Burn Fund – BC Professional Fire Fighters Association Burn Fund

The Burn Fund is seeking community partners to enhance first responder health services by contributing funding for free access to occupationally aware, trauma-trained clinicians for BC’s front- line workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For years, the BC Professional Fire Fighters’ Association has undertaken significant work building partnerships and outreach to support resilience-building initiatives for their members.

In this time of pandemic, our hospital workers are experiencing trauma and are incredibly vulnerable to experiencing psychological injuries, similar to fire fighters and all first responders. Yet, today, when we speak about our health care workers, we speak about personal protective gear and additional testing. We are not addressing their mental health.

The BC Professional Fire Fighters’ Burn Fund is hoping to capitalize on this tremendous work to support all emergency workers during this pandemic and provide access to five fully funded sessions with a clinician, through specially-trained trauma clinicians at First Responder Health Services.

Hospital workers will have access to counselling through EAPs but, as our fire fighters have learned, these mainstream counsellors are often unable to relate to traumatic incidents of first responders and emergency workers.

Your donation to the Resilience Without Barriers Fund will support specially trained counselling for all emergency workers struggling with their mental health during the COVID-19 crisis.

Your Impact:

$105 provides 1 counselling session for an emergency worker
$525 provides 5 counselling session for an emergency worker
$1050 provides 5 counselling sessions each for two emergency workers

For more information, visit the Resilience Without Barriers website.

Join other adult burn survivors for a selection of virtual activities ranging from support groups, educational & creative workshops, yoga and social sessions focused on group healing, community and resilience building.

You may need us now, or in the future, but don’t forget we are always here – a strong community ready to empower and support burn survivors through their unique and individual journeys.

For more information, contact Kirstie McRae on kirstie@burnfund.org.

The Bright Nights 50/50 is back and brighter than ever with a potential jackpot of $1 million dollars. Winner takes half!

Tickets are 1 for $15, 3 for $40, or 6 for $60. With a deadline of New Year’s Eve, you could walk into 2022 a winner! Buy your tickets today.

Each year fire fighters from across the province come together to create a magical winter wonderland called Bright Nights in Stanley Park. This 24-year-tradition is the Burn Fund’s largest annual fundraising event. Proceeds enable the Burn Fund to offer programs, like Burn Camp for young burn survivors, free of charge year after year. 

The Bright Nights 50/50 was created in 2020 to recoup lost funds due to the cancellation of Bright Nights. This year the Bright Nights 50/50 continues as an extension of the beloved event. Last year’s jackpot reached an incredible $525,660 and this year’s jackpot could reach up to $1 million dollars! Buy your tickets today and support the charity of BC’s professional fire fighters.

Support the charity of BC’s professional fire fighters and buy your tickets today. Deadline is New Year’s Eve!