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- EIN 65-1297992
- (760) 439-4381
- 25273 Ridgemoor Rd Menifee CA 92586-2696 USA
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Causes: Emergency Assistance, Human Services
Mission: In an effort to help bring mercy to those faced with crisis or disaster, the extra mile ministries has developed a unique faith-based approach to disaster victims and crisis responders. Utilizing trained mercy givers and k9 support dogs this ministry helps mitigate the emotional and spiritual effects of a crisis or disaster. Offering a national network of experienced care providers, extra mile helps train churches and communities in preparing for crisis or disaster. The extra mile ministries crisis response team is comprised of k9 comfort dogs, experienced handlers and team members. The dogs are a vital link in the ministry of national response to crisis/disaster. These specially trained comfort dogs work with experienced handlers and team members in stressful situations that are often chaotic and unpredictable. The team helps victims, emergency personal, and family members cope emotionally and spiritually. In doing so the team is able to help renew faith and restore hope. The team brin
Programs: The extra mile ministries remained active in outreach, and response to those facing crisis and disaster during 2014. We responded to manmade disasters as well as criminal crisis like mass shootings. We continued to work with parents of murdered children in regional and national settings as well as tragedy assistance program for survivors and their regional grieving seminars. Using our k9 comfort dog teams we traveled across the nation to help after the mudslide tragedy in washington, responded to mississippi cities to provide support for victims of tornadoes and pensacola fl after the flooding also going to ucsb after a mass shooting to help with trauma resolution. Our teams went to colorado springs, camp pendleton, ca and st. Petersburg florida to help to renew faith and restore hope with special needs populations. While at these locations we spoke with hundreds of people. The extra mile ministries also spent the year in training and equipping new teams for response to crisis and disaster. We also traveled to schools, churches and community groups talking about our program and how people can help support and get involved. We spoke with at least 6,500 people in these outreach programs.