Children’s Cancer Association (JoyRx)
JoyRx Mentorship · About this organization
What you get
A carefully matched adult mentor brings games and activities for your child, shares friendship and emotional support, and gives you a break during visits.
How to start
Fill in the JoyRx Portland family form and choose JoyRx Mentorship.
The details, as published
Free one-to-one companionship and emotional support from trained adult mentors for children and teens treated in Portland children's hospitals, with support and respite for parents.
What help you may get
Peer And Emotional Support
JoyRx Mentorship — peer and emotional support
A trained adult mentor is matched with your child or teen for games, activities and time to listen together. These visits give your child friendship and emotional support and give you a break for other needs.
Noncash help · Recurring
Can cover
- Carefully matched adult mentor
- Games and activities during visits
- Emotional support and companionship
- Parent respite during visits
- Provided free of charge.
- Matches can last multiple years; a family visit cadence is not published.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. Cancer is explicit, so a pediatric B-ALL patient treated in a Portland children's hospital fits the published diagnosis scope.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
- The page says children and teens but publishes no numeric range.
Treatment status
Active Treatment
- The program is described for children in treatment.
- JoyRx programs are free.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
Residence coverage is not published clearly; confirm with the program.
- Site publishes no residence rule; eligibility is by treatment location: "Eligible to patients treated in Portland children's hospitals for cancer or a similar illness." The site names no specific hospitals.
Where your child is treated
Treatment must be in: Treatment at a Portland children's hospital is required..
- "Eligible to patients treated in Portland children's hospitals for cancer or a similar illness." The site does not name the hospitals.
Where the service, camp, stay, or experience happens
- Portland, Oregon mentorship service area — Mentors visit children associated with Portland children's hospitals; this delivery location does not create a residence restriction.
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, Social Worker, Child Life Specialist
- Fill in the JoyRx Portland family form, choose JoyRx Mentorship, and give your child's hospital name.
- JoyRx follows up to match your child with a mentor.
Ways to apply or ask
- Web Form · Open form or page — Family request form on the JoyRx Portland page; choose "JoyRx Mentorship" under services and give your child's hospital name.
- Phone · 503-244-3141 — Main office phone printed in the site footer.
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 | Call To Confirm |
| Application window | Not Published |
| Last checked | Sep 26, 2026 |
- The Portland family page (checked 2026-09-26) has a live request form listing JoyRx Mentorship; no closed, paused or waitlist text is shown. The program is available only in Portland, Oregon.
- Wait for a mentor match and capacity are not published.
- Demand is described as high, but family waitlist or capacity status is not published.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Your child must be treated at a Portland children's hospital.
- Ask JoyRx about your child's age and the current wait for a mentor before planning visits.
- Which Portland children's hospitals count, what ages are served, and how long is the wait for a mentor match? The site states none of these.
- GPT Pro run58 (2026-09-25): What is the current wait for a mentor, and is the announced Austin pilot now accepting children through a named hospital?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Sep 26, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- JoyRx Mentorship · checked Sep 26, 2026
- JoyRx Pacific Northwest family programs · checked Sep 26, 2026
- 31 Ways to Get Involved as CCA Turns 31 · checked Aug 27, 2026