Cancer Resources: When your Child has Cancer

Ashley Lauren Foundation

ALF assists children with cancer and their families throughout their journey. Financial assistance, emotional support, material assistance, birthday parties and outings for children in the hospital and at home. Annual Holiday Party for ALF families with gifts for children. Programs include Making Dreams Come True and many others.


Childhood Leukemia Foundation

Dedicated to making the treatment process less difficult for the child fighting leukemia and their parents by offering programs that simplify care management and allow children to mix seamlessly into their surroundings


Emmanuel Cancer Foundation

The Emmanuel Cancer Foundation serves New Jersey’s children with cancer and their families by providing emotional, material and emergency financial support. ECF kids and their families receive an in-home visit from professional caseworkers to assess their needs.


Jason’s Dreams For Kids

Jason’s Dreams for Kids is a non-profit organization dedicated to granting wishes to catastrophically and terminally ill children.  Our mission is to spread joy to these children and their families.


Make-A-Wish Foundation

Each day Make-A-Wish® New Jersey grants the wish of a child diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition in the Garden State. MAWF believes that a wish experience can be a game-changer. MAWF serves a unique and vital role in helping strengthen and empower children battling life-threatening medical conditions.


Ronald McDonald House

Ronald McDonald House program provides a “home-away-from-home” for families so they can stay close by their hospitalized child at little or no cost. Our Houses are built on the simple idea that nothing else should matter when a family is focused on healing their child – not where they can afford to stay, where they will get their next meal or where they will lay their heads at night to rest. RMH believes when a child is hospitalized the love and support of family is as powerful as the strongest medicine prescribed.