4201 Long Beach Blvd, Suite 203, Long Beach, CA 90807
For Children
Provides financial assistance for parents coping with their child’s illness.
The American Childhood Cancer Organization is the largest grassroots childhood cancer organization in the U.S.
The National Children’s Cancer Society serves as a financial, emotional, and educational resource for families that can’t make ends meet when their child is diagnosed with cancer.
Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times® creates a positive long-lasting impact on children with cancer and their families by providing fun-filled, medically supervised, cost-free, year-round camp programs.
A great online resource for children and families that provides coloring books, games, and other interactive tools, as well as a place for children and families to share their stories and prayers.
Provides friendship, understanding, education and support for kids and teens who have a parent with cancer or have lost a parent with cancer.
Our vision is to develop and test new therapies that will be targeted specifically to neuroblastoma cells, and therefore improve the outcome for children with advanced neuroblastoma with fewer side effects.
Okizu is committed to the continuing support of the childhood cancer community through its Oncology and Siblings camping programs, Family weekends, Bereavement programs, and Teen and Young Adult programs.
The mission of the Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers advance pediatric psychosocial oncology care through clinical social work practice, research, advocacy, education, and program development.
A great site for children and teens coping with illness.
Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation is a national organization dedicated to eliminating pediatric cancer and to providing hope and support to those who are touched by it.
The Valerie Fund’s mission is to provide support for the comprehensive health care of children with cancer and blood disorders.
The mission of Camp Quality USA is to establish and sustain nationwide community-based camping experiences and ongoing support programs for children with cancer and their families.
Children’s Cancer Recovery Foundation assists children under age 18 and their families who are facing the hardships of a cancer diagnosis. The Foundation focuses on improving the mental, social and emotional well-being of these families while helping to minimize the devastation that cancer can cause. A national footprint allows the Foundation to make a difference in communities, large and small, providing a helping hand wherever needed.
Cancer Survivors’ Fund provides scholarships for young cancer survivors, give them a new purpose and meaning in life and enable them to continue their college education, as well as offers many resources and opportunities for young adults surviving cancer.
Chai Lifeline strives to find ways to bring joy to the lives of our young patients and their families through creative, innovative, and effective family-centered programs, activities, and services, engender hope and optimism in children, families, and communities, educate and involve communities in caring for ill children and their families, provide unparalleled support throughout the child’s illness, recovery, and beyond, as well as offer all services free of charge to ensure that every family has access to the programs it needs.
The Child Life Counsel supports child life professionals as they empower children and families to master challenging events related to health care.
The mission of The Childhood Leukemia Foundation (CLF) is to educate, empower and raise awareness and the necessary funds to support programs that benefit children living with cancer. Our programs improve health literacy, increase self-esteem and empower cancer victims with hope. CLF believes that by working together, we can make a difference one child at a time.
Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation, a non-profit organization, was founded in 1988 by dedicated parents, physicians and friends. Their mission is to improve the treatment, quality of life and the long term outlook for children with brain and spinal cord tumors through research, support, education, and advocacy to families and survivors.
The Children’s Cancer Association’s innovative programs create joy for seriously ill cancer patients one moment at a time.
The Children’s Cause for Cancer Advocacy (CCCA) is the leading national advocacy organization working to achieve access to less toxic and more effective pediatric cancer therapies; to expand resources for research and specialized care; and to address the unique needs and challenges of childhood cancer survivors and their families.
Founded in January of 2001 in Denver, Colorado, the Children’s Treehouse Foundation are the nation’s only organization providing hospital-based, cancer-focused, psychosocial intervention training and programming dedicated to improving the emotional health of children whose parents have cancer.
Evidence
- Cancer and stress: counselling the cancer patient
- Effect of psychosocial treatment on survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer
- Malignant melanoma
- Impact of psychotherapeutic support for patients with gastrointestinal cancer undergoing surgery
- Psychologic intervention improves survival for breast cancer patients
- The Science and Practice of Beat the Odds