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Support Groups and Resources
UT Southwestern Medical Center has a caring staff of medical professionals who are committed to enhancing patients’ quality of life, as well as meeting the needs of patients’ families. We can direct patients to a variety of informative and enriching support groups and other resources, which can be tailored to meet their specific needs.
At UT Southwestern, excellence in patient care includes helping point the way to resources patients may not be familiar with, but which have proved invaluable to others. We trust these services will assist patients as they move forward on the road to healing and improved health.
Support Groups
Annual Children’s Camp
Since 1992, Parkland Health & Hospital System has sponsored an annual camp for children who have survived burn injuries. Camp I-Thonka-Chi, which is Choctaw for "a place that makes one strong or fearless, not afraid to face life,” is an opportunity for children ages 6 to 18 to interact with others who have burn injuries.
Parkland Burn Survivor Group
The Parkland Burn Survivor Group involves burn survivors and their families and friends coming together to discuss issues they have encountered during and after recovery. During monthly meetings, therapists from Parkland Health & Hospital System are available to answer questions about rehabilitation therapy and home exercise programs. Each meeting has a different theme.
Survivors Offering Assistance in Recovery (SOAR)
Research has shown that peer support and shared experiences can have a positive impact on one’s emotional and social adjustment after a traumatic injury and better enable patients to live productive lives after a severe injury. Survivors Offering Assistance in Recovery (SOAR) is a program designed by The Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors to provide peer support to those whose lives have been touched by a burn injury.
Web Sites
Medline Plus - Burns
Medline Plus is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The National Library of Medicine, on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., is the world's largest medical library.
The Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors
The Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors is a national nonprofit organization created to uplift and inspire anyone affected by a burn injury through peer support, education, collaboration and advocacy.
