Partnerships Matter
Partnership is essential to success in any support setting, and perhaps even more so in the pediatric world. For over seventy years, FHSR has worked with organizations on the forefront of pediatric hearing loss care and support. The Foundation places the highest priority on its strategic partnerships, working in tandem with hospitals, clinics, schools and other non-profit organizations to deliver the highest-quality programming to deaf and hard of hearing kids.
FHSR continues to seek out and vet potential partners to help us support our mission and vision, creating life-changing service programs and outreach for our community.
FHSR is proud to partner with local music schools and schools to offer create the Music To My Ears scholarship which offers deaf and hard of hearing children access to the power and joy of music through early childhood music enrichment classes, instrument lessons, and group music classes.Â
Music Makers of Western Springs
Community School for the Arts – Wheaton
Encore Music Academy – Crystal Lake
Tiny Toes Music – LaGrange, Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Burr Ridge, Clarendon Hills
Music & Movement – GCCNS – Glenview
School of Rock – Glenview, Northbrook
FHSR also partners with schools to offer classroom-based music enrichment in deaf and hard of hearing classrooms.
Bell Elementary (Chicago Public Schools)
Kinzie Elementary (CPS)
Peter Cooper Dual Language Academy (CPS)
Villa Park Early Childhood Center (SASED)Â
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FHSR has partnered with Chicago Hearing Society’s Youth Connections Program to create the EARs Early Literacy training program for parents, school professionals and Early Intervention service providers. This program seeks to close the early literacy gap between DHH children and their peers by teaching the best practices on reading to a child with hearing loss and creating a language-rich environment in the home.Â
FHSR partners with local hospitals and clinics to stock loaner hearing aid banks, providing children access to the world of sound while they await insurance approval or repairs. Prior loaner hearing tech grant recipients include:Â
- Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
- Comer’s Children’s HospitalÂ
- The Children’s Hospital University of Illinois (CHUI)
- Advocate Children’s Hospital
- SCOPE Speech & Hearing Clinic at Rush UniversityÂ
- Rush University Medical Center Pediatric Audiology
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In addition, we partner with Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago’s audiology department by funding the Hart Family Cochlear Implant Education Coordinator.Â
BECOME A PARTNER
We are always seeking partners to help us expand our reach and increase our services while maintaining the highest caliber of programming. Organizations looking to fund in the areas of pediatric hearing loss support need look no further than FHSR. By creating a strategic partnership with FHSR other hospitals, private foundations, corporations, and nonprofit organizations can affect meaningful change in deaf and hard of hearing children’s lives.
BE A PART OF IT ALL.
Learn more about partnership opportunities.
FHSR remains open to new corporate, foundation, and clinical partnerships. To view our financials and previous year’s annual reports, visit the Financials page. For further information on becoming a loaner hearing tech bank site or other partnership options, please contact us.
