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988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

A free, confidential, nationwide 24/7 crisis and emotional-support service for people experiencing suicidal thoughts, emotional distress, mental-health concerns, substance-use concerns, loneliness, relationship problems, economic worries, illness, or other difficult situations. People may also contact 988 when they are concerned about a friend or loved one and do not have to be suicidal to use the service. The Lifeline connects people to trained counselors through a national network of local crisis centers and can provide referrals or other helpful resources.

Nationwide

Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

California nonprofit founded in 1971 that provides burn prevention education and survivor services for burn survivors, families, caregivers, and related community members. Survivor services include in-hospital and post-discharge assistance, peer and support groups, emergency financial assistance, therapy-grant assistance, camps, retreats, outings, scholarships, and educational resources. Services are generally for people who live in California or were treated at California hospitals.

Fresno CA · Statewide

American Burn Association

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

A national professional organization dedicated to improving burn care through education, research, quality standards, prevention, burn-center verification, and patient-facing resources. Its patient resources help burn survivors, families, and caregivers find burn-center care, understand recovery, and connect with peer support, camps, education, support groups, and practical assistance.

Chicago IL · Nationwide

American Psychological Association Psychologist Locator

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

Official APA searchable directory and referral tool for locating licensed psychologists by geographic location, provider name, practice area, and other filters. Individual listings may provide in-person office services, telehealth, treatment methods, insurance information, languages, and direct contact options. APA does not provide the therapy itself; users contact individual psychologists to determine fit, availability, fees, insurance, and whether the provider treats trauma or burn-related concerns.

Washington DC · Nationwide

Beyond the Burn Foundation

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 10, 2026

National burn-support nonprofit, formerly Sons of the Flag, providing case-by-case direct financial assistance for urgent needs during treatment and recovery, including temporary housing, rent or mortgage payments, transportation, utilities, food, medical supplies and recovery-related necessities.

Southlake TX · Nationwide

Burn & Reconstructive Center of Texas at Medical City Plano

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

American Burn Association-verified burn center providing comprehensive treatment for serious and complex burns and wounds, including emergency and critical burn care, burn surgery, advanced wound care, reconstructive surgery, inpatient and outpatient care, scar and contracture management, rehabilitation, and follow-up services. The center treats patients of all ages and serves patients from North Texas and surrounding states.

Plano TX · Multi State

Burn Advocates Network

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

Burn Advocates Network is a nonprofit organization focused primarily on pediatric burn survivors and on the recovery, rehabilitation, and reintegration of people affected by burn injuries. Its documented work includes international pediatric burn camps, support for burn-care organizations, medical supplies and equipment, clinical and professional training, burn prevention, scar-treatment initiatives, and survivor reintegration and advocacy. The organization’s work is international rather than U.S.-nationwide, with documented activities in Israel, India, Brazil, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic, plus historical support for burn camps and burn-survivor initiatives in the United States.

Nationwide

Burn Center at University Medical Center New Orleans

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

American Burn Association-verified burn center at University Medical Center New Orleans providing specialized acute and complex burn care, including surgical and nonsurgical treatment, debridement and grafting, scar management and laser treatment, operative reconstruction, complex wound care, pain management, physical and occupational rehabilitation, nutrition counseling, psychosocial support, research, education, outreach, and post-discharge survivor support.

New Orleans LA · Multi State

Burn Survivors Throughout The World, Inc.

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing burn-survivor and family support, education, advocacy, online peer community, chats, medical referrals, assistance-related resources, and public awareness activities. The organization states that it works nationally and internationally and describes support for burn survivors, family members, caregivers, burn-unit members, clinicians, firefighters, volunteers, and others connected to the burn-survivor community.

Conroe TX · Nationwide

Burned Children Recovery Foundation

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

National nonprofit organization providing emotional support, counseling, financial assistance, and recovery support to burned children and their families. Services described by the organization include transportation and lodging for hospital or clinic visits, counseling and certain out-of-pocket medical or recovery costs, support with school and extracurricular participation, survivor and family support, a toll-free support line, Phoenix House recovery services, and Camp Phoenix.

Sequim WA · Nationwide

Children's National Hospital — Burn Surgery

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

Children's National Trauma and Burn Surgery provides specialized burn care for children, including evaluation and treatment of burn injuries, wound care, recovery support and follow-up care tailored to pediatric patients and their families.

