Brave Like McKenna
Request for Assistance · About this organization
What you get
Up to $1,000 for rent, mortgage, home utilities, or vehicle payments.
How to start
Fill in the electronic request form linked from the program page.
Good to know
- Capped at $1,000 per request.
- The request form needs a Google account.
The details, as published
Brave Like McKenna offers up to $1,000 toward qualified rent or mortgage, home-utility, or vehicle-payment expenses for U.S. residents ages 0–20 with pediatric cancer. The official page promises an email response within seven days after submission, but the linked Google form now requires a Google sign-in, so unauthenticated researchers could not verify its fields or whether intake is currently accepting submissions.
What help you may get
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Request for Assistance — household bills and cash assistance
Brave Like McKenna offers up to $1,000 toward qualified rent or mortgage, home-utility, or vehicle-payment expenses for U.S. residents ages 0–20 with pediatric cancer. The official page promises an email response within seven days after submission, but the linked Google form now requires a Google sign-in, so unauthenticated researchers could not verify its fields or whether intake is currently accepting submissions.
Up to $1,000
Can cover
- home utilities
- Home utilities
- mortgage
- Mortgage
- rent
- Rent
- vehicle payments
- Vehicle payments
- The official page states that assistance is available up to $1,000.
- The reviewed official page does not publish a repeat-assistance rule.
Travel And Transportation
Request for Assistance — travel and transportation
Brave Like McKenna offers up to $1,000 toward qualified rent or mortgage, home-utility, or vehicle-payment expenses for U.S. residents ages 0–20 with pediatric cancer. The official page promises an email response within seven days after submission, but the linked Google form now requires a Google sign-in, so unauthenticated researchers could not verify its fields or whether intake is currently accepting submissions.
Up to $1,000
Can cover
- home utilities
- Home utilities
- mortgage
- Mortgage
- rent
- Rent
- vehicle payments
- Vehicle payments
- The official page states that assistance is available up to $1,000.
- The reviewed official page does not publish a repeat-assistance rule.
- The published monetary limit is shared across the listed benefit components.
Why this may help
Travel And Transportation: Vehicle payments are included, so this can help you keep your car while managing bills.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. B-ALL is pediatric cancer and ages 0–18 fall within the published 0–20 range.
Age
Age 0 to age 20, measured at application.
- The official program page states that patients must be between ages 0 and 20.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
- Provider confirmation is not published as mandatory.
- The reviewed official page publishes no income threshold or income-test method.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
No residence restriction is published.
- The patient must reside in the United States.
Where your child is treated
No treatment-location restriction is published.
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: Caregiver, Parent Or Guardian, Patient
- Confirm the form is accepting responses and complete its unpublished requirements.
- Open and complete the electronic request form linked from the official program page.
- Open the linked Google form and sign in with a Google account.
- Submit the form electronically.
- Watch for an email response from Brave Like McKenna within seven days.
- Watch for an email response within seven days after a successful submission.
Ways to apply or ask
- Email · hello@bravelikemckenna.org — The official program page lists this address for questions.
- 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 |
- The active program page links the form, but unauthenticated access redirects to Google sign-in.
- The request form is continuously linked, and no seasonal window is published.
- The organization says applicants will receive an email response within seven days.
- The organization says it responds by email within seven days after electronic submission.
- Within seven days after electronic submission.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Assistance is capped at $1,000 per request.
- Google account authentication is required to inspect or use the form.
- The reviewed official page does not publish treatment-status, income, documentation, delivery-method, or repeat-award rules.
- Treatment status, applicant role, provider verification, documents, financial test, award time basis, repeat rules, delivery, and territory inclusion are not published.
- Is the form accepting submissions, and what fields, documents, applicant, treatment, financial, bill, delivery, repeat, and territory rules apply?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Our Mission — Brave Like McKenna · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Request for Assistance — Brave Like McKenna · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Request for Assistance · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Request for Assistance · checked Aug 24, 2026