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Mission Statement
Providing comfort to those needing it due to trauma, loss, illness, or loneliness. Teddy bears for emergency, medical, and social services agencies. Police, fire, ambulance carry teddy bears for trauma victims.
About This Cause
We are an all-volunteer group that provides stuffed animals to up to 60 agencies on a regular basis, and responds to disasters and special requests. Although based in Livermore CA valley, our reach goes around the world. An average of 12,000 - 14,000 stuffed animals a year are gifted to organizations to provide relief to their patients and clients. From children to adults to senior citizens, everyone needs to know someone cares and is thinking about them. A simple stuffed animal can make the difference both emotionally and physically - lowering blood pressure, reducing shock, and providing a comforting object to hold on to. Dementia patients often respond to a stuffed animal and communicate. Emergency services find them invaluable and carry them in their vehicles as regular inventory. Every age, male and female, can respond to the symbol of a teddy bear. As one elderly woman once shared after getting a bear - "you care, you thought about me".