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CareBOX Cancer Support Supplies · About this organization

What you get

A free customized box of nutrition products, hygiene and comfort items, and mobility or fall-prevention equipment.

How to start

For a new child, call or email CareBOX for the wishlist; send the completed list and provider verification as staff directs.

Good to know

  • You can reorder every three months; durable equipment is given once.
  • If a new-child form will not load, contact CareBOX for a working copy.

The details, as published

B-ALL is in scope Call To Confirm

A free customized box of nutrition products, hygiene and infection-prevention items, comfort supplies, and mobility/fall-prevention equipment. Families may generally request another wishlist every three months while treatment continues; durable items are usually one-time.

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What help you may get

Meals And Food

CareBOX Cancer Support Supplies — meals and food

A free customized box of nutrition products, hygiene and infection-prevention items, comfort supplies, and mobility/fall-prevention equipment. Families may generally request another wishlist every three months while treatment continues; durable items are usually one-time.

Noncash help · Recurring

Can cover

  • Cancer-care and daily-living supplies selected through the application
  • Comfort items
  • Hygiene and infection-prevention supplies
  • Mobility and fall-prevention equipment
  • Nutrition supplements
  • The benefit is a box of supplies rather than cash.
  • The FAQ permits another request after three months.

Practical Items And Home Help

CareBOX Cancer Support Supplies — practical items and home help

A free customized box of nutrition products, hygiene and infection-prevention items, comfort supplies, and mobility/fall-prevention equipment. Families may generally request another wishlist every three months while treatment continues; durable items are usually one-time.

Noncash help · Recurring

Can cover

  • Cancer-care and daily-living supplies selected through the application
  • Comfort items
  • Hygiene and infection-prevention supplies
  • Mobility and fall-prevention equipment
  • Nutrition supplements
  • The benefit is a box of supplies rather than cash.
  • The FAQ permits another request after three months.

Why this may help

Meals And Food: Nutrition supplements are available alongside the cancer-care and daily-living supplies.

Check the main eligibility rules

Diagnosis

B-ALL is in scope. The all-ages program expressly accepts pediatric cancer patients.

Age

The program does not publish an age limit.

  • The program states that it serves all ages.

Treatment status

No specific treatment status is published.

  • A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.

Financial need is required.

  • No numerical income ceiling was published on the reviewed official page.

Where you live and where your child is treated

Where your family lives

You must live in: Bastrop, Burnet, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, and Williamson counties.

  • The official wording identifies the six-county Central Texas service area but does not clearly say whether it applies to residence, treatment location, or both.

Where your child is treated

Treatment must be in: Bastrop, Burnet, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, and Williamson counties.

  • Confirm whether cancer treatment must occur in one of the six named Central Texas counties.

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: Parent Or Guardian

  1. Complete the appropriate wishlist.
  2. For a new child, call 512-296-2180 or email info@careboxprogram.org because the public form was blank during review.
  3. Review the current official rules.
  4. Submit provider verification by email, mail, or fax.
  5. Submit the requested information through the published intake route.
  6. Wait for the program or referring team to confirm the decision or next step.

Ways to apply or ask

Documents to prepare

  • Patient application
  • Provider verification of active cancer treatment

Availability and timing

ProgramActive
ApplicationsCall To Confirm
Funding or spaceNot Published
Application windowRolling
Last checkedAug 27, 2026
  • The official new-child English and Spanish Wish List Builder pages were blank on 2026-08-27; call or email before preparing the verification form.
  • Returning-child form works; new-child English and Spanish forms were blank on 2026-08-24.

Limitations and things to confirm

  • Contents depend on patient selections and available inventory.
  • Items depend on inventory.
  • New-child application and Spanish verification access were broken during review.
  • Only families in the Central Texas service area are described.
  • Only the six published Central Texas counties are served.
  • Confirm current new-patient intake, exact geography rule, inventory, and Spanish-language assistance.

Official sources

Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.

Official program