After a childhood cancer diagnosis, expenses pile up and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. If you require financial assistance, you’re not alone — we’re here to ease the burden and strengthen families navigating childhood cancer.
Dealing with a child’s cancer diagnosis can be challenging in many ways, affecting emotional well-being and financial stability. Oftentimes, a family member may stop working to provide full-time care, while expenses like travel for medical appointments, hospital parking and medications add up quickly.
At Childhood Cancer Canada (CCC), we know how overwhelming this can be on top of regular household bills and responsibilities. Our Emergency Fund offers financial assistance to help families manage unexpected financial burdens, ensuring you can concentrate on what’s most important — caring for your child.
Goals of the Emergency Fund:
We help reduce financial stress for families facing childhood cancer. This support helps them afford basic necessities and care for their child, so they can focus on their child’s health and recovery.
About the Program:
The Emergency Fund is a program available to patients and families who have a child or adolescent in active cancer treatment in Canada and require financial assistance.
With limited resources available to childhood cancer families across the country, CCC is one of the only organizations that provides direct financial assistance where it’s needed the most — household bills, groceries, medication, transportation costs or meals during long treatment days at the hospital.
How to Apply:
Canadian families who have a child with cancer requiring financial assistance are eligible to access this program.
To be eligible to receive funding, the child/patient must be:
To apply for The Emergency Fund, please fill out the form below. You will be asked to provide information to help process your application along with a short description about how the funds will help your family.
All applications are evaluated on an individual basis by a committee established by CCC. Personal information remains protected and only pertinent information is confidentially shared with this committee.
We will contact the social worker, interlink nurse, nurse practitioner or oncologist you have identified from your care team to confirm that you or your child meets the above criteria. The committee will review your application and contact you as soon as a decision is made about your application.
For approved applicants, $300 is provided per family/patient as a one-time payment in the form of a cheque and can be received every calendar year the child remains in active treatment. Aftercare patients are entitled to one-time payment.
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