A Small Miracle Foundation
Free Childcare for Cancer Patients · About this organization
What you get
Up to 80 hours of free nanny care at home for a healthy child while a parent or sibling is in cancer treatment.
How to start
Fill in the online form with your care schedule, family, diagnosis, treatment-plan, and care-team details. Sign it and arrange treatment notes with the foundation.
Good to know
- The care is for a healthy child; it does not pay your existing childcare bill.
- Applications are reviewed weekly after treatment notes arrive.
The details, as published
A Small Miracle provides up to 80 hours of free in-home nanny care for a healthy child when a parent or sibling is in active cancer treatment. The service operates in the Dallas–Fort Worth and Houston areas and reviews requests weekly. Families submit diagnosis, treatment-plan, and care-team information, and placement depends on staffing and funding.
What help you may get
Camps And Retreats
Free Childcare for Cancer Patients — camps and retreats
A Small Miracle provides up to 80 hours of free in-home nanny care for a healthy child when a parent or sibling is in active cancer treatment. The service operates in the Dallas–Fort Worth and Houston areas and reviews requests weekly. Families submit diagnosis, treatment-plan, and care-team information, and placement depends on staffing and funding.
Noncash help
Can cover
- Up to 80 hours of in-home nanny care for a healthy child age 18 or younger
- The benefit is in-kind childcare rather than cash.
- The official page publishes an 80-hour benefit but not a repeat-award rule.
Childcare
Free Childcare for Cancer Patients — childcare
A Small Miracle provides up to 80 hours of free in-home nanny care for a healthy child when a parent or sibling is in active cancer treatment. The service operates in the Dallas–Fort Worth and Houston areas and reviews requests weekly. Families submit diagnosis, treatment-plan, and care-team information, and placement depends on staffing and funding.
Noncash help
Can cover
- Up to 80 hours of in-home nanny care for a healthy child age 18 or younger
- The benefit is in-kind childcare rather than cash.
- The official page publishes an 80-hour benefit but not a repeat-award rule.
Practical Items And Home Help
Free Childcare for Cancer Patients — practical items and home help
A Small Miracle provides up to 80 hours of free in-home nanny care for a healthy child when a parent or sibling is in active cancer treatment. The service operates in the Dallas–Fort Worth and Houston areas and reviews requests weekly. Families submit diagnosis, treatment-plan, and care-team information, and placement depends on staffing and funding.
Noncash help
Can cover
- Up to 80 hours of in-home nanny care for a healthy child age 18 or younger
- The benefit is in-kind childcare rather than cash.
- The official page publishes an 80-hour benefit but not a repeat-award rule.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. A family of a pediatric B-ALL patient may use the program when an eligible healthy sibling needs care.
Age
Any starting age to age 18, measured at service date.
- The published age limit applies to a child receiving childcare, not necessarily to the person with cancer, so cancer-patient age eligibility is not published.
- Any child within the household up to age 18 is eligible for care.
Treatment status
Active Treatment
- The family member with cancer must be receiving active treatment.
- A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
- The application requests treatment-plan and care-team contact information.
Financial need is required.
- No numerical income ceiling was published on the reviewed official page.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
You must live in: Dallas–Fort Worth area; Houston area.
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.
Who can start: Parent Or Guardian
- Prepare contact, household-child, care-schedule, diagnosis, treatment-plan, and oncology-team details.
- Complete the 21-question Microsoft form, review the service-limit acknowledgment, type your own name, and submit.
- Supply treatment notes to ASMF through the route ASMF coordinates; the public page does not publish a direct notes-delivery address.
- Review applications weekly and communicate approval or follow-up needs after treatment notes are received.
Ways to apply or ask
- Online Portal · Open form or page
Documents to prepare
- Provider treatment notes that ASMF must receive before approval
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Open |
| Funding or space | Fund Dependent |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 27, 2026 |
- The official page linked a live, submit-capable Microsoft form on the verification date; approval remains subject to need, funding, caseload, and any waitlist.
- Approval depends on funding, caseload, and any waitlist.
- Applications are reviewed weekly; placement may take about one week when capacity permits.
Limitations and things to confirm
- A healthy child must need care; this is not general payment for existing childcare.
- Geographic reach, nanny availability, caseload, and funding can limit service.
- Confirm current intake capacity, the intended 2026 form, exact service counties, whether more than 80 hours can be approved, and whether the child with cancer may receive care.
- How does the provider send treatment notes, and does ASMF contact the provider after form submission or expect the family to arrange delivery?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 27, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Free Childcare for Cancer Patients · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Free Childcare for Cancer Patients · checked Aug 23, 2026
- A Small Miracle Foundation Childcare Application 2025 · checked Aug 27, 2026