Peer support

Meetings and workshops during the thermal spa camps in Spa – organised for adults by Stichting Brandwonden and for children by Pinocchio – led to contacts springing up spontaneously between patients. We also want to create a meeting place as part of the rehabilitation programme, so that you, as patients, can make more time for each other. More time than the short weekly encounters before or after treatment at Oscare.

All this led us to bring these informal contacts together under the name ’t Praat(v)uurtje.

Our goal – connection

Peer support is something that has to grow within an organisation. First and foremost, it starts with people who have lived experience: the patients who, together with professional staff, put together a programme of activities.

At ’t Praat(v)uurtje, we want to give our patients the chance to get together with fellow patients around four times a year. All burns patients and patients who have scars (e.g. after an accident) are invited. This way they can exchange tips and experiences with each other. Our aim is not to organise therapeutic group sessions, although these may also be part of the activities.

Our goal – support

Talking to and asking questions of people who are further along in their rehabilitation, or who started their aftercare at the same time as you, can be therapeutic and healing in itself.

• bringing together people with scars and burns

• providing information

• organising activities that promote integration into society

• offering mutual support

• setting up a buddy system to give severely burned patients in hospital (and their families) the chance to talk to someone who has been through it all

• and of course simply enjoying each other’s company!

Join us or discover our activities.

Our goal – accessibility

Below you’ll find an overview of our activities. Would you like to stay up to date on the activities we organise for fellow patients? Leave your details in the form at the bottom of the page and we’ll keep you informed.