National Childrens Cancer Society Inc

The national children's cancer society, through its patient and family services department, offers programs and services to families making their way through the daunting world of childhood cancer, including:transportation assistance fund: ensures children with cancer have access to treatment. The fund alleviates the financial burden of travel and lodging for families who have a child with cancer. This includes transportation expenses such as mileage and airfare, and lodging when a child needs to stay near the hospital for treatment and nonprofit lodging is unavailable.emergency assistance fund: provides a cash stipend to families who have a child that has been inpatient or away from home for (30) consecutive days. Assistance may be used for mortgage, rent, utility payments, childcare, health insurance premiums, car expenses or treatment-related expenses such as meals away from home, prescriptions and parking. Beyond the cure: prepares childhood cancer survivors and their families for life after cancer by offering a web-based information center on late effects and a late effects assessment tool, archived web conferences, links to resources, community conferences, educational publications, and college scholarships to help survivors move forward with their lives in meaningful ways. Family support program: offers practical and emotional assistance to parents, caregivers and survivors from the program staff and trained volunteers, and provides resources and referrals as needed.

Public information and education - the national children's cancer society provides information to the general public to educate them about cancer's youngest victims, children, and to educate the public about the services offerred by the national children's cancer society to benefit children with cancer. The national children's cancer society also provides informational brochures to educate the public on how they can help children with cancer by donating blood for needed transfusions and by volunteering to donate marrow or cord blood for potentially life-saving transplants.