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Partnerships
International Center for Disaster Resilience
The International Center for Disaster Resilience (ICDR) has devoted its resources and extraordinary personnel to the design, development and practice of the fusion of state of the art emergency medical and psychosocial interventions that allow the service provider and the patient to access resilient recovery in shorter periods of time with less invasive care. ICDR provides the Boston Childrens Foundation with the medical expertise and the disaster behavioral health expertise to respond to disaster management challenges across diverse settings with a particular focus on children and long term child protection post disaster.
International Board for the Advancement of Medicine (IBAM)
The International Board for the Advancement of Medicine (IBAM) was founded on the premise of fostering collaboration between the greatest minds in medicine and medical education across the globe. IBAM has joined with BCF to foster the education and ongoing credentialing for the fusion of the principles and practices between emergency and disaster medicine and psychosocial stabilization and recovery, with a unique and concentrated focus on developing nations and systems of care for children and youth who remain at risk in impoverished and underdeveloped economies.
Operational Medicine Institute
The Operational Medicine Institute (OMI) provides critical mission support and training to medical personnel, humanitarians, first responders, and disaster response personnel serving on humanity's frontiers. The four pillars of OMI– humanitarian intervention, disaster preparedness and response, operational medical support and unconventional diplomacy–are designed to capture the increasingly interwoven nature of complex humanitarian emergencies.
Massachusetts -Department of Mental Health (DMH)
The Massachusetts Department of Mental Health has supported BCF since its inception in 1996 by sustaining federal block grants and supplementary grants that are utilized for acute psychological stabilizations in Massachusetts and the New England region. DMH has provided to BCF access to clients, staff, Commissioners, office support and academia, allowing BCF to train over 6,000 credentialed psychosocial disaster responders throughout the United States. Over the last six years, with the ongoing support of DMH and the credentialed disaster responders, the Boston Childrens Foundation has been able to provide acute psychological trauma services to over 3,580 service recipients.