Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors

Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) is an American nonprofit organization that provides care and support to families and friends of members of the U.S. armed forces who died while serving. TAPS was founded in 1994 by Bonnie Carroll. The mission of TAPS is to provide ongoing emotional help, hope, and healing to all who are grieving the death of a loved one in military service to America. TAPS is committed to providing compassionate care to all military survivors regardless of their relationship to the deceased or the circumstances or geography of the death. This is done through long-term, peer-based emotional support, crisis response and intervention, casualty casework assistance, and grief and trauma resources and information.