Washington DC · Multi State

Children’s Burn Foundation

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

Children’s Burn Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that supports child burn survivors and their families through comprehensive physical, reconstructive, psychological, emotional, financial, and social recovery services. Current materials describe medical and reconstructive care, physical therapy, counseling, peer and family support, emergency assistance with food, housing, and transportation, camps, school and community support, and burn-prevention education. The organization states that it assists child burn survivors from infancy through age 18, while some virtual support programming serves families nationwide.

Los Angeles CA · Multi State

Connecticut Burns Care Foundation

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

A Connecticut nonprofit organization founded in 1978 that supports burn survivors and their families, funds burn-care equipment and facilities and related research, promotes burn-care collaboration, provides the Arthur C. Luf Children’s Burn Camp, and supports fire-safety and fire-prevention education.

Milford CT · Nationwide

Edward G. Hirschman Burn Center

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

Edward G. Hirschman Burn Center provides specialized care for burn injuries, including evaluation, treatment, wound management and follow-up services to support patients through burn recovery.

Colton CA · Local

Evans-Haynes Burn Center

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

The Evans-Haynes Burn Center is VCU Health's specialized adult and pediatric burn-care service at VCU Medical Center. It provides emergency and inpatient management of severe burns, outpatient burn-surgeon consultation and follow-up for injuries that do not require hospitalization, wound-care guidance, and coordinated rehabilitation and recovery support. VCU Health identifies the center as part of its comprehensive Level I adult, pediatric, and burn trauma system.

Richmond VA · Statewide

Finger Lakes Regional Burn Association Camps & Retreats

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

A nonprofit burn-survivor support organization founded in the late 1980s and formally incorporated as a 501(c)(3) in 1989. FLRBA supports children and adult burn survivors and family members affected by burn trauma, provides psychosocial and peer support, offers financial and practical assistance in appropriate cases, organizes burn-survivor camps and retreats, and conducts burn-prevention education. The organization primarily serves the Finger Lakes region and may serve people from surrounding areas or beyond depending on the program.

Fairport NY · Local

Fire & Burn Foundation

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

California nonprofit health agency providing burn prevention education and burn-survivor support. Burn-survivor services described on the official website include youth support groups, Embers of Hope youth camp, financial or material assistance, emergency lodging and related support for families of burn patients, counseling and support sessions, and sponsorship assistance for eligible burn survivors attending retreats, camps, conferences, or similar activities.

Colton CA · Multi State

Firefighters Burn Institute

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

Sacramento-based nonprofit serving burn survivors, their families and caregivers, firefighters, and burn-care professionals. FFBI provides burn survivor recovery and peer-support programs, camps, retreats, community-reintegration activities, scholarships, firefighter-family response, fire and burn prevention education, professional education, and support for burn treatment and rehabilitation research.

Sacramento CA · Statewide

Firefighters Burn Institute Regional Burn Center at UC Davis Medical Center

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

A regional burn center at UC Davis Medical Center providing specialized adult burn care for patients age 18 and older, including treatment of first-, second-, and third-degree burns; scald, chemical, electrical, and flame injuries; inhalation injury; toxic epidermal necrolysis/Stevens-Johnson syndrome; purpura fulminans; burn reconstruction; inpatient burn care; outpatient burn-clinic follow-up; wound care; rehabilitation support; and burn-survivor aftercare. UC Davis describes the adult center as part of a linked but separate Northern California burn-care partnership with Shriners Children's Northern California for pediatric patients.

Sacramento CA · Local

Firefighters for Healing

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

A Minnesota-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit supporting burn survivors and their families, firefighters, first responders, and their families. The organization provides emergency transitional housing, practical and family support, and Camp RED family-focused programming intended to promote connection, confidence, emotional healing, and recovery beyond burn trauma.

Minneapolis MN · Multi State

Firefighters Quest for Burn Survivors

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Pasadena, California, dedicated to assisting people affected by burn injuries. Available descriptions indicate that it raises and distributes funds and provides education or support to burn centers, burn foundations, burn survivors, and their families. Current public evidence does not establish a separately branded, active direct-service program portfolio.

