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To Request American Red Cross Services
to members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their
families,
please call (in Springfied) 832-9500
or
TOLL FREE 1-866-206-0256.
During Business Hours (8am-4:30pm M-F) please dial Ext 128.
If after hours, please follow the prompts
to be connected to an after-hours case worker.
Our phones are answered by volunteers 24/7/365.
The American Red Cross provides an exclusive worldwide communications
and support network that serves as a lifeline between military
service members
and their families. For the American soldier and his or her family, the
Red Cross is the connection to home, relaying urgent information -- a family
crisis, a death in the family, a financial emergency, or a joyous birth.
Tragedy can strike a family any time, day or night, and separation due
to military service often makes it difficult to reach a man or woman in
uniform. The Red Cross communications system is capable of reaching family
members residing in the largest and smallest American communities, as well
as ships at sea, embassies and isolated units.
RED CROSS SERVICES TO THE ARMED
FORCES INCLUDE:
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Emergency
Communications. Keeping military personnel
in touch with their families during family emergencies
such as death, serious illness or the birth of
a child. Red Cross emergency messages provide military
personnel and their commanders with fast, reliable
information to help them make decisions about emergency
leave, deferment, compassionate reassignment and
dependency discharge. Nationally, the American
Red Cross transmits more than 1.4 million emergency
messages each year to members of the U.S. Armed
Services and their families.
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Financial
Assistance
Working with military aid societies to provide
interest-free loans or grants when urgent personal
or family crises arise. Financial aid is used for such
things as emergency travel, burial assistance, food
and shelter.
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Counseling. Providing
counseling, information, referrals and other social
services to military families. This role is becoming
increasingly important as more community-based military,
such as the National Guard, are called to active
service.
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Veterans. Assisting
veterans in claiming financial benefits through the
Department of Veterans Affairs and providing support
services to patients in Veterans Administration hospitals.
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