Services like ours come into play to help you during that critical time when you can't do it for yourself, but it's by no way intended to take care of you for the rest of your life. We've got real life stories, we've got people who are willing to testify and say Gulf Coast helped me return to a level of self-sufficiency.

Now they (the public) can see it. It's too bad that it took tragedies - but now they understand that it can happen.