First Responders Childrens Foundation is dedicated to helping the children of police officers, firefighters, paramedics, EMTs and 911 dispatchers. The Foundation provides financial support to children who have lost a parent in the line of duty as well as families enduring financial hardship due to tragic circumstances and/or the unique burdens that the children of First Responders experience. First Responders Childrens Foundation also supports, promotes, and facilitates educational activities and programs created and operated by first responder organizations whose purpose is to benefit children or the community at large.The Foundation focused on four programs during 2022 to strengthen and support the children of first responders. We expanded our college scholarship program in both dollars and the number of scholrships awarded. We provided hardship and disaster relief grants. We added mental health resiliency grants to empower children to cope with the unique emotional challenges they f