3 a Bereavement Foundation

“CONTRACT STAFF”

“The 990 is reviewed by michele lara”

“The orgnization makes its conflict of interest statement and its financial statements available to the public. The conflict of interest is in the human resource policy procedure binder section 1. Working conditions and the financial statements are located in the borad of directors binder.”

“The mission of 3 a bereavement foundation 3abf is to enable low-income and working poor bereaved families to secure services to comprehensively address their bereavement needs. 3abf occupies a unique position in the houston metropolitan area as the only nonprofit organization with a sole purpose to provide comprehensive bereavement services to economically disadvantaged families. All services are rendered without regard to ethnic, social, religious or cultural background.”

“3 a bereavement provided 823 bereaved families in 2021 with consultations, referrals, bereavement support counseling, grief resources, after care follow-up services and emergency financial assistance. On average, there are at least four surviving immediate family members spouse, siblings, children and/or parents within every referred family. Therefore, the 823 bereaved families served in 2021 equates to approximately 3292 individuals that directly benefit from 3abf services. 3abf provides programs and services at no charge to economically disadvantage children, adults and families.”

“Due to the covid-19 pandemic shutdown in march 2020 changes were made for bereavement counseling services. There were no in-person individual or family grief counseling sessions provided by our organization or contract grief counselors grief counseling sessions were provided via teleconferences or vitual support group meetings. Since our inception in september 1997, 3abf has assited over 12,861 families, each consisting of multiple persons, including parents, siblings, childrea nd or spouses, etc directly provided over 481,000 in funeral/burial assistance and grief counseling assisted families in receiving over 2.75 million form other supporters aprox 98 from crime victims compensation funds and 2 from fema for 2005 hurricane victims provided over 1250 hours of group and/or individual counseling services.”