Links to Other Organizations
Financial or Service Support
Clayton Dabney Foundation
Provides financial assistance for families when their child is diagnosed with cancer. The criteria and application, which must be completed by a professional, are online.
Cure for Lymphoma Foundation
Offers patient-to-patient support via telephone, email or letters. They also have a $500.00 grant for quality of life expenses not covered by insurance. The application is on line.
First Hand Foundation
http://www.firsthandfoundation.org
Assists children with health problems by providing financial assistance for medical needs.
Miracles of Mitch Foundation
http://www.miraclesofmitchfoundation.org
Providing quality of life assistance to children living with cancer and to their families.
Wigs for Kids
This is non-profit organization that provides wigs and also accepts hair donations.
Ronald McDonald House
This site shows the guidelines and locations of Ronald McDonald houses across the country.
Emotional Support
Imtooyoungforthis.org
http://www.imtooyoungforthis.org
A place or young adults affected by cancer. Got Cancer? Under 40? Sucks, huh? Get Busy Living.
Squirrel Tales
Offers suggestions to parents on everything from diet choices to how to decorate the hospital room. They also have a chat room for families.
Sibling Resources
SuperSibs!
http://www.supersibs.org/services_scholarship.html
866-444-7427 This site has criteria and application for two $5000 scholarships to be given to siblings of childhood cancer survivors.
CancerCare for Kids
http://www.cancercare.org/pdf/fact_sheets/fs_siblings.pdf
Helping the siblings of the child with cancer.
Travel Assistance
Mercy Medical
Airlift-Links to charitable air transportation organizations.
Patient Travel.org
Provides information about all forms of charitable, long distance medical air transportation and provides referrals to all appropriate sources of help available in the national charitable medical air tansportaiont network.
Grief
Growth House, Inc.
http://www.growthhouse.org/death.html
This site contains a large search engine that covers palliative care through death and grief. They also offer tips on finding a support group, funeral planning and a chat room with both drop in conversations and scheduled programs.
Hospice Net
Offers information on grief, saying goodbye, pain relief and many other topics dealing with death. On the site readers can also locate the nearest Hospice center.
M.I.S.S. (Mothers in Sympathy and Support)
This site has inspirational poetry, articles and information for professionals. It also offers families a way to communicate their story and share with others who are also suffering through grief.
The Compassionate Friends
http://www.compassionatefriends.org
This organization offers brochures, conferences, sibling chats, cyberfriends and pen pals to people suffering the loss of a child.
Although Children's Cancer Research Fund has reviewed these sites and found them to be helpful, the information on this Web site should not be substituted for proper medical advice. Other sites are not under the control of Children's Cancer Research Fund, and as a result, no representations concerning content, accuracy or usability is being made. These links are provided simply as a convenience to the user.