Pasadena CA · Multi State

Gene and Barbara Burnett Burn Center, The University of Kansas Health System

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

The Gene and Barbara Burnett Burn Center is a nationally verified adult and pediatric burn center at The University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City, Kansas. It provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care for complex thermal, chemical, electrical, radiation and cold-induced burns, as well as severe skin injuries and complex wounds. Services include burn surgery, hydrotherapy, grafting, scar prevention and management, reconstructive surgery, rehabilitation therapy, pain management, mental-health support, family education, long-term follow-up, and related outpatient wound and hyperbaric care. The center also offers telehealth appointments with plastic surgery and other specialists and maintains survivor-support and community-education activities.

Kansas City KS · Multi State

Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation, Inc.

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

Georgia nonprofit organization partnering with the fire service and burn-care community to provide fire-safety and prevention education, support medical facilities, and assist burn survivors in recovery. Its burn-survivor programming includes no-cost camps, family retreats, peer/community connection, virtual educational conversations, and educational assistance.

Atlanta GA · Statewide

Grossman Burn Foundation

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

California 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in 2007 that develops partnership-based treatment, care, support, prevention-education, and burn-treatment capacity for burn survivors and their families in the United States and internationally. Its documented work includes patient assistance, survivor support, community burn-prevention education, telemedicine and training initiatives, medical micropigmentation, scar-care support, and humanitarian burn-care projects.

Calabasas CA · Multi State

Healing Phoenix Arts

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 15, 2026

Healing Phoenix Arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering burn and trauma survivors to heal deeply through the healing arts and Post-Traumatic Growth, providing Warrior Scar Jewelry Workshops, Wellness Workshops, and Wellness Retreats.

Bowmansville PA · Nationwide

IAFF Foundation

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

The IAFF Foundation supports International Association of Fire Fighters members, emergency medical workers, and their families in North America. Its burn-related work includes an annual International Burn Camp for adolescent burn survivors, financial assistance following qualifying burn injuries, support for burn research and burn centers, and funding for the Young Burn Survivor Summit.

Washington DC · Nationwide

Illinois Fire Safety Alliance (Camp I Am Me)

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

Illinois nonprofit organization providing burn-survivor support, peer connection, family programming, camps, retreats, gatherings, and related year-round services for children, adults, and families affected by burn injuries. The organization also conducts fire-safety and burn-prevention work, but the burn-survivor programs are the most relevant services for this BSN resource.

Mount Prospect IL · Statewide

Joseph M. Still Burn Center at Doctors Hospital

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

A specialized burn center at Doctors Hospital of Augusta providing inpatient and outpatient care for adults and children with burn injuries and complex wounds. Services include evaluation and treatment of thermal, electrical, chemical, friction, and radiation-related burns; surgical and reconstructive care; wound management; and inpatient and outpatient therapy and rehabilitation. The center is an ABA-verified burn center and serves patients from across the United States, although its physical location is in Augusta, Georgia.

Augusta GA · Nationwide

LA General Medical Center Burn Unit

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

LA General Medical Center’s Burn Unit/Burn Complex is a specialized burn-care service and treatment/research facility associated with the Keck School of Medicine. Official materials describe care for minor, moderate, and critical burn injuries, including diagnostic, therapeutic, surgical, inpatient, emergency/evaluation, wound-care, reconstruction, and rehabilitation services for pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients. ([dhs.lacounty.gov](https://dhs.lacounty.gov/lageneral/our-services/speciality-care/adult-and-pediatrics-specialty-care-listing/burn-unit/?utm_source=openai))

Los Angeles CA · Local

Leon S. Peters Burn Center at Community Regional

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

A 24-hour comprehensive burn center providing inpatient and outpatient care for adult and pediatric burn patients, including wound management, burn surgery, burn rehabilitation, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, psychosocial and social-work support, child-life services, survivor and peer support, pet therapy, outreach education, and burn-prevention programming. The center serves a large Central California region and is described by Community Medical Centers as the only comprehensive burn center between Los Angeles and Sacramento.

Fresno CA · Local

Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC)

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

A national center operated by the American Institutes for Research that collaborates with Model System researchers to translate rehabilitation research into easy-to-understand, free, research-based resources for people living with spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and burn injury and for their families, caregivers, clinicians, and other supporters. MSKTC also provides knowledge-translation support to Model System grantees.

Nationwide

National Center for PTSD – Find a Provider

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs center that advances clinical care and social welfare for Veterans and others affected by trauma or PTSD through research, education, training, and public information. It does not provide direct clinical care or individual provider referrals; its public website helps people understand PTSD, find treatment and mental-health providers, use self-help resources, and locate crisis support.

