Cancer Patient Support Foundation
Emergency Fund · About this organization
What you get
Help with bills, food, heating, medical costs, treatment travel, childcare, and other essentials. The amount isn't published. Ask.
How to start
Your medical provider or social worker submits through the online portal. Give them your bills and financial-need details; new providers first contact the foundation.
Good to know
- Active treatment, financial need, and provider submission are required.
- The award amount, disbursement method, documents, review time, and repeat-award rule are not public.
The details, as published
The Emergency Fund helps Vermont cancer patients in active treatment who demonstrate financial need with housing, food, heating, utilities, treatment transportation, medical or prescription costs, integrative health, childcare, caregiver services, and special clothing or wigs. A medical provider or social worker uses a protected portal, and the program includes named pediatric, rural-transportation, heating, and basic-needs funding streams with the same intake.
What help you may get
Childcare
Emergency Fund — childcare
The Emergency Fund helps Vermont cancer patients in active treatment who demonstrate financial need with housing, food, heating, utilities, treatment transportation, medical or prescription costs, integrative health, childcare, caregiver services, and special clothing or wigs. A medical provider or social worker uses a protected portal, and the program includes named pediatric, rural-transportation, heating, and basic-needs funding streams with the same intake.
Amount not published
Can cover
- caregiver services
- Caregiver services
- childcare during appointments
- Childcare during treatment appointments
- Food
- food and groceries
- home heating
- Home heating
- housing
- Housing
- integrative health
- Integrative health
- out-of-pocket medical and prescription costs
- Out-of-pocket medical expenses
- Prescription expenses
- special clothing or wigs
- Special clothing or wigs
- transportation to treatment
- Transportation to treatment appointments
- utilities
- Utilities
- The public page does not publish a standard amount or cap.
- The public page does not publish a repeat-award rule.
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Emergency Fund — household bills and cash assistance
The Emergency Fund helps Vermont cancer patients in active treatment who demonstrate financial need with housing, food, heating, utilities, treatment transportation, medical or prescription costs, integrative health, childcare, caregiver services, and special clothing or wigs. A medical provider or social worker uses a protected portal, and the program includes named pediatric, rural-transportation, heating, and basic-needs funding streams with the same intake.
Amount not published
Can cover
- caregiver services
- Caregiver services
- childcare during appointments
- Childcare during treatment appointments
- Food
- food and groceries
- home heating
- Home heating
- housing
- Housing
- integrative health
- Integrative health
- out-of-pocket medical and prescription costs
- Out-of-pocket medical expenses
- Prescription expenses
- special clothing or wigs
- Special clothing or wigs
- transportation to treatment
- Transportation to treatment appointments
- utilities
- Utilities
- The public page does not publish a standard amount or cap.
- The public page does not publish a repeat-award rule.
Meals And Food
Emergency Fund — meals and food
The Emergency Fund helps Vermont cancer patients in active treatment who demonstrate financial need with housing, food, heating, utilities, treatment transportation, medical or prescription costs, integrative health, childcare, caregiver services, and special clothing or wigs. A medical provider or social worker uses a protected portal, and the program includes named pediatric, rural-transportation, heating, and basic-needs funding streams with the same intake.
Amount not published
Can cover
- caregiver services
- Caregiver services
- childcare during appointments
- Childcare during treatment appointments
- Food
- food and groceries
- home heating
- Home heating
- housing
- Housing
- integrative health
- Integrative health
- out-of-pocket medical and prescription costs
- Out-of-pocket medical expenses
- Prescription expenses
- special clothing or wigs
- Special clothing or wigs
- transportation to treatment
- Transportation to treatment appointments
- utilities
- Utilities
- The public page does not publish a standard amount or cap.
- The public page does not publish a repeat-award rule.
Medical And Insurance Costs
Emergency Fund — medical and insurance costs
The Emergency Fund helps Vermont cancer patients in active treatment who demonstrate financial need with housing, food, heating, utilities, treatment transportation, medical or prescription costs, integrative health, childcare, caregiver services, and special clothing or wigs. A medical provider or social worker uses a protected portal, and the program includes named pediatric, rural-transportation, heating, and basic-needs funding streams with the same intake.
Amount not published
Can cover
- caregiver services
- Caregiver services
- childcare during appointments
- Childcare during treatment appointments
- Food
- food and groceries
- home heating
- Home heating
- housing
- Housing
- integrative health
- Integrative health
- out-of-pocket medical and prescription costs
- Out-of-pocket medical expenses
- Prescription expenses
- special clothing or wigs
- Special clothing or wigs
- transportation to treatment
- Transportation to treatment appointments
- utilities
- Utilities
- The public page does not publish a standard amount or cap.
