Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance
Parent Consultants · About this organization
What you get
Time with a parent who has had a child with cancer, for listening, practical guidance, advocacy, and help finding resources.
How to start
Fill in the family-registration portal.
The details, as published
Parent Consultants are parents who have had a child with cancer and offer emotional support, practical guidance, advocacy, and resource navigation. Registration initiates contact, and the current registration page says a Parent Consultant should contact the family within 72 hours.
What help you may get
Navigation Guides And Advocacy
Parent Consultants — navigation guides and advocacy
Parent Consultants are parents who have had a child with cancer and offer emotional support, practical guidance, advocacy, and resource navigation. Registration initiates contact, and the current registration page says a Parent Consultant should contact the family within 72 hours.
Amount not published
Peer And Emotional Support
Parent Consultants — peer and emotional support
Parent Consultants are parents who have had a child with cancer and offer emotional support, practical guidance, advocacy, and resource navigation. Registration initiates contact, and the current registration page says a Parent Consultant should contact the family within 72 hours.
Amount not published
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. B-ALL is a childhood cancer diagnosis within the Candlelighters treatment-network scope.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
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: Children's Memorial Hermann; MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital; Texas Children's Cancer Center, including satellite campuses.
- Children's Memorial Hermann
- MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital
- Texas Children's Cancer Center, including satellite campuses
Where the service, camp, stay, or experience happens
- Texas — Texas — Texas
- Houston metropolitan area — Houston metropolitan area
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
- Complete the family-registration portal.
- A Parent Consultant contacts the family within 72 hours.
- Discuss Parent Consultant support with the Parent Consultant.
Ways to apply or ask
- Online Portal · Open form or page — Official family-registration portal.
Documents to prepare
The program does not publish a document checklist. Ask before gathering paperwork.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Open |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Not Published |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
- Exact staff count and some campus-day details conflict across official pages; contact to confirm.
- Within 72 hours after a new family submits registration.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Exact Parent Consultant count is not safely publishable because current official pages conflict.
- Some hospital presence days are not published or conflict with older pages.
- Confirm current consultant coverage and campus days.
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Family Services practical-support bundle · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Family Services practical-support bundle · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Parent Consultants · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Parent Consultants · checked Aug 24, 2026