Salamanders Young Burn Survivors > Links: Other Sites

The Burn Prevention page on Massachusetts General Hospital's website is a comprehensive safety guide, with sections on: Burn prevention in the kitchen, Using the microwave oven safely, Preventing scald burns, Surviving a fire in your home, Burn prevention while camping, and more.
http://www.massgeneral.org/burns/additionalinfo/burn.prevention.htm

Burn Survivors Support Zone: "The Burn Survivor Support Zone is for those who have suffered injuries due to burns but its also for their family and friends. Please feel free to share your story or just vent any frustrations that you may have..."
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/BurnSurvivorsSupportZone/

Disability Resources is a nonprofit organization that monitors, reviews, and reports on a wide variety of disability information resources every day: legal rights, financial resources, assistive technology, employment opportunities, housing modifications, childrearing and educational options, transportation and mobility services, and more.
http://www.disabilityresources.org/

The Fire Kills website is an Internet resource offering comprehensive fire safety information, including lifestyle-specific fire safety information for people with special needs, parents and childcarers.
http://www.firekills.gov.uk/

Fire Safety, from Cornwall County Fire Brigade, has comprehensive information and advice on protecting your home from fire, smoke alarms and residential sprinklers, how to escape from a fire in your home, small boat fire safety, barbecue safety, fire safety for caravanners and campers, and more.
http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=723

Hurting Angels Support Forum: "This is your place. I want it to be a happy site and a place that you will want to visit often. I want your ideas and your stories. I want you to share the positive things that have come into your life in spite of, or because of, your burns. I think this is so important to our new survivors. It is also important for non-burn survivors to realize how valuable and what an important part of society we are."
http://www.thehurtingangels.com/messageboard.htm

Operation Respect: Don't Laugh at Me is a non-profit organization working to transform schools, camps and organizations focused on children and youth into more compassionate, safe and respectful environments. Founded by Peter Yarrow of the folk group Peter, Paul & Mary, the organization disseminates educational resources that are designed to establish a climate that reduces the emotional and physical cruelty some children inflict upon each other by behaviors such as ridicule, bullying and - in extreme cases - violence.
http://www.dontlaugh.org/

The Phoenix Society's World Burn Congress: Each year burn survivors, family members, health care professionals, firefighters and others come together for four days of sharing and connecting. "We encourage anyone who is either a burn survivor or family member, or someone who is interested in the welfare of burn survivors to attend the next World Burn Congress."
http://www.phoenix-society.org/

The Safe Kids Worldwide global network currently includes sixteen member countries: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Israel, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, UAE, USA, Uganda, and Vietnam. The mission of Safe Kids Worldwide is to prevent unintentional injury to children around the world. Safe Kids creates culturally specific grassroots safety initiatives by building the necessary infrastructure and capacity to prevent this leading cause of death to children.
http://www.safekidsworldwide.org/

SkinCell International Forum for Skin Disorders - "An international non-profit discussion forum open to sufferers, their family and friends. Here at SkinCell we have attempted to make available to all skin sufferers and their families an open and free forum where they can discuss any skin disorder or disease they choose. Guests are welcome to view any area of the forum but membership is required in order to post any messages." Forum topics can be very varied, and include: keloids, laser surgery, and skin grafting.
http://www.skincell.org/

SOS FIRES: Youth Intervention Programs - The Youth Firesetting Intervention Resource Site includes a Parent/Teacher Resource Page with helpful information for those in need, although their primary goal is to provide useful information for professionals who work with youth firesetting behaviors or within intervention programs.
http://www.sosfires.com/

State of Grace: portraits of burn survivors by Doug Auld is a project inspired by the "desire to bring upon a positive evolution to the hidden world of burn survivors and the parameters of beauty in society." "With the making of these paintings, I hope the viewer will look, stare and examine these works so as to confront our fears and assumptions based on our exterior."
http://dougauld.com/

The Survivor Profiler - "You’re just moments away from discovering your Survivor IQ and top tools for handling any crisis. The Survivor Profiler was designed by a team of leading experts and psychologists to measure your survivor personality and strengths. The questions are based on in-depth interviews with real-life survivors around the world. When you’re finished, the Profiler will generate a custom report on your Survivor personality."
http://www.survivorstrengths.com/

The World Institute on Disability is a non-profit research, training and public policy centre promoting the civil rights and the full societal inclusion of people with disabilities.
http://www.wid.org/