- The public page does not publish a repeat-award rule.
Practical Items And Home Help
Emergency Fund — practical items and home help
The Emergency Fund helps Vermont cancer patients in active treatment who demonstrate financial need with housing, food, heating, utilities, treatment transportation, medical or prescription costs, integrative health, childcare, caregiver services, and special clothing or wigs. A medical provider or social worker uses a protected portal, and the program includes named pediatric, rural-transportation, heating, and basic-needs funding streams with the same intake.
Amount not published
Can cover
- caregiver services
- Caregiver services
- childcare during appointments
- Childcare during treatment appointments
- Food
- food and groceries
- home heating
- Home heating
- housing
- Housing
- integrative health
- Integrative health
- out-of-pocket medical and prescription costs
- Out-of-pocket medical expenses
- Prescription expenses
- special clothing or wigs
- Special clothing or wigs
- transportation to treatment
- Transportation to treatment appointments
- utilities
- Utilities
- The public page does not publish a standard amount or cap.
- The public page does not publish a repeat-award rule.
Travel And Transportation
Emergency Fund — travel and transportation
The Emergency Fund helps Vermont cancer patients in active treatment who demonstrate financial need with housing, food, heating, utilities, treatment transportation, medical or prescription costs, integrative health, childcare, caregiver services, and special clothing or wigs. A medical provider or social worker uses a protected portal, and the program includes named pediatric, rural-transportation, heating, and basic-needs funding streams with the same intake.
Amount not published
Can cover
- caregiver services
- Caregiver services
- childcare during appointments
- Childcare during treatment appointments
- Food
- food and groceries
- home heating
- Home heating
- housing
- Housing
- integrative health
- Integrative health
- out-of-pocket medical and prescription costs
- Out-of-pocket medical expenses
- Prescription expenses
- special clothing or wigs
- Special clothing or wigs
- transportation to treatment
- Transportation to treatment appointments
- utilities
- Utilities
- The public page does not publish a standard amount or cap.
- The public page does not publish a repeat-award rule.
Why this may help
Childcare: Childcare costs can be included in a request for urgent family expenses.
Meals And Food: Food costs are included alongside heating and other essential bills.
Medical And Insurance Costs: Medical costs are among the emergencies this fund can help pay.
Practical Items And Home Help: The fund includes essential everyday needs, but the exact items available need checking.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. Any cancer is eligible and the current Tom Sustic funding stream explicitly strengthens Vermont pediatric-cancer support.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
- The official page says “cancer patients” and publishes no numeric age limit.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
- A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
- A medical provider or social worker must submit the application.
- Limited northern New York eligibility is tied to treatment at the University of Vermont Medical Center.
Financial need is required.
- The patient must have a demonstrated financial need, but no income percentage or dollar limit is published.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
You must live in: Northern New York.
- A limited number of northern New York residents may be considered.
- The standard eligibility route requires Vermont residence.
Where your child is treated
Treatment must be connected to: A northern New York patient must receive treatment at the University of Vermont Medical Center..
- A northern New York patient must receive treatment at the University of Vermont Medical Center.
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: Healthcare Team, Social Worker
- Ask the medical provider or social worker to assess eligibility.
- Ask the medical provider or social worker to review the program criteria.
- If the provider is new to CPSF, ask the provider to contact the organization to become a referring partner.
- New providers contact CPSF to become referring partners.
- The approved professional submits through the authentication-protected portal.
- The provider or social worker submits the request through the online portal.
Ways to apply or ask
- Hospital Workflow · Open form or page · 802-488-5495 — The application link is restricted to medical social workers and medical providers. New referring providers should contact CPSF.
- Online Portal · Open form or page
Documents to prepare
The program does not publish a document checklist. Ask before gathering paperwork.
- The public page does not describe how approved assistance is disbursed.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Open |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
- Current funding capacity is not published.
- No fixed intake dates are published.
- No review time is published.
Limitations and things to confirm
- A medical provider or social worker must submit the request.
- Active treatment, financial need, and provider submission are required.
- Amount, documents, payment, timing, repeat, and capacity are not published.
- Northern New York access is limited and tied to UVM treatment.
- Northern New York eligibility is limited and tied to treatment at UVM Medical Center.
- The award amount, disbursement method, documents, review time, and repeat-award rule are not public.
- The patient must be actively receiving treatment and demonstrate financial need.
- Confirm age, hardship standard, documents, amount, repeat, payment, review, capacity, post-treatment scope, portal rules, and Northern New York boundaries.
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Emergency Fund · checked Aug 27, 2026
- Cancer Patient Support Foundation · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Emergency Fund · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Emergency Fund · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Emergency Fund · checked Aug 24, 2026