Uniform Recovery
A Uniform Families Foundation Program
Uniform Recovery
For firefighters, paramedics, law enforcement officers, medical workers, and service members and veterans who were hurt doing the job, and for the families carrying them through recovery. The call ended. The healing did not. We stay for the part nobody sees.
You carried everyone else. Let us carry you for a while.Different Injuries. Same Roof.
A firefighter's back does not break the way a veteran's does. A paramedic hurt lifting a patient and an officer hurt in a pursuit are not living the same recovery. Uniform Recovery is one program with one door, and once you walk through it you are placed with people from your own pillar who understand your injury from the inside.
Who This Is For
Members of all five uniform pillars who were injured on the job or in service, whether they are on recovery leave, on light duty, medically retired, or carrying a service connected injury years later. Spouses and family members may reach out on their behalf.
Just Injured
The first weeks, when the paperwork starts, the paycheck changes, and the house still has to run.
In the Long Middle
Surgeries, therapy, appointments across town, and a recovery that is taking longer than anyone promised.
Living With It
Medically retired or a veteran whose injury did not end when the service did. Recovery does not have an expiration date here.
What UFF Provides
Practical help for the recovery months, reviewed privately by UFF leadership. Financial help is for members on reduced pay or unpaid leave, because that is where the gap opens.
One Bill Paid
During reduced pay or unpaid recovery leave, UFF pays one bill, utility, car, insurance, or rent shortfall, so the injury does not become a second emergency.
The Appointment Months
Gas, parking, and meal gift cards for the stretch when life is a calendar of appointments and the hospital garage is the most expensive place in town.
Home Help
Yard work, house cleaning, a grocery run, or a handyman visit for the things you cannot do with a cast, a brace, or a body that needs rest.
Two Care Packages
One for the member and one for the spouse or partner, because recovery is a two person job and the second person is usually running on empty.
Counseling
Recovery is mental as much as physical. The Counseling Stipend covers sessions with a licensed professional outside your department or unit.
Your Children Are Covered
Children of injured members qualify for Trump Accounts for Uniform Kids and every Uniform Kids program we run.
Recovery Rooms by Pillar
Five private rooms on our community platform, one per pillar, so you talk recovery with people who got hurt doing what you do. Members are verified by UFF before they are placed. Rooms open soon.
How It Works
Three steps, and the member does not have to be the one who asks.
Reach Out
This form goes only to UFF leadership. Spouses and family members are welcome to fill it out for the injured member.
Stand With Them
Your gift pays the light bill during unpaid leave, fills the gas tank for the appointment months, sends someone to mow the lawn, and puts two care packages on the porch. Every dollar given here stays with Uniform Recovery.
Questions about the program: info@uniformfamiliesfoundation.com or (800) 349-1888, Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM Pacific.
If you are in crisis, call or text 988. If you are in immediate danger, call 911.
A Uniform Families Foundation program. Uniform Families Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 41-5063345.
