Each year, thousands of kids are diagnosed with Pediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders.  The treatment for childhood cancer is often years of chemotherapy, surgeries, and long hospital stays. Our patients with Sickle Cell Disease (a blood disorder leading to acute and chronic pain) are admitted to the hospital for for weeks at a time in uncontrolled pain crisis.  Patients with aplastic anemia or HLH can require stem cell transplants that can lead to hospitalizations for months. As a healthcare provider, we see firsthand the heartache of childhood cancer blood disorders, so we want to do more. 

A Little Lighter is our division fund supporting our patients and families directly through staff led parent support groups, medical supplies not covered by insurance, special events in the division including “ice cream truck” days, bubble parades, and therapeutic toys to help the hard days feel a little lighter.  In the past year we have also been able to start our own Financial Assistance Program with our funding which focuses on the critical need for parking pass support, meal vouchers, and transportation gift cards!

September is Pediatric cancer and Sickle Cell Awarness Month and we are asking for your help to make the heaviness of childhood cancer and other blood disorders a little lighter. 

$10 can buy a family a thermometer to detect early signs of life-threatening infections at home while their child is immunocompromised.

$18 can pay for a parking pass so both parents can come to bedside for dinner without thinking of the cost of another parking space. 

$50 can buy games and distractive toys for kids during their long hospital stays.  

$100 can support a parent attending one of our parents support groups.

$1,000 could go towards our Financial Assitance Program in lessening the financial burden placed on fmailies during treatment. 

Thank you for helping us try and make things a little lighter!