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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.
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Salamanders Young Burn Survivors.
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