Jacobs Heart Childrens Cancer Support Services

Social/emotional support to children who have cancer, their parents and siblings including: one on one counseling for all family members, sand tray therapy, bilingual in-treatment support groups, bilingual bereaved support groups, teen support groups, camp heart & hands led by packard hospital picu nurses, forever loved bereaved family retreat.

Community education: in 1999, jacobs heart led the efforts to declare september childhood cancer awareness month by executive order in the state of california, which has since grown to national significance. In continuation of these efforts, our community education and awareness programs strive to inspire compassionate action within local communities through events in celebration of childhood cancer awareness month; proclamations with state and local governments; and community memorial ceremonies to ensure that no child is ever forgotten.

Forever loved grief support: jacobs heart has reallocated funding, resources, and staff time to formalize its culturally relevant, multimodal comprehensive grief support program. Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, jacobs heart honors the unique journey of each grieving family member and designs supportive options and processes to fit the individual, with no time limit after the death of a child. Jacobs heart is actively fundraising to evaluate and address the needs of grieving children and families and our board and staff will continue to create a strong safety net of support to address them effectively, efficiently, and with compassion.