We started as a client support group at Sickle Cell Association C.A.R.E. Committee from there we went to the Urban League of Hampton Roads because they also had a Sickle Cell program and became a part of them under the direction of their nonclinical staff member Miss Sonya Phillips. While we were there, she encouraged us to become our own entity. Thus, the birth of our first independent organization Sickle Cell Family and Peer Advocates. From there to Sickle Cell Family and Peer Advocates LLC from there to Sickle Cell Family and Peer Advocates of Tidewater and now Sickle Cell Family and Peer Advocates of Tidewater Inc.