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Camp Sanguinity · About this organization

What you get

Summer camp for children affected by cancer or blood disorders, with siblings included in the camp listing.

How to start

Email Cook Children's Child Life team at katie.campbell@cookchildrens.org. Ask for Camp Sanguinity's next dates and the forms and steps to register your child or their sibling.

Good to know

  • Call Child Life to confirm the next Camp Sanguinity dates before planning travel or filling out your child's camp paperwork.

The details, as published

B-ALL is in scope Application Window Closed

Your child can attend a no-cost, medically supported Camp John Marc session through Cook Children's Camps for Kids. Camp Sanguinity is for children treated at Cook Children's for cancer or blood disorders, with siblings included. Ask Child Life to confirm the next session and how to register.

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What help you may get

Camps And Retreats

No-cost medically supported camp

Your child can enjoy a summer camp experience through their cancer or blood-disorder care at Cook Children's. Siblings can take part too, and you can ask the Child Life team how to register each child.

Noncash help · Per Event

Can cover

  • Camp participation
  • The official operator page says there is no cost to the family.
  • The official pages identify a summer session, but repeat-attendance limits are not published.

Peer And Emotional Support

Cancer and sibling peer camp

Your child and their siblings spend time with other children affected by cancer in a shared camp setting.

Noncash help · Per Event

Can cover

  • Peer camp experience
  • This is an in-kind camp experience, not a cash award.
  • Repeat-attendance limits are not published.

Why this may help

Peer And Emotional Support: The camp experience gives your child time with peers who understand serious illness.

Check the main eligibility rules

Diagnosis

B-ALL is in scope. B-ALL is a childhood cancer and is within the published cancer scope.

Age

The program does not publish an age limit.

  • The reviewed official pages do not publish an age range.

Treatment status

Active Treatment

  • The Cook Children's hematology/oncology page describes the program for children being treated at Cook Children's.

Where you live and where your child is treated

Where your family lives

Residence coverage is not published clearly; confirm with the program.

  • No residence boundary is published. The named camp location is a destination and is not a residence rule.

Where your child is treated

Treatment must be connected to: Cook Children's Medical Center.

  • The patient is described as being treated at Cook Children's for cancer or a blood disorder.
Where the service, camp, stay, or experience happens
  • Camp John Marc — Published camp destination only; it does not establish a residence rule. — Camp John Marc venue in Meridian, Texas

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. Contact the published Cook Children's Camp Sanguinity camper contact to ask about the next session and enrollment process.

Ways to apply or ask

  • Email · katie.campbell@cookchildrens.org — Cook Children's camps page and Hematology-Oncology camps page both route Camp Sanguinity questions to this Child Life contact.
  • Phone · 682-885-4007 — Cook Children's Hematology-Oncology office line; ask for Child Life about Camp Sanguinity.
  • Email · megan.white@cookchildrens.org — Camp John Marc venue page lists this Cook Children's staff member as the Camp Sanguinity camper contact.

Documents to prepare

The program does not publish a document checklist. Ask before gathering paperwork.

Availability and timing

ProgramActive
ApplicationsApplication Window Closed
Funding or spaceNot Published
Application windowSeasonal
Last checkedSep 26, 2026
  • 2026-09-26: Cook Children's camps page lists the summer session "When: June 28-July 3" (this summer's session, now past); the Camp John Marc venue page lists "Next Camp Dates: Jul 4, 2027" (July 4-8, 2027). No registration form or opening date is published; families are told "For camp information, contact our Child Life team".
  • Weeklong summer camp. Next session published by the venue: "July 4, 2027 - July 8, 2027". No registration opening date or deadline is published; contact Child Life.

Limitations and things to confirm

  • The patient treatment-location criterion is Cook Children's; no nationwide eligibility claim is supported.
  • Camp John Marc is the destination venue, not a residence rule.
  • Age, enrollment form, medical-verification requirements, and application window are not published.
  • Published session dates conflict and must be confirmed.
  • Confirm the next session dates and application window.
  • Confirm age, application, referral, and medical-verification requirements.
  • GPT Pro run58 (2026-09-25): Will Child Life confirm July 4–8, 2027 as the next session and the registration window?
  • GPT Pro run58 (2026-09-25): What camper ages, sibling rules and medical approvals apply to the next session?

Official sources

Program details were last verified Sep 26, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.

Official program