The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay hosted its Annual Cup of Compassion on February 29, 2024. By leap year standards, it would have been their fifth one - which makes Clara Reynolds extremely grateful no one is limiting these "cups" to only Leap Days! For the past 21 years, the Cup of Compassion community breakfast has helped the Crisis Center raise the necessary funds to serve 170,000+ people annually.
Reynolds, with the Leadership Tampa Class of 1999, is the Crisis Center's President and CEO. Helping her tell their story this year was a survivor named Nicole. To see video, click HERE.
Reynolds told the crowd of business and community leaders that even though each person may have a dramatically different definition for what constitutes a "crisis," the Crisis Center is there to help. Whether by answering the phone when your loved ones dial 988 for suicide intervention, holding your friend’s hand while they receive their rape exam, providing trauma therapy to your kid, or providing medical services to your neighbor when they experience an emergency, the Crisis Center is there for all of it, 24 hours of the day, 7 days a week. In its 2-1-1 database alone, there are 3,000+ resources to share with callers to the hotline.
The Crisis Center has been a Chamber Member since 1987. Click HERE to learn more about its Florida Veterans Support Line (1-844-MyFLVet), free trauma counseling at 4 Hillsborough County locations, intervention specialists, its services as the county's certified rape crisis center, Transcare countywide psychiatric transports and countywide substance abuse transports... and more.
