Read this editorial in FireRescue Magazine about courageous burnsurvivors and how they inspire burn prevention efforts.
Listen to this NPR Talk of the Nation about burn survivors from the military
Burn Foundation services include:
We offer educational materials for families about the burn centers and burn recovery.
Burn Buddies to pediatric burn patients.*
We send young survivors to summer burn camp free of charge.
Our Burn Survivors Advisory Council guides us in designing programs important to the burn survivor community.
The Anapol Schwartz Family Mentorship Program, a peer-support program helps individuals and families through the healing process.
We are sometimes able to provide pressure garments to survivors that insurance companies do not cover.*
We have a blog for burn survivors and their families to tell their stories and connect with one another.
* Thanks to a grant from The Union Historical Fire Society.
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Hot Issue
Congratulations to
Burn Survivor
J. R. Martinez
Winner of Season 13
Dancing With The Stars!
Congratulations to J.R. Martinez for winning this season of ABC's Dancing With The Stars! J.R. is an inspirational burn survivor who is a talented public figure despite disfiguring scars from his burns.
J.R. is an Iraq war veteran, actor, and a motivational speaker. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors and has been very active within the burn survivor community. He is also an excellent dancer!
