Emilio Nares Foundation
Creating for Hope · About this organization
What you get
Knitting or crocheting together, one-to-one or in a group, with take-home craft kits.
How to start
Ask the Programs and Services staff or your hospital when you can join a session.
The details, as published
Creating for Hope offers one-on-one and group knitting or crocheting sessions for children, parents, and families at hospitals, along with take-home craft kits. The therapeutic activities address fear, grief, isolation, trauma, and peer connection, but participating hospitals, exact schedules, registration, facilitator availability, and capacity are not published.
What help you may get
Camps And Retreats
Creating for Hope — camps and retreats
Creating for Hope offers one-on-one and group knitting or crocheting sessions for children, parents, and families at hospitals, along with take-home craft kits. The therapeutic activities address fear, grief, isolation, trauma, and peer connection, but participating hospitals, exact schedules, registration, facilitator availability, and capacity are not published.
Amount not published
Peer And Emotional Support
Creating for Hope — peer and emotional support
Creating for Hope offers one-on-one and group knitting or crocheting sessions for children, parents, and families at hospitals, along with take-home craft kits. The therapeutic activities address fear, grief, isolation, trauma, and peer connection, but participating hospitals, exact schedules, registration, facilitator availability, and capacity are not published.
Amount not published
Wishes And Family Experiences
Creating for Hope — wishes and family experiences
Creating for Hope offers one-on-one and group knitting or crocheting sessions for children, parents, and families at hospitals, along with take-home craft kits. The therapeutic activities address fear, grief, isolation, trauma, and peer connection, but participating hospitals, exact schedules, registration, facilitator availability, and capacity are not published.
Amount not published
Why this may help
Wishes And Family Experiences: Knitting and crocheting sessions let you share a creative activity with your child, with kits to take home.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. The official program scope includes U.S. children with cancer, which includes pediatric B-ALL when the stated eligibility rules are met.
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
You must live in: Imperial County; Orange County; Riverside County; San Bernardino County; San Diego County; South Los Angeles service area.
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? No. A required care-team start is not published; the family can use the available route below.
- Ask the Programs and Services team or participating hospital about current sessions.
Ways to apply or ask
- In Person
Documents to prepare
The program does not publish a document checklist. Ask before gathering paperwork.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Call To Confirm |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Not Published |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
Limitations and things to confirm
- This is a therapeutic activity program, not published clinical counseling.
- Which hospitals, schedules, registration, facilitator, and capacity rules apply?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Creating for Hope · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Creating for Hope · checked Aug 24, 2026