Our Partners
HeadStrong is grateful for the generosity of our partners. We collaborate with our community partners to create engaging, fun, and positive youth outings, social events, and trainings. The support of our funding partners is essential to meeting our mission and serving our youth and families.
HeadStrong’s Training Program would not be possible without the ground-breaking work of Mark Ylvisaker, PhD and Tim Feeney, PhD, who designed the New York State TBI Apprenticeship Program.
Special thanks to the following individuals who have generously donated to HeadStrong:
Jeff Tilden and Gordon Tilden, Thomas & Cordell, LLP
Will Smart, Keller Rohrback Law Offices
Tony Choppa, OSC Vocational Systems, Inc
Stuart Harper
Dr. Anne James, PhD, UPS
Mike Nelson NBLE Law
Dominick May-Douglass
Bobbi-jo Marlin
Danielle Purdy
Bertie Schumacher Foundation
Bertha Jean Olesen Schumacher, “Bertie” was a lifelong Washingtonian. She was born in Ferndale in 1931, graduated Salutatorian from Nooksack Valley High School, and attended WSU for 2 years. She moved to Seattle and worked for Boeing where she met her beloved husband Robert. “Bertie” loved children and animals. She was artistic and shared her talent by painting and worked with many noted artists in her framing business. The Bertie Schumacher Foundation continues her legacy of love and appreciation for children and nature.
We are grateful to the Bertie Schumacher Foundation for their generous support of three key HeadStrong programs: our Hospital Tote Bag Outreach, HeadStrong Training Program, and our Events.
Hospital Tote Bag Program
The Hospital Tote Bag program reaches out to families when their child is at the Harborview Medical Center (HMC) Pediatric ICU (PICU). Each tote includes practical and comforting items such as a blanket, personal care items, snacks, water bottle, notebook, pens, universal charging cords, and more. The tote also includes a HeadStrong booklet for families and community support organization brochures.
Many of the families connect with HeadStrong to participate in our family, caregiver, and social events after their child returns home. We wish none of the Totes were ever needed, but we are committed to continuing this valuable program in partnership with HMC to give much-needed support to families in the earliest days of their child’s injury.
Many thanks to Brian Johnston, MD MPH, Chief of Pediatrics for his support initiating the Pediatric Tote program and Carolyn Blayney, RN, Nurse Manager and Kathy Espey, RN, Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialists at HMC PICU for delivering our Totes to families since 2007.
