Set up the ask
JUST TRYAN IT
Emergency Assistance (EA) Grant Fund
What you get
Emergency help with rent, utilities, food, treatment travel, sibling childcare, funerals, and vehicle expenses. The award limit isn't published. Ask. Ask whether requests are open.
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
- Your social worker or resource manager checks your hardship and sends the request.
- Payments depend on available funds.
- Only partner-hospital staff may submit requests.
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One thing to do: ask your social workerThey send it. You give them what they need.
JUST TRYAN IT 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 JUST TRYAN IT for us? They offer emergency help with rent, utilities, food, treatment travel, sibling childcare, funerals, and vehicle expenses, and it has to come from you. Their page is here: https://justtryanit.org/who-we-support/ 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 hospital social worker or resource manager confirms financial hardship related to the child's treatment.
- The hospital social worker or resource navigator submits the internal Emergency Assistance application.
- Follow up through the submitting hospital professional because no family-direct status route is published.
After your social worker sends it
The family should request status through the submitting hospital professional.