The mission of Badges and Books is to stock first responder vehicles with bags containing new chapter, activity, and picture books (some along with matching stuffed animals) that first responders can gift to a child in crisis. Research shows that the damaging effects of trauma can actually alter a child’s brain. Our program intends to interrupt this process by offering a book or activity to a child to help them briefly escape from the crisis situation they are exposed to and attempt to prevent this traumatic rewiring of the brain.

PROGRAMS OPERATED BY PROJECT NOVA, INC. ARE SOLELY RUN BY THE GENEROSITY OF VOLUNTEERS AND FUNDS RAISED BY GRANTS AND DONATIONS.