Badger Childhood Cancer Network
Financial Assistance · About this organization
What you get
Help with rent, mortgage, utilities, phone, car payments and repairs, gas, groceries, hospital meals, and a new-diagnosis bag. The amount isn’t published. Ask.
How to start
Your hospital social worker arranges the referral. Tell them which bills or travel costs you need help paying.
Good to know
- A social-worker referral is required.
The details, as published
Badger Childhood Cancer Network provides emergency household, food, and travel help to families of children in treatment for cancer or a life-threatening blood disorder at American Family Children's Hospital. Published examples include rent or mortgage, utilities, vehicle costs, gas, groceries, meal cards, and a new-diagnosis bag. Hospital social workers refer families; public pages do not state an award cap, repeat-use rule, or current fund level.
What help you may get
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Financial Assistance — household bills and cash assistance
Badger Childhood Cancer Network provides emergency household, food, and travel help to families of children in treatment for cancer or a life-threatening blood disorder at American Family Children's Hospital. Published examples include rent or mortgage, utilities, vehicle costs, gas, groceries, meal cards, and a new-diagnosis bag. Hospital social workers refer families; public pages do not state an award cap, repeat-use rule, or current fund level.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Cafeteria meal cards
- Car payments and repairs
- Gas and groceries
- New-diagnosis bag
- Rent or mortgage
- Utilities and phone
- No fixed award or public benefit ceiling is published.
- The official pages do not publish a complete repeat-benefit rule.
Meals And Food
Financial Assistance — meals and food
Badger Childhood Cancer Network provides emergency household, food, and travel help to families of children in treatment for cancer or a life-threatening blood disorder at American Family Children's Hospital. Published examples include rent or mortgage, utilities, vehicle costs, gas, groceries, meal cards, and a new-diagnosis bag. Hospital social workers refer families; public pages do not state an award cap, repeat-use rule, or current fund level.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Cafeteria meal cards
- Car payments and repairs
- Gas and groceries
- New-diagnosis bag
- Rent or mortgage
- Utilities and phone
- No fixed award or public benefit ceiling is published.
- The official pages do not publish a complete repeat-benefit rule.
Practical Items And Home Help
Financial Assistance — practical items and home help
Badger Childhood Cancer Network provides emergency household, food, and travel help to families of children in treatment for cancer or a life-threatening blood disorder at American Family Children's Hospital. Published examples include rent or mortgage, utilities, vehicle costs, gas, groceries, meal cards, and a new-diagnosis bag. Hospital social workers refer families; public pages do not state an award cap, repeat-use rule, or current fund level.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Cafeteria meal cards
- Car payments and repairs
- Gas and groceries
- New-diagnosis bag
- Rent or mortgage
- Utilities and phone
- No fixed award or public benefit ceiling is published.
- The official pages do not publish a complete repeat-benefit rule.
Travel And Transportation
Financial Assistance — travel and transportation
Badger Childhood Cancer Network provides emergency household, food, and travel help to families of children in treatment for cancer or a life-threatening blood disorder at American Family Children's Hospital. Published examples include rent or mortgage, utilities, vehicle costs, gas, groceries, meal cards, and a new-diagnosis bag. Hospital social workers refer families; public pages do not state an award cap, repeat-use rule, or current fund level.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Cafeteria meal cards
- Car payments and repairs
- Gas and groceries
- New-diagnosis bag
- Rent or mortgage
- Utilities and phone
- No fixed award or public benefit ceiling is published.
- The official pages do not publish a complete repeat-benefit rule.
Why this may help
Meals And Food: Groceries and hospital meals can be covered alongside rent and other bills.
Travel And Transportation: Gas and car expenses are included to help you keep traveling during treatment.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. The program expressly serves children with cancer from infancy through age 18 who are treated at American Family Children's Hospital; pediatric B-ALL is within that scope.
Age
Age 0 to age 18, measured at treatment period.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
- A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
- Treatment at American Family Children's Hospital and a social-worker referral are required.
Financial need is required.
- No numerical household-income limit is published on the reviewed official pages.
- The official pages describe assistance for families in financial hardship but publish no numerical income test.
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 must be through: The child must be treated at American Family Children's Hospital in Madison..
- The child must be treated at American Family Children's Hospital in Madison.
Where the service, camp, stay, or experience happens
- Illinois — Illinois — Illinois
- Wisconsin — Wisconsin — Wisconsin
- Wisconsin and several northern Illinois counties — Wisconsin and several northern Illinois counties
How to get started
Does a social worker or care team need to start it? Yes. Ask your child’s social worker or care team to begin the request.
Who can start: Social Worker
- Confirm the approved benefit and delivery method with the social worker or BCCN.
- Have the social worker submit or coordinate the referral.
- Tell the hospital social worker about the household or travel need.
Ways to apply or ask
- Hospital Workflow · Open form or page · 608-231-8006 — Ask the American Family Children’s Hospital social worker to refer the family.
- Online Portal · Open form or page
Documents to prepare
The program does not publish a document checklist. Ask before gathering paperwork.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Not Published |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
- Current official pages and 2026 activity show the program operating; public pages do not state current intake or fund capacity.
Limitations and things to confirm
- A social-worker referral is required.
- Award size, frequency, and current fund capacity are not published.
- The child must be treated at American Family Children's Hospital.
- Are funds available for a new referral today?
- Can a Wisconsin child treated outside American Family Children’s Hospital ever receive assistance?
- How are approved payments or cards delivered?
- What are the current award limit and repeat-use rule?
- Which northern Illinois counties are served?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Contact Us · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Contact Us · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Our Impact · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Our Impact · checked Aug 23, 2026
- What We Do · checked Aug 24, 2026
- What We Do · checked Aug 23, 2026