trained in peer support. All support is confidential. This is a first of its kind, and we are excited to open another avenue of help and support to our families.
The helpline will be launching SOON!
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BIG DAY OF GIVING
We are excited to be part of the Big Day of Giving this year for the first time. H2LOC has BIG goals to raise $50,000 to help fund all that we have planned for this year.
What is Big Day of Giving?
Big Day of Giving is a once-annual 24-hour giving challenge to help local nonprofits raise funds to make a difference in the Sacramento region. Your donation of any amount will help provide education, support and community to our law enforcement families not only in the Sacramento region, but across the country where we are actively bringing resources to families and departments in need.
How can you help?
GIVE! You can donate by clicking the button now through Thursday, May 2, and making a gift with a credit or debit card.
- Donations as little as $10 make a big difference.
- You can start giving today through May 2 during the Early Giving period.
We know this is a HUGE goal, and we can't accomplish this without you and your support for our families in blue!
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NATIONAL POLICE WEEK
May 12-17, 2024
Some of the How 2 Love Our Cops team members will be attending local, state, and National Police Week events during May to support and honor families and co-workers that have lost loved ones in the line of duty. This year, 282 names are being engraved on the national memorial wall as surviving family members and coworkers gather to honor them at ceremonies throughout the week of May 12th - 17th in Washington D.C.
Many local cities, counties, and states honor fallen officers at yearly memorials held during the month of May. This can be a difficult time for families and agencies as they gather to recognize the sacrifice of their loved ones and family members. Police week is a great time for community members to show their support for their local police departments by attending the memorials and by showing appreciation for their department in more personal ways.
We would love to hear how you support your local Police Department!
Click the links below to learn more:
National Law Enforcement Memorial
Officer Down Memorial Page
Concerns of Police Survivors
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SPOTLIGHT: Pray for the Patch
Our Team collects department and agency patches from all over the world, and once a month we post a different patch on our blog, Facebook, and Instagram pages and offer up a prayer for that particular agency. We then post the patches on special bulletin boards and display at our events.
Want us to pray for you? Send us a patch! How 2 Love Our Cops, PO Box 811, Penryn, CA 95663.
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How 2 Love Our Cops embraces the mission to encourage, educate, and equip law enforcement officers and their families so that they not only just survive, but THRIVE! By financially coming alongside of us, you help make that happen. Thank you for your support of any amount! Here are some key ways to FUND THE NEED:
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Be a Home Watch Family Conference Sponsor - $4,500. Help provide this lifechanging experience for law enforcement families.
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Training a new Peer to assist Family Members - $300 (training is in June)
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One therapy session for a Family Member - $185
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Starter Kit for 1 New Officer family - $10
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