Creating Ties Event
Ties that bind
Creating Ties Dinner & Auction
With Western Formal as the attire, the 2024 Creating Ties dinner was held Friday, November 1st at Empower Field at Mile High. We are incredibly thankful to those who joined us in-person, made a donation, donated or purchased a silent auction item, and/or sponsored this year’s Creating Ties dinner. It was an incredible evening of connecting with camp friends and hearing from campers about their medical journeys. The evening featured Empower Field at Mile High experiences, a cocktail reception with dinner, silent and live auction, an inspirational camp program, and post party. We’re excited to announce we raised over $180,000!
Monies raised will go to the Thrive Endowment which ensures any child who has sustained a burn injury has the opportunity to attend Burn Camp long into the future. Thanks again for joining us for a fun evening filled with friends, food, libations, auction, and the power of camp. It’s not too late to be apart of this amazing fundraising event. Click the button to donate or contact Tim Schuetz at (720) 777-6292 or [email protected].
Thank you to our 2024 sponsors
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Thrive Endowment
In 2020, we started an endowment dedicated to the lives of pediatric burn survivors and the power of camp. Keating Wagner Polidori Free PC donated seed money to the Children’s Hospital Colorado Burn Camps Program to create an endowed fund. The Thrive Endowment ensures any child who has sustained a burn injury has the opportunity to attend Burn Camp long into the future.
Because an endowment is an invested pool of money that provides a reliable source of income in perpetuity, our program can count on annual distributions from the fund. This provides independence from internal and external forces allowing us to continue to provide excellent programming to any child and/or family that has sustained a burn injury.
Because the Thrive Endowment can accept additional contributions from individuals, over time financial support will continue to grow. All gifts enable us to continue to provide camp at no cost to families in perpetuity. Click here to donate to the Thrive Endowment online. For additional questions please contact Tim Schuetz at (720) 777-6292 or [email protected].
Community Events
We provide and participate in a wide range of events including, community, fundraising, prevention, awareness, conferences, and continuing education for medical professionals. Annually, we host community support activities for families healing from a burn injury. In 2020, we were able to hold our annual ice skating community event at WinterSkate in Louisville, CO on February 1st. Typically we hold additional community events throughout the year at different locations around Denver. Our community events provide opportunities to connect families to other families, the fire service, and community partners.
Burn Awareness Week, organized by the American Burn Association, is observed the first full week in February and is a window of opportunity for organizations to mobilize burn, fire and life safety educators to unite in sharing a common burn awareness and prevention message in our community.
Youth Firesetting Evaluation and Treatment Program
The Youth Firesetting Evaluation and Treatment Program was designed in response to the need for specialized community services addressing youth misusing fire. The program focuses on helping youth make safer decisions. Due to health restrictions, we were not able to conduct multifamily interventions, so met with families individually or via video and/or telehealth.
We evaluate and treat patients with injuries from the misuse of fire, candles, electricity, lightbulbs, chemicals, and fireworks, and help families develop safety plans. We receive community referrals from fire departments, schools, mental health services, juvenile justice and parents of children exhibiting high-risk fire setting behavior. Families receive mental health intervention for these high-risk behaviors to help prevent burn injuries and enhance community safety.
Important Camp Dates
Winter Camp
February 3 – 7, 2025
Family Camp
June 21 – 25, 2025
Summer Camp
August 12 – 18, 2025
Creating Ties
Early November 2025