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

Ansley’s Rainbows of Hope

Bereavement Assistance · About this organization

What you get

Help with rent or mortgage, utilities, car payment, other approved essential household expense, compassionate encouragement and prayer if welcomed.

How to start

Send in the bereavement request form directly, or ask a pastor, social worker, or friend to submit it. Have expense details ready.

Good to know

  • Assistance is limited, not promised, and depends on documented need, urgency, mission fit, and available funds.

The details, as published

B-ALL is in scope Open

Limited, fund-dependent help with essential household expenses for Georgia families who lost a child under age 18 to chronic or critical illness or a medically complex condition.

What help you may get

Household Bills And Cash Assistance

Essential household expense assistance

Limited, program-determined payment support for rent or mortgage, utilities, car payment, or another approved essential expense during bereavement.

Amount decided by the program

Can cover

  • Rent or mortgage
  • Utilities
  • Car payment
  • Other approved essential household expense
  • Award amount is not published and depends on circumstances, need, and available funds.

Bereavement And Memorial Support

Bereavement encouragement and support

Compassionate encouragement, prayer if welcomed, and practical support for eligible bereaved families.

Noncash help

Can cover

  • Compassionate encouragement
  • Prayer if welcomed

Does not cover

  • Licensed grief therapy
  • Award amount is not published and depends on circumstances, need, and available funds.

Why this may help

Bereavement And Memorial Support: Alongside help with bills, you can receive encouragement and prayer if you welcome it after your loss.

Check the main eligibility rules

Diagnosis

B-ALL is in scope. A family bereaved by pediatric B-ALL can meet the chronic/critical illness or medically complex condition requirement.

Age

Age 0 to age 17, measured at treatment period.

  • The child must have been under age 18 at death.

Treatment status

Bereavement

  • The child’s death must be related to chronic illness, critical illness, or a complex medical condition.
  • Documentation of the requested bill or expense is required.

Financial need is required.

  • An established financial or practical need is required; no income threshold is published.
  • Eligibility review considers documented need, urgency, available funds, and mission alignment.

Where you live and where your child is treated

Where your family lives

You must live in: Georgia.

  • The family must live in Georgia.

Where your child is treated

No treatment-location restriction is published.

How to get started

Get ready to apply

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, Social Worker, Community Referrer

  1. Prepare family, child-loss, requested-expense, and extenuating-circumstance information plus the bill or expense documentation.
  2. Submit the bereavement intake form directly, or ask a pastor, social worker, or friend to submit it.
  3. Review eligibility, need, urgency, available funds, and mission alignment.
  4. After eligibility is verified, complete the health-information and likeness authorization forms.

Ways to apply or ask

Documents to prepare

  • Bill or expense documentation for the requested rent/mortgage, utilities, car payment, or other approved expense.
  • Parent/legal-guardian authorization allowing Ansley’s Rainbows of Hope to receive the child’s health information.
  • Parent/legal-guardian response to the authorization to use likeness.
  • Program staff review need and available funds; payment method and timing are not published.

Availability and timing

ProgramActive
ApplicationsOpen
Funding or spaceFund Dependent
Application windowRolling
Last checkedAug 27, 2026
  • The intake form is live; assistance is limited, not guaranteed, and depends on available funds.
  • No deadline is published; assistance is limited and depends on available funds.

Limitations and things to confirm

  • Only Georgia residents are eligible.
  • The child must have died before age 18 from a chronic illness, critical illness, or medically complex condition.
  • Assistance is limited, not guaranteed, and depends on documented need, urgency, mission fit, and available funds.
  • Requested bill or expense documentation is required.
  • What award limits, payment method, repeat-assistance rules, review timing, and current available-funds status apply?

Official sources

Program details were last verified Aug 27, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.

Official program