Here’s what this gift will do:
- Provide newly diagnosed children with a backpack full of essentials and $200 VISA gift card.
- Assist families with financial costs for travel, accommodations, food and bills.
- Provide hospital Child Life Specialists with resources for teaching, helping children and families cope, family meals, celebrating holidays and art supplies.
- Sponsor H.O.P.E. (Helping Oncology Patients and Parents Engage) events where pediatric cancer patients, caregivers and siblings connect with other families battling pediatric cancer.
- Provide funding for special educational programming for pediatric patients.
Support survivors with long-term follow-up care. - Offering financial assistance to families towards funeral costs and grief counseling.
- Support pediatric cancer research being done at SUNY Upstate and Golisano Children’s Hospital.
- Support the Paige Yeomans Arnold Patient Family Support Endowed Fund, set up to perpetually support patient and families services at the Golisano Children’s Hospital.