White River Junction VT · Nationwide

No Ordinary Camps Burn Camps Program

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

A nonprofit organization providing in-person camp and developmental experiences for pediatric burn survivors, young adult burn survivors, and families affected by burn injury. Its programming integrates peer connection, psychosocial support, rehabilitation-oriented goals, medical or burn-care collaboration, youth development, and outdoor or adventure activities. Official materials describe the organization as the successor organization to the Children’s Hospital Colorado Burn Camps Program beginning in 2026.

Denver CO · Nationwide

Orange County Global Medical Center Burn Center

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

Orange County Global Medical Center operates the Orange County Burn Center, a seven-bed private intensive-care burn unit providing emergency burn management, inpatient and outpatient burn care, critical and intermediate care, wound and burn management, rehabilitation, and follow-up support. Its multidisciplinary team includes physicians, nurses, pediatric intensivists, pulmonologists, skin-grafting and critical-care specialists, child-life professionals, occupational, physical, respiratory and speech therapists, and nutritionists. The center treats patients of all ages with burn injuries and certain severe skin conditions, and also provides burn education and prevention activities.

Santa Ana CA · Local

Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

National nonprofit organization serving burn survivors, loved ones, caregivers, burn-care professionals, researchers, and others affected by burn injury. Services include peer support, emotional and psychosocial recovery resources, educational materials, advocacy, community connection, virtual support opportunities, and burn-community events.

Kentwood MI · Nationwide

REACH Burn Foundation

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 10, 2026

National nonprofit founded by burn physicians that fosters resilience through free adaptive outdoor experiences for adult burn survivors, peer support and burn-care continuing education.

Nationwide

San Jose Fire Fighters Burn Foundation

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

An independent firefighter-supported foundation organized under the auspices of San Jose Fire Fighters, IAFF Local 230. It provides educational, financial, rehabilitative, peer-support, family-support, and community resources for burn survivors and their families, and supports burn-unit equipment, burn-care education, treatment research, and community burn education.

San Jose CA · Multi State

Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Regional Burn Center

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

Adult and pediatric American Burn Association/American College of Surgeons verified regional burn center providing acute and critical burn care, surgery, wound care, rehabilitation, reconstructive and scar procedures, outpatient follow-up, psychological and social support, peer support, family and recreational programs, school re-entry assistance, burn prevention, and community education. The center primarily serves Santa Clara County and patients referred or transported from surrounding Bay Area counties.

San Jose CA · Statewide

Shriners Children's Boston

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 6, 2026

Shriners Children's Boston is a pediatric specialty hospital and verified pediatric burn center providing acute inpatient and outpatient burn care for children, including assessment, wound care, burn surgery, skin grafting, reconstructive and laser surgery, scar management, rehabilitation, psychological and psychosocial support, child life services, nutrition, and care management. The hospital serves children and families from New England and beyond.

Boston MA · Nationwide

Shriners Children's Northern California

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

Shriners Children's Northern California is a pediatric specialty hospital in Sacramento serving children from birth through age 18. Its Neil Reitman Pediatric Burn Institute provides specialized care for pediatric burns of all severities and types, including initial management, critical care, wound coverage, inpatient and outpatient care, rehabilitation, scar management, reconstruction, therapy, emotional support, and family-centered recovery support. The organization also serves families from Northern California, the Western United States, Northwestern Mexico, and Canada.

Sacramento CA · Multi State

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) — FindTreatment.gov

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

Official SAMHSA online resource for locating mental-health and substance-use-disorder treatment facilities in the United States and U.S. territories. Users can search by location, facility, service type, distance, state, or county and review facility services, contact details, payment information, and related treatment resources. SAMHSA also provides linked locators for opioid treatment programs and early serious mental illness treatment.

Rockville MD · Nationwide

The Burn and Reconstructive Center of Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 6, 2026

A hospital-based burn and reconstructive care center serving adult and pediatric patients with burn injuries and related wounds. Current official information describes specialized burn treatment, wound management, reconstructive services, hand and upper-extremity injury care, skin and soft-tissue disorder treatment, surgical and nursing services, and trauma/emergency support. Services include both inpatient and outpatient care.

