Salamanders Young Burn Survivors > Links: other sites of interest

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

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

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/

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 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/

Email Support Groups

Burn Foundation Australia Moderated Email List
http://www.burnfoundation.org.au/Content_Common/pg-Moderated-Email-List.seo

Burn Survivors Online Email Support Group
http://www.burnsurvivorsonline.com/e-lists/

BSTTW E-List (for BSTTW members only)
http://www.burnsurvivorsttw.org/membership/joinemail.html?

BSTTW News Update E-List (for BSTTW members only)
http://www.burnsurvivorsttw.org/membership/joinupdatemail.html

BSTTW Religious Healing E-List
http://www.burnsurvivorsttw.org/membership/joinhealingemail.html

BSTTW Teen E-List
http://www.burnsurvivorsttw.org/membership/jointeenemail.html?

E-lista de español de BSTTW
http://www.burnsurvivorsttw.org/membership/joinspanishemail.html

This is the first of four pages in this section.
Page 2 has links to Helpful Books for Children.
Page 3 has links to Helpful Books for Older Teens and Adults.
Page 4 has links to Burn Survivors Biographical Books.