American Cross Global

American Cross Global, a 501(c)(4), is destroying darkness with a candle - that is, coming to the aid of traumatized persons who lose "heart"(courage and confidence) from natural and man-made disasters. Recovering a sense of optimism is important. This can mean to trust that things will get better no matter how bad they seem, to look for the best aspects of any situation, and a belief that good will triumph over evil. Trauma becomes hard when an danger which a person didn't prepare for occurs. This means someone in a wrong place at a wrong time - survivors of school shootings, wildfires, hurricanes, PTSD veterans - or the coronavirus pandemic shattering normalcy by an unprecedented shutdown of everyday living. Since 2010, thirty-two victims died in fatal police encounters, saying:"I can't breathe." Families of these people lose heart - and when you've lost heart, you lose it all.