Wyoming program
Help with treatment travel and home bills (Jason's Friends)
Jason's Friends Foundation helps Wyoming families with the costs surrounding a child's cancer treatment.
What it is
Jason's Friends Foundation helps Wyoming families with the costs surrounding a child's cancer treatment.
Travel and household bills can strain a family even when insurance covers treatment. Jason's Friends can help with both kinds of expenses. Its lack of an income restriction makes this a separate conversation from government benefit screening.
Who this can help
- The child must be under 21 with cancer, a brain tumor or a spinal cord tumor.
- The custodial parent or guardian must be a United States citizen and a Wyoming resident.
- The foundation has no published income restriction.
What you get
- Help with fuel and lodging for treatment trips.
- Help with rent or mortgage, utilities, car and phone bills.
- Help with the child's insurance deductible.
What the help includes
- Support can address expenses at home while treatment travel adds a second set of costs.
- There is no charge to seek assistance.
- Ask the foundation whether it pays you or the biller directly and whether there is a limit per family; the social worker can help describe the actual costs.
If you decide to apply
- Ask the hospital social worker to help with the foundation's application.
- Gather the diagnosis, treatment schedule and the bills you need help with.
- Describe where treatment happens and which travel or household costs are hardest to cover.
Jason's Friends Foundation: family assistance program · Official page ↗
After you ask
- An approval can provide help toward the specific travel costs and bills listed in the request.
- The foundation confirms the document list, decision timing and any urgent process. Diagnosis information, treatment dates and bills can help explain your request; the foundation decides what it needs and whether it can provide help.
Good to know
This is a charity with its own eligibility decision. An income result for another program does not decide whether it can help.
Other details
- The hospital social worker can help explain the treatment schedule and the family's needs.
- Your social worker can check whether support is available for the hospital and travel you expect, including treatment outside Wyoming. Family residency and the location of treatment are separate questions; the foundation must confirm any restrictions.
Official sources
“Could Jason's Friends help with our travel or bills at home, and how would it fit with other assistance? If it fits, could you help us explain what we need?”
Why I’m asking: I want to know whether there is help with the costs insurance leaves outside the hospital.
More background and detailed requirements
Additional program information and published rules
Who does what
The three parts, side by side. The agency decides; nobody on this page does.
You
Apply early and say plainly what the travel and the bills at home are costing.
Your social worker
The hospital social worker helps with the form and attaches the schedule.
The care team
Records and letters when the application asks for them.
- Who decides
- The foundation.
- Ask your social worker
- “We are driving out of state for treatment. Can you help me apply to Jason's Friends for fuel, lodging and the bills at home?”
How to apply
First step: Apply at jasonsfriends.org, and ask the hospital social worker to attach the treatment schedule.
- Apply in the first weeks, not after the bills pile up.
- Ask the social worker to attach the treatment schedule so the travel is understood.
- Ask what it can help with beyond travel, because household bills and the deductible are on its list.
Official application / program page ↗
Where it starts: Apply through the foundation; the hospital social worker can help and can attach the treatment schedule.
What to gather
- The diagnosis in writing
- The treatment schedule and where it happens
- The bills you need help with
How long: Not published. Ask when you apply.
What a yes looks like
Help paid towards the bills and the travel you named.
What a no looks like, and the next move
Usually the age or residency rule. Ask which, and ask what else the foundation knows of.
Watch out
- It is a charity, so nobody at the state will mention it. You have to ask.
- It has no income limit, so apply even if you think you earn too much.
- No decision timeline is published, so apply early rather than when the bills arrive.
The numbers and the rules
The arcane layer, kept on purpose. Checked September 11, 2026.
What it is worth
Help with fuel, lodging, the rent or mortgage, utilities, the car, the phone and the child's deductible. No income restriction.
- $21 — Age ceiling for the child
Covers: Fuel and lodging for the journey to treatment · Household bills: rent or mortgage, utilities, the car, the phone · The child's own insurance deductible
What it costs the family: None.
The eligibility facts, as published
- Age
- under 21
- Diagnosis
- cancer, a brain tumour or a spinal cord tumour
- Residency
- the custodial parent or guardian is a United States citizen and a Wyoming resident
- Income
- no income restriction is published
The trap: Families assume a charity must have an income test and do not ask. This one says plainly that it has none. Ask the hospital social worker to help with the application and to attach the treatment schedule.
Where I read this
- Our Program — Jason's Friends Foundation, read September 10, 2026