Financial & Practical Assistance
43 resources found.
Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation
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,…
Care managers provide hospital visits, peer support, connections with burn-unit staff and adult burn-survivor peer counselors, work and school re-entry support, emergency financial…
Need-based financial assistance for therapeutic counseling for burn survivors, family members, or caregivers. The application identifies a first-time grant of up to $1,800, capped …
Financial-need scholarships for eligible burn survivors, family members, or caregivers include the Woody & Louise Reed Bridge to Life Scholarship for postsecondary education, the A…
American Burn Association
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, a…
A current ABA patient-resource page that aggregates peer-support organizations, camps, educational resources, support groups, virtual support groups, and housing or financial assis…
Arizona Burn Foundation
Arizona Burn Foundation is an Arizona nonprofit organization serving burn survivors and their families through a continuum of crisis, recovery, and long-term support. Services include emotional and financial assistance, peer and caregiver s…
Crisis-care assistance that may include lodging assistance, transportation assistance, food vouchers, emotional support, and emergency financial assistance for burn survivors and f…
Helping Others, Promoting Empowerment services provide individualized recovery support through social workers, including emotional support, financial assistance, medical garments a…
Beyond the Burn Foundation
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…
Case-by-case financial assistance addressing urgent barriers during burn treatment and recovery. Approved support may cover temporary housing, backlogged rent or mortgage payments,…
Burn Center at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Burn Center/Burn Program provides comprehensive multidisciplinary care for children with burn injuries and other cutaneous conditions. Services span emergency and acute evaluation, inpatient burn care, surge…
During hospitalization, the multidisciplinary burn team may include psychology, social work, case management, child life, therapeutic recreation, massage therapy, nutrition, occupa…
Active multidisciplinary pediatric burn treatment delivered through inpatient hospitalization and outpatient Burn Clinic follow-up. Services include evaluation and treatment of bur…
Burn Foundation of America
A nonprofit organization founded in 1988 that supports burn patients and their families with free lodging and meals, transportation to follow-up appointments, outpatient prescriptions and other medications, anti-scarring garments, mobility …
Free practical assistance for burn patients and families, including hotel or family-house lodging, transportation to follow-up appointments, outpatient prescriptions and burn-relat…
Burn Survivors Throughout The World, Inc.
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…
The organization states that it provides or facilitates medical referrals, a free medical-treatment program, medications, funding or financial assistance, rehabilitation or counsel…
Burned Children Recovery Foundation
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 hospita…
Emotional support and financial aid for burned children and their families, including counseling, certain out-of-pocket medical and recovery costs, transportation and lodging for h…
Support intended to help burned children return to school and participate in school or outside activities, including school clothing and shoes and costs related to sports, dance, b…
Burns Recovered
Missouri-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving burn survivors, families, caregivers, and related professionals through burn-survivor peer support, hospital visits, camps and retreats, scholarships, financial assistance, and school/work re-entry…
Need-based assistance for burn survivors and families with recovery expenses. The official survivor-services page specifically states that Burns Recovered may assist with pressure-…
Burns Recovered offers a College/Trade School Scholarship for affiliated burn survivors, teens, and adults needing education or retraining support, plus the Jim Neff Passionship fo…
Children’s Burn Foundation
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. Curren…
No-cost assistance for low-income families facing short-term financial stress during a child’s burn recovery. Current materials specifically reference emergency support such as foo…
No-cost comprehensive support for child burn survivors and families, including reconstructive surgeries, specialized care, physical therapy, counseling, peer and family support, an…
DC Firefighters Burn Foundation
A firefighter-founded nonprofit established in 2004 that works to prevent burns and improve the quality of life of burn survivors through burn-care funding, recovery and aftercare support, retreats, burn camps, family assistance, education,…
Support for burn survivors and families after hospitalization, including aftercare and reentry initiatives, survivor and family gatherings, peer-support training, and support for l…
Immediate assistance for families of injured firefighters, including travel, lodging, meals, and emotional support while the firefighter is hospitalized.
