Professional Fire Fighters Of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation

Programs: The burn survivor support program serves more than 100 burn survivors of all ages, in all stages of recovery annually. The week long summer camp for burn injured youth or "burn camp" is a continuation of care program that provides a fun summer camp experience while creating a sense of community and network of support. This promotes emotional healing for kids with life changing burn injuries. Burn camp provides for the unique needs of young burn survivors and is primarily for kids ages 7 to 17 with an explorers day camp program for kids under the age of 7 or not ready to stay overnight, and a young adult leadership program (yalp) that promotes leadership and life skills while transitioning former campers ages 18-20 into the next chapter of their lives and/or into a burn camp staff role. The winter leadership program is a weekend retreat for young adult burn survivors and promotes life experience through service learning, leadership skills, and life skills. We also collaborate and provide support to all 3 wisconsin burn centers, administer academic scholarship for burn survivors, and provide scholarships for burn survivors and staff to attend national conferences and programming to promote further healing, improve our programming and better serve wisconsin burn survivors.

fire fighter support programming supports fire fighters as the pillars of support in their communities and as an essential element for creating a fire safe and burn free wisconsin. We promote and support initatives to increase the health, safety, and wellness of fire fighters. We provide disaster assistance to fire fighters going through personal hardships and advocacy to increase their safey and health. We provide, coordinate, and facilitate training opportunties and recognize fire departments, fire fighters, and individuals for their excellence in fire safety. We support initiatives that honor and memorialize fire fighers. Community support programming supports the betterment of wisconsin communities through grant making, program support, and collaborative initiatives related to our organization and programming as determined by our board of directors. This programming includes supporting and enhancing the good work fire fighters do in their communities both on and off duty.

fire prevention programming is aimed at creating a fire safe and burn free wisconsin. The fire safety newspapers in education (nie) program is a special edition newspaper we produce in collaboration with the milwaukee journal sentinel (mjs) and fire safety experts from around the unitied states. More than 500,000 copies are printed and are either inserted into the sunday edition of the mjs to commence fire prevention week or are distributed to more than 2,100 schools with a copy provided for every 4th - 8th grade student in wisconsin to use in the classroom and take home and share with their families. The nie program spans more than six months with fire safety poster contests, teacher essay contests, and school visits and award presentations. We also provide program management and support for the wisconsin smoke alarm fire education (wissafe) coalition's statewide smoke alarm installation program and the wisconsin fire sprinkler coalition that is working to identify and overcome the barriers to the acceptance of fire sprinklers in homes. We also attend conferences, fire department open houses, and other events showcasing our programs, providing education, and providing fire safety information and materials.