Casey Cares Foundation
Hammy’s Heart · About this organization
What you get
Grocery gift cards when you are enrolled. The amount isn't published. Ask.
How to start
Your social worker starts the request. Fill in the new-patient application and arrange the medical section with your child's healthcare team.
Good to know
- Ask when grocery help can begin after enrollment.
The details, as published
Casey Cares’ Hammy’s Heart provides grocery gift cards to enrolled families with a critically ill child. A child with B-ALL can qualify because Casey Cares accepts critically ill patients under 18 who meet at least two of four criteria: a life-threatening diagnosis, active treatment, frequent hospitalization, or hospice care. The family completes a new-patient application with medical documentation from the child’s healthcare team, after which Casey Cares determines eligibility; the site does not publish the gift-card amount, income test, or precise service-area boundaries.
What help you may get
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Hammy’s Heart — household bills and cash assistance
Casey Cares’ Hammy’s Heart provides grocery gift cards to enrolled families with a critically ill child. A child with B-ALL can qualify because Casey Cares accepts critically ill patients under 18 who meet at least two of four criteria: a life-threatening diagnosis, active treatment, frequent hospitalization, or hospice care. The family completes a new-patient application with medical documentation from the child’s healthcare team, after which Casey Cares determines eligibility; the site does not publish the gift-card amount, income test, or precise service-area boundaries.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Grocery expenses
- The official page does not publish the gift-card amount or cap.
- The official page does not publish how often a family may receive Hammy's Heart gift cards.
Meals And Food
Hammy’s Heart — meals and food
Casey Cares’ Hammy’s Heart provides grocery gift cards to enrolled families with a critically ill child. A child with B-ALL can qualify because Casey Cares accepts critically ill patients under 18 who meet at least two of four criteria: a life-threatening diagnosis, active treatment, frequent hospitalization, or hospice care. The family completes a new-patient application with medical documentation from the child’s healthcare team, after which Casey Cares determines eligibility; the site does not publish the gift-card amount, income test, or precise service-area boundaries.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Grocery expenses
- The official page does not publish the gift-card amount or cap.
- The official page does not publish how often a family may receive Hammy's Heart gift cards.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. B-ALL is a life-threatening pediatric cancer and can satisfy the program's critical-illness criteria when the child also meets at least one other published criterion, such as active treatment or frequent hospitalization.
Age
Age 0 to age 17.
- Programs are for critically ill children under age 18.
Treatment status
Active Treatment
- A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
- The application requires medical documentation and healthcare-team contact information.
- The family eligibility page says the child's primary physician and social worker should complete applications.
Financial need is required.
- No numeric income threshold or income-document rule is published for Hammy's Heart.
- The program is described as serving enrolled families that need assistance with grocery bills.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
Residence coverage is not published clearly; confirm with the program.
- The family must be within the organization's service area; exact state and county boundaries require confirmation.
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? Yes. Ask your child’s social worker or care team to begin the request.
Who can start: Healthcare Team, Hospital Representative, Parent Or Guardian, Social Worker
- After enrollment, ask Casey Cares whether Hammy's Heart grocery support is currently available.
- Casey Cares reviews the physician assessment and determines program eligibility.
- Obtain the required medical-professional completion or signature and submit the application to Casey Cares.
- Provide the child's identity, address, parent or guardian information, hospital, physician, social-worker or child-life contact, diagnosis, diagnosis date, and current treatment or hospitalization status.
- Review the published eligibility criteria and begin the online or printable new-patient application.
Ways to apply or ask
- Online Portal · Open form or page
- Online Portal · Open form or page
Documents to prepare
- Child and parent or guardian contact information
- Completed new-patient application
- Diagnosis and treatment-status information
- Medical documentation completed or signed by an eligible healthcare professional
- Eligible enrolled families receive grocery support as gift cards when the program is available.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Open |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 22, 2026 |
- The official family page links to a current application, and the official site presents Hammy's Heart as an active program.
- The site does not publish current gift-card inventory or funding capacity.
- The official site does not publish a fixed review timetable.
Limitations and things to confirm
- The exact geographic service area is not published on the family eligibility page.
- The family must first qualify for Casey Cares programs; Hammy's Heart is not presented as a standalone public cash-grant application.
- The gift-card amount, award frequency, income rules, and present funding capacity are not published.
- The official family page and current printable form use slightly different language about which healthcare professionals must complete or sign the medical section.
- Does the current process require both physician and social-worker completion, or only one eligible medical signature as shown on the printable medical-documentation page?
- What amount and frequency of Hammy's Heart grocery assistance are currently available?
- What exact states and counties are currently inside Casey Cares' family service area?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 22, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- New Patient Application 2026 · checked Aug 22, 2026
- For Families · checked Aug 22, 2026
- Hammy's Heart · checked Aug 22, 2026
- New Patient Application · checked Aug 22, 2026