The Trauma Intervention Program is a volunteer organization that sends people to comfort others who have just experienced some sort of a traumatic situation, whether it be a sudden natural death, homicide, suicide, sexual assault, etc. It takes a special kind of person to be up for the challenge to comfort someone on arguable the worst day of his or her life, so TIP struggles to maintain a large base of volunteers. Add in the bad economy and now there are more calls that volunteers must respond to despite not getting paid or even mileage reimbursement.