Children's Burn Foundation
Giving New Hope
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Burns continue to be one of the top leading causes of death in children under the age of 14. Scalds are one of the top injuries treated in the emergency rooms for children under the age of five. 3655 people lost their lives during 2018 from fire and burns and 360 of them were children. Most of these could have been prevented. We address the needs of the entire family by providing medical care, help with accommodations, transportation, in addition to support groups for the entire family that includes psycho social help. We are the only foundation that provides care from the time of their burn until they are 18 years of age. Additionally, we know that prevention is the key so we have burn/fire prevention educators that are in over 150 elementary schools, hospitals, libraries, and much more. Our education program, L.A. Troupe, has reached over 1 million children in the past 15 years.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Full Recovery Program
Resources provided by the Children's Burn Foundation to help both physical and psychosocial needs include reconstructive surgeries, prescriptions and medications, transportation, accommodations, food, clothing, educational assistance, orthodox devices, pressure garments, and facemasks, support groups, day camps, and holiday parties. Programs also include preventive and professional education.
Prevention & Education Program
At the same time that we are supporting the recovery of children who have suffered tragic and severe burns, we are also actively pursuing ways to prevent as many burn incidents to children as possible. As part of our Prevention and Education program, L.A. Troupe Safety Smart is an interactive theater group that visits schools throughout the Los Angeles School District, teaching children how to respond to smoke alarms and house fires and how to prevent burns. Careful, That's Hot! is another program designed to teach caregivers of young children how to prevent scalding and burns. New prevention and education programs are in development.
International Outreach
The Foundation continues its mission to heal children through the International Outreach Program, which is dedicated to improving the capacity of developing countries to treat young burn survivors. In partnership with the American Burn Association, the Foundation supports an American burn team, consisting of a burn surgeon, nurse, and physical or occupational therapist. U.S. medical teams have traveled to sites in India and Zambia to enhance the knowledge of local health providers and establish their ability to successfully treat burn injuries. The skills they learned by local doctors and nurses reduce infection, promote healing and dramatically improve the outcomes of the children treated at the hospital. We continue to work with medical partners in Nigeria, Ukraine, Pakistan, China, Nicaragua, to name a few.
Camp Gung Ho
Each summer, 3 camps are held for Burn Survivor Children and their siblings. Camps include fishing, surfing, arts & crafts, visits to Universal Studios and much more. This year, children were able to learn to surf in Malibu, attend the Magic Castle, and enjoy carnival games in the park
Holiday Party
More than 500 people come together at the rooftop in Pasadena to enjoy a theme center holiday celebration. Over 400 children, our burn survivor families, board members and council women bring joy and the holiday spirit to our families!
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
American Burn Association 2020
American Federation of Burn Foundation 2020
American Burn Association 2023
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of patient visits
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Full Recovery Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The full recovery program provides medical services, accommodations, emergency help and psycho social services for burn survivor children and their families.
Number of lessons taught
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Prevention & Education Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
FIre and Burn Prevention education is provided through an interactive theatrical group, LA Troupe. The 2020 numbers are lower due to Covid-19 and social distancing rules, cancellation of schools.
Number of grants received
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Full Recovery Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Grants supported the full recovery program to help our burn survivor children and their families.
Number of people on the organization's email list
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Prevention & Education Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of clients participating in support groups
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Full Recovery Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of clients who report a greater sense of purpose and improved overall wellness
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Full Recovery Program
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Children and family members report a greater sense of belonging when they participate in our programs.
Total number of volunteer hours contributed to the organization
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls, Men and boys, Children and youth
Related Program
Full Recovery Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Volunteers gather to raise funds to support the full recovery program, providing much needed medical services for burn survivor children, support for their families, and psychosocial needs.
Number of children who have access to education
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls, Men and boys, Children and youth
Related Program
Prevention & Education Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
64,000 children were provided burn prevention education through our programs including LA Troupe, Safety Smart Babies, and Careful That's Hot. Numbers are lower due to Covid-19 and school cancellation
Number of Facebook followers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls, Men and boys, Children and youth
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We use Facebook to honor our survivors, thank our donors, board and council. We also honor and memorialize our fire departments who have lost members.
