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The American Red Cross links members of the U.S. Armed Forces with their families during a crisis. Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, the Red Cross quickly sends emergency communications to deployed service members on behalf of their family. Military members can have peace of mind knowing that when they are on a mission, in training or stationed far from home-and leaving cell phones and emails behind-they are still connected to home.
While providing service to 1.4 million active duty military personnel and their families, the Red Cross also reaches out to more than 1.2 million members of the National Guard and Reserves and their families living in nearly every community in America.
Both active duty and community-based military can count on the Red Cross to provide emergency communications that link them with their families back home, access to financial assistance in partnership with the military aid societies, information and referral and assistance to veterans. Red Cross personnel form a global network in 700 U.S. chapters, military installations worldwide and in forward deployed locations in Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq.
If you need to contact a member of the armed forces or require other emergency assistance, call 419-329-6060 or 888-590-0098. Caseworkers are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to help you.
Restoring Family Links
I Am Alive
The family messages transmitted by the Red Cross can be very brief, but the three short words "I am alive" may be all that is needed to ease the minds of distraught loved ones half a world away.
Armed conflict and natural disaster leave millions of people around the globe in urgent need of humanitarian assistance every year. Adding to the physical losses, the confusion and chaos surrounding war and natural disasters often separates families when they need each other most. Tragically, when families and loved ones are separated by war or disaster, their suffering is greater. But, through the strength of the Red Cross Movement and the work of tracing volunteers at national societies around the world, including the American Red Cross, families reconnect.
American Red Cross International Family Tracing Services accepts tracing cases and traces sought
persons when:
- Families have been separated as a result of either armed conflict or disaster including the Holocaust .
- As much as possible, families should have tried normal channels of communication before requesting Red Cross tracing services.
- The family member making the inquiry provides essential information on the sought person.
- The family member making the inquiry is a close family relative, who has been in direct contact with the sought person before the conflict or disaster occurred.
Learn more about:
To begin a search, call your local American Red Cross chapter, the critical link in your community to the vast network of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
The American Red Cross cannot accept requests when there is insufficient information to conduct a search; or when it is for genealogical research; or tracing regarding legal matters such as wills, child custody etc.; or the tracing of birth parents or third party requests.
For more information, contact the American Red Cross, Greater Toledo Area Chapter at 419-329-6060 or 1-888-590-0098.
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