It takes a village to support a family through a child’s medical journey. Join us in making sure no family walks it alone.
Community Partners
Neighbors, families, volunteers, and supporters who bring the heart of the village to life.
When families enter the world of pediatric medical crisis, they often feel alone, overwhelmed, and unsure of where to turn. Community partners are the people who show them they’re not facing this journey by themselves.
Community support fuels nearly every aspect of our work, from providing meals and travel assistance to helping siblings feel seen and supported. Whether you give monthly, volunteer your time, or host a fundraiser, you become part of a network that steps in with comfort and care when families need it most.
How Community Partners Make a Difference
Your partnership helps provide:
- Meals during long hospital days
- Fuel cards for urgent medical travel
- One or more nights of safe lodging
- Care packages and emotional support for siblings
- Holiday support, family outreach, or volunteer services
Every act of kindness – small or large – has a direct impact on a family’s stability and wellbeing.
Corporate & Organizational Partners
Corporate and organizational partners help us meet urgent family needs today while building the long-term infrastructure of tomorrow. Through sponsorships, grants, employee engagement programs, in-kind donations, and cause-marketing campaigns, organizations of all sizes play a powerful role in carrying families through the toughest moments of their lives.
How Corporate Partners Support Families
Your partnership can:
- Fund travel, lodging, and meal assistance for families in crisis
- Support sibling trauma therapy and mental health services
- Contribute to capital projects like our Lodge and future Village
- Provide in-kind services (hotel rooms, meals, design, printing, consulting, tech)
- Engage employees through give-back days, matching gifts, or team fundraising
Corporate philanthropy becomes a lifeline for families facing impossible choices.
Strategic Benefits for Your Organization
- Strengthened community impact & visibility
- Employee pride and increased engagement
- Public recognition across HTHV channels
- Clear alignment with family-centered, trauma-informed care
- Participation in groundbreaking work supporting medically fragile families
Partnership Opportunities
- Program Sponsorships
- Annual Corporate Sponsorships
- Event Sponsorships
- In-Kind Donations & Services
- Capital Campaign Partnerships
- Employee Giving Programs
- Cause Marketing (Percentage-of-sale campaigns, round-up campaigns, etc.)
Why Corporate Partners Matter
Families cannot wait for better systems because they need reliable support now. Corporate partners allow us to scale services quickly, sustainably, and with dignity. Your organization can change the story for families in crisis.
Healthcare, Foundation & Strategic Partners
Mission-critical partners shaping the future of family-centered support and trauma-informed care.
Medical crises don’t happen in isolation because they create ripple effects across the entire family. Through formal collaborations with hospitals, medical practices, trauma therapy networks, universities, foundations, and government agencies, we help close the gap between what medical teams can offer and what families actually need.
These partnerships allow us to meet families at the right time, in the right place, with the right support, from diagnosis to treatment, through recovery, and into long-term healing.
How These Partners Expand Our Impact
Together, we can:
- Identify families earlier through hospital referrals
- Provide lodging, meals, and travel assistance for out-of-town treatment
- Strengthen care coordination through family advocacy
- Deliver evidence-based trauma therapy for parents and siblings
- Participate in research, quality improvement, and clinical training
- Build long-term healing spaces like the Family Lodge and Village
- Ensure services remain compliant, ethical, and backed by clinical evidence
Partnership Opportunities
- Hospital & clinic referral pathways
- Overflow housing partnerships (e.g., Ronald McDonald House collaborations)
- Behavioral health & trauma therapy partnerships (CPTS, NCTSN, etc.)
- Foundation grants & program funding
- Government support through agencies like HRSA, SAMHSA, and ACF
- Academic research collaborations
- Internships & field placements in social work, psychology, nursing, nonprofit management
Why These Partners Matter
Healthcare teams save lives.
Together, we support the ones standing beside the child: exhausted parents, frightened siblings, and families desperately trying to stay whole. These partnerships make it possible to provide comprehensive, wraparound, trauma-informed care that reaches far beyond hospital walls and supports families through the entire journey.
You help us build a compassionate system where no family slips through the cracks.
Why Partnership Matters
Your partnership does more than provide resources. It transforms a family’s experience during the hardest chapter of their lives.
Because of partners, families receive:
- A safe place to stay near the hospital
- A meal during a 12-hour hospital day
- Fuel to get to lifesaving appointments
- Trauma support for siblings and parents
- A caring advocate when they feel overwhelmed
Every partnership helps us bring families back to solid ground during a moment of crisis.
Join us. Stand with them. Be part of the village.