CARING CONTACT
Caring Contact is an award-winning, volunteer-staffed caring and crisis hotline and listening community. They answered more than 21,000 calls in 2024 to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and to the Caring Contact warm line (908-232-2880).
Caring Contact trains volunteers twice a year, in the spring and fall.
The Westfield United Fund proudly helps fund this incredibly important and potentially life-saving service, which is available to all callers free-of-charge.
“The grant from the Westfield United Fund was critical to our success…the grant helped fund Listener training and support, bringing more Listeners on the lines and ensuring they were able to provide the highest quality support to our callers…
Funds from the Westfield United Fund helped make this possible.”
- Caring Contact
YEARS OF SUPPORT
FROM WESTFIELD UNITED FUND
40 Years
TOTAL CUMULATIVE FUNDING*
$564,200
*Funding from the Westfield United Fund since 1985.
NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN
UNION COUNTY WHO CALLED CARING CONTACT*
1,900
in Union County alone
*Number of calls from people in Union County Caring Contact in 2024.