Let’s Team Up

Partner with SeriousFun to expand programs and possibilities for kids with life-altering medical conditions and their families.

Get Involved / Partner – Programmatic Partnerships

Why Partner with SeriousFun?

Partnering with SeriousFun—whether as a program partner, hospital partner, referral partner, thought partner, or other collaborator—offers a unique opportunity to make a positive impact on the lives of children facing serious health challenges. Let’s go farther, together.

The Power of Partnership

We’re on a mission to build a world where every child with a serious medical condition can thrive—and that takes a village. Will you join us? Here’s what you can expect to gain from collaboration with us.

Become a Champion for Accessibility, Inclusion, and Fun

Incorporate tried and true, best-in-class practices for serving children with complex medical needs wherever you are—whether that’s at a camp, recreational program, healthcare facility, or beyond.

Bring SeriousFun to Your Community

Connect kids with complex medical needs, their families, and their communities to life-changing support through SeriousFun camps, programs, and approaches.

Network with Global Experts in Youth Development

Connect with leading youth development organizations and healthcare professionals committed to creating best-in-class programs for kids and families. These are the people who empower kids to transform an “I can’t” into an “I can.”

Access Educational Resources and Staff Training

Learn alongside experienced facilitators on topics of experiential and play-based learning, programmatic excellence, positive team culture, safety standards, child-centric care, and more.

The SeriousFun Partnership Experience

Partnering with SeriousFun gives any individual or organization an opportunity to learn from fresh and diverse perspectives, input into a global community that is doing such vital work, and reconnect with the ‘joy’ that we should all feel when working on our passions. No matter who you work with at SeriousFun, you are bound to connect with someone who truly cares about what they’re doing, the impact their work is having, and how they can squeeze a little more enjoyment out of it for everyone.

Emily Yates, Director, Head of Accessibility and Inclusive Design at Mima Group

We have been providing clinical care for kids for a long time, but this gave us an opportunity to work on their happiness, on their well-being, and also address some of the issues that are faced in the clinical program. So that makes our relationships with SeriousFun special because it plugged right in where we had a gap.

Ganesh Aylur Kailasam at YRG Center for AIDS Research and Education

What makes the partnership with SeriousFun and BIPAI so special is the fact that we are very mission driven. The values of the organization’s align, and when that happens, magic happens. We are able to work in ways that help foster collaboration, push the envelop for innovation, and at the end of the day provide more experiences that help children and adolescent come into themselves and become productive members of society.

Director of Global Programs at Baylor College of Medicine International Pediatric AIDS Initiative

Ready to Collaborate?

Interested in learning more about customizable, programmatic partnership opportunities? Let’s connect! Don’t miss the FAQs below to get immediate answers to common questions.

FAQ

Find answers to common questions about collaborating with SeriousFun.

We collaborate with youth-serving and healthcare organizations to create or strengthen camp and recreational programs. We also collaborate with services and organizations hoping to refer children living with serious illnesses to SeriousFun camps, and/or looking to deliver SeriousFun programming to children in various settings such as hospitals, clinics, classrooms, and community centers. In addition, we collaborate with experts to offer learning opportunities to staff across our Network. We also gather youth-focused organizations to learn together and share resources.

If your patient or client base is located in a specific geography, we recommend using our Find a Camp page to identify the SeriousFun camp closest to your patients and clients. Once there, you will find website links and contact information for each camp.

Each organization or individual aspiring to build a camp or collaborate with SeriousFun to launch a camp program must meet a number of requirements. These requirements are designed to ensure that camps continue to operate at the highest level of financial, programmatic, and medical standards possible. Requirements include but are not limited to: non-profit, charitable status and a board of directors, staffing capacity, strategic plan, financial health, partnerships with the local medical community, demonstrated local need, access to an accessible site/venue, compliance with safety standards and local regulatory requirements, and the ability to offer programs to children and their families free of charge. Please submit an inquiry to begin exploring possibilities with us. We would love to hear from you!

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SeriousFun does not directly launch new camps. Instead, we partner with individuals and organizations who wish to start their own camps. Each SeriousFun camp operates as an independent organization, responsible for funding its development and ongoing operations.