Written by a parent, not a doctor. Nothing here is medical advice.

A Moment of Magic

Magic Makers · About this organization

What you get

Play, stories, music, and quiet companionship with trained volunteers dressed as familiar characters.

How to start

Email A Moment of Magic about a character visit, or check the request page for a form.

The details, as published

B-ALL is in scope Call To Confirm

Trained volunteers embody familiar characters and provide child-directed play, stories, music, quiet companionship, and other creative interaction for medically vulnerable children. Requests are advertised for families, caregivers, professionals, and organizations, but the linked request page had no usable form when checked and local service depends on chapter or partner capacity.

What help you may get

Camps And Retreats

Magic Makers — camps and retreats

Trained volunteers embody familiar characters and provide child-directed play, stories, music, quiet companionship, and other creative interaction for medically vulnerable children. Requests are advertised for families, caregivers, professionals, and organizations, but the linked request page had no usable form when checked and local service depends on chapter or partner capacity.

Amount not published

Peer And Emotional Support

Magic Makers — peer and emotional support

Trained volunteers embody familiar characters and provide child-directed play, stories, music, quiet companionship, and other creative interaction for medically vulnerable children. Requests are advertised for families, caregivers, professionals, and organizations, but the linked request page had no usable form when checked and local service depends on chapter or partner capacity.

Amount not published

Wishes And Family Experiences

Magic Makers — wishes and family experiences

Trained volunteers embody familiar characters and provide child-directed play, stories, music, quiet companionship, and other creative interaction for medically vulnerable children. Requests are advertised for families, caregivers, professionals, and organizations, but the linked request page had no usable form when checked and local service depends on chapter or partner capacity.

Amount not published

Why this may help

Wishes And Family Experiences: Character visits let your child choose stories, songs or play with a favorite character.

Check the main eligibility rules

Diagnosis

B-ALL is in scope. A child with B-ALL fits the medically vulnerable and serious-illness population.

Age

Age 3 to age 18, measured at service date.

Treatment status

No specific treatment status is published.

Where you live and where your child is treated

Where your family lives

Residence coverage is not published clearly; confirm with the program.

Where your child is treated

Treatment-location rules are not published clearly; confirm with the program.

How to get started

Does a social worker or care team need to start it? No. A required care-team start is not published; the family can use the available route below.

  1. Check the request page or email info@amomentofmagic.org.
  2. Confirm that a chapter or partner can serve the child’s location and care setting.

Ways to apply or ask

  • Hospital Workflow — Current usability and eligible initiating actor are not published or could not be verified.
  • Online Portal · Open form or page — Current usability and eligible initiating actor are not published or could not be verified.
  • Online Portal — Current usability and eligible initiating actor are not published or could not be verified.
  • Web Form — Current usability and eligible initiating actor are not published or could not be verified.

Documents to prepare

The program does not publish a document checklist. Ask before gathering paperwork.

Availability and timing

ProgramActive
ApplicationsCall To Confirm
Funding or spaceNot Published
Application windowRolling
Last checkedAug 24, 2026
  • The advertised request page contained no usable form on the check date.

Limitations and things to confirm

  • A listed historical partner does not establish current visit availability.
  • Local capacity, lead time, cost, infection-control rules, documents, and response time are not published.
  • Which locations currently accept requests, and what working application, capacity, cost, lead-time, and response rules apply?

Official sources

Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.

Official program