Finger Lakes Regional Burn Association Camps & Retreats
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 an…
Case-by-case financial and practical assistance for families during extensive burn hospitalizations. The official support page describes possible help with housing, gas, parking, f…
FLRBA describes sponsoring approximately 7-10 individuals to attend the Phoenix Society World Burn Congress, an international burn-survivor and professional conference with therape…
Fire & Burn Foundation
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 assist…
Limited financial assistance for eligible burn survivors seeking to attend support services outside the Foundation's service region, including youth or adult retreats, family camps…
Emergency and short-term lodging for low-income families of burn patients receiving treatment at the Edward G. Hirschman Burn Center, with possible transportation to and from the b…
Assistance related to burn-survivor recovery, including special equipment not covered by insurance such as pressure garments, burn-survivor retreats and conferences, counseling and…
Firefighters Burn Institute
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…
Interactive recovery and personal-growth retreat for adults affected by serious burn injuries, with participation by a partner or caregiver. The program provides connection with ot…
Educational scholarship for burn survivors pursuing college, trade school, or technical school. Applicants must have participated in FFBI programs, events, or services and have bee…
Support for burn-injured firefighters and their families, including peer and emotional support, PTSD-treatment resources, meals, housing, special arrangements, and funding to atten…
Limited scholarships for burn survivors and burn-care professionals to attend the Phoenix Society’s World Burn Congress. Scholarships typically cover approved airfare, hotel costs,…
Firefighters for Healing
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 fam…
A Minneapolis emergency-housing and family-support program with 12 fully furnished suites for qualifying immediate family members of burn survivors or firefighters/first responders…
Firefighters of Southern Nevada Burn Foundation
A Southern Nevada firefighter-led 501(c)(3) organization supporting burn survivors, families, and residents affected by fires and catastrophic events. Its Burn Survivor Initiative helps connect survivors and families with support groups, co…
The Foundation’s principal burn-survivor program. Official descriptions state that it supplies burn survivors with necessary equipment and gear, partners with local burn units to c…
An official intake pathway through which survivors or guardians can request financial assistance, support groups, recreational programs such as camps and activities, burn-recovery …
Firefighters Quest for Burn Survivors
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 center…
Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation, Inc.
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 includ…
Educational assistance for burn survivors planning to attend or currently attending an accredited university, college, or technical college. Historical requirements indicate docume…
Grossman Burn Foundation
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 inter…
Medical tattooing and scar-camouflage services intended to help burn survivors with pigmentation changes and restoration of features such as lip color and eyebrows. The page identi…
Community partnership and outreach work focused on burn prevention, public education, and support for burn victims and families undergoing treatment at Grossman Burn Centers in Cal…
Patient-assistance program providing, for qualifying burn survivors and families, possible medical treatment, physical therapy, psychotherapy, medical tattooing, housing and meals,…
Hennepin Healthcare Burn Center
A specialized burn-care center within Hennepin Healthcare/HCMC providing comprehensive care for adults and children with thermal injuries, frostbite, hypothermia, and specialized wound-care needs. Services include acute inpatient burn treat…
Official Hennepin Healthcare referral materials identify outpatient acute burn and wound care for minor burns. The materials do not provide enough detail to independently verify a …
Hoosier Burn Camp
Indiana 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing supportive, recreational, developmental, peer-oriented, and family-focused experiences for burn survivors from infancy through young adulthood. Programs include annual summer camp, family outings and ga…
Educational financial support for burn survivors pursuing higher education or training, including college, university, trade school, apprenticeship, GED, licensing, or certificatio…
IAFF Foundation
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 for temporary emergency expenses when a current IAFF member or an immediate family member suffers a burn injury requiring admission to a burn center. Potential…
Illinois Fire Safety Alliance (Camp I Am Me)
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 organizatio…
Listed on the official Survivor Programs page as a Camp I Am Me survivor-related program, but a current standalone description, eligibility rules, award details, and application st…
Johns Hopkins Adult Burn Center at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
The Johns Hopkins Adult Burn Center is a comprehensive burn-care center at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center serving adults and older adolescents with burn injuries. The center provides inpatient burn intensive care, burn and wound care,…
Inpatient burn intensive care and burn/wound step-down care for patients age 15 and older, supported by burn surgeons, intensivists, nurses, rehabilitation specialists, psychologis…
Johns Hopkins Pediatric Burn Center at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
Johns Hopkins Pediatric Burn Center 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.
Hospital-based multidisciplinary care for children with larger or more complicated burns, including care in the PICU or specialized burn acute-care unit, wound care, nutritional su…
24/7 emergency assessment and treatment for pediatric burn injuries, including pain relief, wound care, discharge instructions, supplies, and follow-up planning.
Integrated recovery services including physical and occupational therapy, pain management, psychology and psychiatry, child-life support, social work, case management, home-resourc…
Leon S. Peters Burn Center at Community Regional
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 suppor…
Burn and wound-management services that include hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Official materials describe treatment of burns and other wounds and provide separate referral contacts fo…
Memorial Burn Care at Springfield Memorial Hospital
Memorial Burn Care at Springfield Memorial Hospital provides specialized multidisciplinary care for acute burn injuries and recovery. Services include state-of-the-art burn treatment, wound-healing and surgical care, hydrotherapy facilities…
Transportation coordination for Memorial Burn Care patients by ground ambulance, helicopter, or fixed-wing transport.
Mid-Atlantic Burn Camp, Inc.
A nonprofit organization serving young burn survivors and their families through a therapeutic residential summer camp and year-round activities addressing physical, psychological, and social adjustment after burn injury.
Scholarships for young burn survivors who have participated in the Summer Camp program and want to attend college or vocational training.
Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC)
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 co…
A free, nationwide online collection of research-based burn-rehabilitation education developed by MSKTC in collaboration with Burn Model System researchers. Current topics include …
North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center
The North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center at UNC Medical Center is an American Burn Association-verified adult and pediatric burn center providing specialized acute burn treatment and comprehensive recovery services. Its multidisciplinary care …
Financial assistance for burn patients and families during treatment, including help with gas, food, and lodging. The fund is associated with the Burn Center but may depend on dona…
Orange County Global Medical Center Burn Center
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…
Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation, Inc.
A Wisconsin nonprofit foundation with statewide programming that supports burn survivors of all ages and stages of recovery, including free youth burn camp, young-adult leadership opportunities, scholarships, grants for outside burn-survivo…
Educational and career-readiness scholarships for burn survivors who have participated in PFFWCF Burn Survivor Support programming and are continuing education or training through …
Program-specific grants that may help Wisconsin burn survivors attend outside burn-community programming, including World Burn Congress and IAFF Burn Camp. The official page says a…
Rhode Island Burn Center at Rhode Island Hospital (RIBC)
The Rhode Island Burn Center at Rhode Island Hospital is Brown University Health's adult and pediatric burn-care center and Rhode Island's only accredited or American Burn Association-verified burn center. It provides comprehensive care acr…
Pediatric burn services through Hasbro Children's, including evaluation and treatment of minor through life-threatening burns, wound care, major burn surgery, critical care, emerge…
San Jose Fire Fighters Burn Foundation
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 survi…
Foundation support for burn-unit equipment and patient-related items. Santa Clara Valley Medical Center reports that the foundation works with the burn unit to provide equipment, p…
Financial assistance for families affected by burn injury. The official page identifies this service but does not specify covered expenses, maximum assistance, income requirements,…
Shriners Children's Northern California
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 an…
Family-centered practical support associated with treatment, including pediatric social-worker counseling, assistance with lodging and other needs, free transportation options, no-…
A verified pediatric burn center providing comprehensive care for children with burns of all severities and types. Services include initial burn management, critical care, wound co…
Shriners Children's Ohio Burn Center
Shriners Children's Ohio is a pediatric specialty-care facility in Dayton, Ohio, specializing in burn care, complex wound and skin conditions, plastic and reconstructive surgery, and related pediatric services. Its multidisciplinary and fam…
Complimentary transportation assistance may be available through Shriners temple volunteer Road Runners, who can transport a child and one family member to and from treatment with …
Evaluation and treatment of pediatric burn injuries ranging from mild to severe, including outpatient burn care, wound-care assessment, multidisciplinary care planning, and follow-…
Shriners Children’s Texas
Shriners Children’s Texas is a pediatric specialty hospital in Galveston providing highly specialized burn care and related services for children. Its verified pediatric burn center provides acute, reconstructive and rehabilitative care for…
Family-centered support connected with pediatric treatment, including child-life services, care management, nutrition services, transportation assistance, family housing/lodging an…
A verified pediatric burn center providing specialized care for acute burns of different types and severities, including chemical, electrical and flame burns. Treatment may include…
South Carolina Firefighters Burned Children’s Fund
A South Carolina charitable program operating under the South Carolina Firefighters Foundation that supports burn-injured children and their families, provides burn-care and fire-safety education, supports burn centers and care providers, a…
A grant program providing assistance to participating organizations that conduct burn-awareness and fire-prevention educational activities. The official programs page states that t…
Direct support for burn-injured children and their families during hospitalization and recovery. Documented assistance includes caregiver comfort kits, travel assistance for burn-c…
The Burn Institute
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 membe…
The Burn Institute provides an application-based resource-assistance process for burn survivors or affected households. The official resources page instructs applicants to email ls…
UCI Health Regional Burn Center
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 fo…
UCI Health identifies survivor holiday parties, summer picnics and other gatherings or workshops that build survivor community, along with scholarships to attend the annual World B…
University of Utah Health Burn Center
A verified regional burn center providing specialized inpatient and outpatient burn care, burn surgery, wound care, burn therapy and rehabilitation, scar and laser treatment, pediatric care, emotional and behavioral health support, case man…
Clinical social workers and behavioral-health professionals support burn inpatients, outpatients, and families through trauma education, coping strategies, mindfulness, cognitive b…
Specialized inpatient burn treatment at University of Utah Hospital, including interdisciplinary medical care, surgery, rehabilitation, emotional support, and family support for pa…
UofL Health – UofL Hospital Burn Center
UofL Health – UofL Hospital Burn Center provides multidisciplinary inpatient and outpatient care for people with burn injuries, complex wounds and related skin conditions. Services include acute burn treatment, wound care, hydrotherapy, lon…
Support for burn patients and families during recovery, including burn social-work crisis intervention, therapeutic interventions, referrals to community mental-health resources, c…
Washington State Council of Fire Fighters Burn Foundation
Washington nonprofit burn foundation supporting burn survivors and families through Camp Eyabsut and practical assistance that may include lodging, meals, clothing, toiletries and travel expenses.
Practical assistance for burn survivors and families that may include lodging, meals, clothing, toiletries and travel expenses while navigating burn treatment and recovery.