Set up the ask
CURE Childhood Cancer
Family Emergency Fund
What you get
Help with emergency household expenses connected to your child's cancer treatment. Open now, but funds are limited, so ask early.
Families cannot contact this program directly; it goes through your care team.
- Who starts it
- Your social worker
- How it’s sent
- Through your social worker
- Your time
- One conversation with your social worker
- Last checked
- Aug 27, 2026
Before you start, check you fit
- Requests outside Georgia are considered only when funds permit.
- You need to show financial need.
- Assistance is intended for an emergency financial need associated with the child's cancer treatment.
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One thing to do: ask your social workerThey send it. You give them what they need.
CURE Childhood Cancer takes requests from your social worker, not from families. Copy this message, or say it at the next visit.
Hi [social worker’s name], Could you send a request to CURE Childhood Cancer for us? They offer help with emergency household expenses connected to our child's cancer treatment, and it has to come from you. Their page is here: https://curechildhoodcancer.org/family-support/family-emergency-fund/ Tell me what you need from me and I’ll bring it to our next visit. Thank you for everything you do for us. [your name] · [phone]
Copying is the only thing this page does with your text. Nothing is saved.What to bring to the meeting
- Your child’s diagnosis, the hospital’s name, and what you need help with.
What happens next
- The social worker obtains the unpublished application instructions and submits the request to CURE’s financial team.
- Ask the social worker how receipt, additional-document requests, and the decision will be communicated.
After your social worker sends it
Follow up through the social worker; no public decision timeline is stated.