Number of meal cards given to families while a child is staying in the hospital.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Full Recovery Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
To help families in need while their children are in the hospital for burn surgeries, care, and more.
Number of families served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls, Men and boys, Children and youth
Related Program
Holiday Party
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Children and their family members come together at Christmas where they are presented with gifts from Santa, food, in a carnival like atmosphere.
Number of pro bono hours contributed
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls, Men and boys, Children and youth
Related Program
Full Recovery Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We are grateful to those professionals who donate their expertise in order to support our programs.
Number of website pageviews
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Total number of classes offered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Prevention & Education Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The impact of our program is measured in many ways. Primarily we see the health and scars of child burn survivors improve as they receive treatment, Many go from life threatening burn injuries to healthy productive young people. We measure the mental health of our children and families in the the support groups we have for children, adults and teens. In addition, pre and post testing is conducted in our prevention and education programs and we are able to quantify the increase in burn safety knowledge our students have,
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We have a number of strategies for implemented in support of the program areas we embrace. In our Full Recovery areas, it is vital to the program's success and the recovery of our children that we treat the whole child. recognizing that a lifelong physical change has occurred we are as dedicated to healing the spirit and mind of the child as we are the physical scars. This strategy includes support groups, private counselling and a collaboration with all the medical teams, parents and immediate family.
In an effort to prevent burn injuries from ever happening we embrace a full compliment of prevention initiatives to try and reduce the number of children who get injured. We work collaboratively with the Los Angeles Unified Public School District, seeing more than 56,000 children annually. We are currently developing a burn safety/science exhibit at the California Science Center that will increase dramatically the number of children, in the most vulnerable target population, who can receive potentially life saving information.
So our strategy is consistent with our mission to prevent and to heal the whole child.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We are guided by professionals in the burn world and have affiliations and are members of the American Burn Association and the International Society of Burn Institutions. Our trained health educators, accredited child life specialists and therapists work with us in our programs. The doctors and burn hospitals are accredited burn units around the untited states and we have access to many additional burn centers aroound the world. Before we connect or send a child for treatment we have the burn center and medical team carefully evaluated to insure the best care possible for the child urn survivor.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
As we continue on our journey the number of children who are receiving care from the Children's Burn Foundation for medical care has grown from 14 children in 2010 to more than 550 children in 2015 and over 600 in 2019. The reach of our program is growing rapidly locally, nationally and internationally. Our prevention program has seen a growth during that same period from 27,000 children to 56,500 children in 2015. In 2019, our prevention programs reached a total of over 1 million children over the past twenty years.
With the California Science Center project and an increase in fundraising the growth of our agency is assured, as the need is critical.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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Operations
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Children's Burn Foundation
Board of directorsas of 09/13/2023
Kathy Toppino
Douglas Mancino
Seyfarth Shaw
William Bamattre
Retired Fire Chief
Michael Palmer
California Real Estate Regional Ctr "CaRE"
Sam Elliott
Actor
Carol Mancino
Community Leader
John F. Nickoll
Retired CEO
Charles Pratt
Writer, Television Producer
Dennis Alfieri
Sr. Real Estate Investment Consultant
Kathleen Toppino
Community Leader
Karen Dodge
Butler & Dodge, LLP
Eric Reimer
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP
Kara Lew Larew
Wedbush Morgan Securities, Inc., Vice President of Investments
Matt Ruderman
The Ruderman Group
Lynda Fadel
Attorney/Community Leader
Richard Frey
Nixon Peabody
William R Barrett
Retired CEO
Barbara Pratt
Council President, Community Leader
Adriana Balaban
Community Leader
Chief Gregory Barton
Chief, Beverly Hills Fire Dept.
Kate Freeman
Managing Director, Fiduciary Trust International
Pedro Marti
Sr. VP Investments & Sr. Financial Advisory Wealth Mgt., Wells Fargo
Ann Marie Mortimer
Managing Partner, Hunton & Williams
Fritz Coleman
Retired, NBC4 weatherman
Ginny Stevenson
Advocate/Community Leader
Dana Kitaj
Council President
Pedro Marti
Managing Director, Private Wealth Advisor,The Marti Group, Rockefeller Capital Management
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.