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TAPS provides ongoing emotional hope, help, and healing for anyone grieving the loss of a loved one in military service to America, regardless of relationship to the deceased, geography, or circumstance of the death. TAPS meets its mission by providing peer-based support, crisis care, casualty casework assistance, and grief and trauma resources.
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc. is a national nonprofit organization that provides compassionate care and comprehensive resources for those grieving the death of a military or veteran loved one. TAPS is free for surviving families and loved ones. It offers a variety of programs, a national peer support network and grief resources ...
History of “Taps”. The creation of our country’s most revered bugle call has been credited for many years to General Daniel Butterfield, commander of the Third Brigade, First Division, Fifth Army Corps of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. It was believed that the general wrote the call in July 1862 while his brigade was camped ...
"TAPS has entered into an employment agreement with the President through June 30, 2022, with the potential to extend for a year. The agreement contains a clause whereby TAPS is liable for severance pay in the event of termination other than for cause. At December 31, 2020, the maximum potential amount of severance is approximately $158,000."
The TAPS Suicide Postvention Model™ is a three-phase approach to suicide grief that will 1) help stabilize you and your family members in the immediate aftermath of a loss, 2) guide you onto a healthy journey of grieving, and 3) move you toward post-traumatic growth in a fully intentional way. Suicide-loss survivors are uniquely poised to ...
In 2012, TAPS received 4,807 newly bereaved survivors, an average of 13 per day every day of the year, nearly double the 2011 average of 7 per day. | Learn more about Bonnie Carroll’s work ...
- Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors
To learn more about the TAPS three-part Postvention Model or to contact one of our professionals for a consultation, please contact us at 202-588-8277 or suicidepostvention@taps.org. The TAPS Suicide Postvention Model is a comprehensive framework of healing and growth and is useful to anyone assisting others in overcoming grief.