Las Vegas NV · Multi State

The Burn Institute

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

A San Diego-based nonprofit that educates communities to reduce burn injuries and provides support and assistance to people affected by burn trauma, including burn survivors, children, young adults, families, caregivers, and community members. Current survivor services include peer support groups, survivor events and outings, retreats, Camp Beyond the Scars, young-adult programming, and resource assistance.

San Diego CA · Local

Torrance Memorial Medical Center

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

Torrance Memorial Medical Center operates a recognized burn treatment service providing specialized evaluation and treatment for burn injuries, including emergency stabilization, inpatient burn care, wound and dressing management, surgical or reconstructive care when clinically indicated, and follow-up or rehabilitation-related services. Public sources confirm the facility's burn-center status but do not provide a complete current service catalog on the accessible official pages.

Torrance CA · Local

Trauma Survivors Network

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

A national trauma-recovery network associated with the American Trauma Society that supports people recovering from serious physical injury and their families. The network connects survivors with local trauma-center programs, peer visitation, peer-support groups, educational and coping resources, survivor stories, a resource directory, pediatric resources, and guidance for emotional recovery after injury. Burn survivors may be eligible when their injury and recovery needs fall within a participating trauma or rehabilitation program.

Falls Church VA · Nationwide

U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

The U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center, also called the Army Burn Center, is the Department of Defense's only American Burn Association-verified burn center. It provides specialized inpatient and outpatient care for military beneficiaries, their families, retirees, eligible veterans in coordination with the VA, and civilian patients from Texas. Services include critical care, burn surgery, wound care, rehabilitation, physical and occupational therapy, psychosocial care, patient education, and treatment of burn-like injuries such as complex wounds and desquamating skin diseases.

Fort Sam Houston TX · Multi State

UC San Diego Health Regional Burn Center

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

UC San Diego Health's Regional Burn Center is a verified pediatric and adult burn center providing inpatient and outpatient treatment for major and minor burns, critical soft-tissue conditions, wound care, surgical and advanced diagnostic services, pain management, behavioral and mental-health support, nutrition, physical and occupational therapy, plastic and reconstructive surgery, social work, rehabilitation, and burn-survivor support. The center serves patients from infants through seniors.

San Diego CA · Multi State

UCI Health Regional Burn Center

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

UCI Health Regional Burn Center is an American Burn Association-verified adult and pediatric burn center in Orange County. It provides comprehensive care from emergency evaluation and hospitalization through rehabilitation and outpatient follow-up, including treatment for thermal, scald, electrical, chemical, friction and other burns; complex wound care; burn reconstruction; scar management; pain management; physical and occupational therapy; psychosocial support; and burn psychology. UCI Health also offers survivor and family support services, including peer connection, support groups and community events.

Orange CA · Local

UCLA Health Regional Burn Center at UCLA West Valley Medical Center

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

UCLA Health outpatient burn clinic providing acute and outpatient burn wound care, reconstructive surgery, rehabilitation services, psychological counseling, and burn survivor support. The clinic is part of the UCLA Health Regional Burn Center at UCLA West Valley Medical Center, which provides burn care for adults and children.

West Hills CA · Local

UCSF Health Hyde Hospital – Bothin Burn Center

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 9, 2026

UCSF Health Hyde Hospital's Bothin Burn Center is an American Burn Association-verified burn center providing comprehensive care from critical and acute burn treatment through surgery, wound care, rehabilitation, and follow-up. The center has a 16-bed intensive-care burn unit, dedicated pediatric treatment rooms, multidisciplinary clinical staff, and an adjacent outpatient burn clinic for treatment of minor burns by appointment. Current UCSF materials also describe strengthened pediatric burn-care operations, including 24-hour pediatric intensivist coverage, pediatric pain and anesthesia protocols, standardized admission and transfer protocols, and pediatric-specific nursing training.

San Francisco CA · Multi State

UMC Lions Burn Care Center

✓ BSN VerifiedLast reviewed September 6, 2026

The UMC Lions Burn Care Center is the burn-care service of University Medical Center of Southern Nevada and Nevada’s only verified burn center. It provides specialized inpatient and outpatient care for burn injuries of all sizes and for related conditions including frostbite, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis, necrotizing fasciitis, soft-tissue injuries, and patients at risk for multisystem organ failure. UMC also provides outpatient burn and wound care and serves patients from Nevada and surrounding states.

Las Vegas NV · Multi State