Footprints of Fight
Support Services · About this organization
What you get
Gas and grocery benefits, with carpet cleaning in some areas. The amount is not published. Ask.
How to start
Fill in the online application. Have references ready.
The details, as published
Footprints of Fight uses one live intake for eight free support selections for a child age 19 or younger in active pediatric-cancer treatment: gas, groceries, landscaping, housekeeping, carpet cleaning in listed Puget Sound cities, a one-year AAA membership, monthly family dinner-and-movie help, and favorite-restaurant meal delivery, plus a Footprints T-shirt. Eligibility requires treatment in Washington or Washington residence with out-of-state treatment; maintenance treatment is currently excluded. A family or third party may initiate the form, then a doctor or social worker verifies treatment; high volume may affect the stated two-week response target.
What help you may get
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Support Services — household bills and cash assistance
Footprints of Fight uses one live intake for eight free support selections for a child age 19 or younger in active pediatric-cancer treatment: gas, groceries, landscaping, housekeeping, carpet cleaning in listed Puget Sound cities, a one-year AAA membership, monthly family dinner-and-movie help, and favorite-restaurant meal delivery, plus a Footprints T-shirt. Eligibility requires treatment in Washington or Washington residence with out-of-state treatment; maintenance treatment is currently excluded. A family or third party may initiate the form, then a doctor or social worker verifies treatment; high volume may affect the stated two-week response target.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Carpet cleaning in the cities listed by the intake
- Gas benefits
- Grocery benefits
- Housekeeping where a partner company serves the address
- Landscaping where the local partner serves the address
- Meal delivery from a restaurant selected by the family
- Monthly family date night consisting of dinner and a movie
- One-year AAA membership
- The official program page and intake publish no dollar value or overall per-family limit.
- The site says it aims to provide services for the duration of the child's treatment; the intake describes family date-night support as monthly and the AAA membership as one year.
Meals And Food
Support Services — meals and food
Footprints of Fight uses one live intake for eight free support selections for a child age 19 or younger in active pediatric-cancer treatment: gas, groceries, landscaping, housekeeping, carpet cleaning in listed Puget Sound cities, a one-year AAA membership, monthly family dinner-and-movie help, and favorite-restaurant meal delivery, plus a Footprints T-shirt. Eligibility requires treatment in Washington or Washington residence with out-of-state treatment; maintenance treatment is currently excluded. A family or third party may initiate the form, then a doctor or social worker verifies treatment; high volume may affect the stated two-week response target.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Carpet cleaning in the cities listed by the intake
- Gas benefits
- Grocery benefits
- Housekeeping where a partner company serves the address
- Landscaping where the local partner serves the address
- Meal delivery from a restaurant selected by the family
- Monthly family date night consisting of dinner and a movie
- One-year AAA membership
- The official program page and intake publish no dollar value or overall per-family limit.
- The site says it aims to provide services for the duration of the child's treatment; the intake describes family date-night support as monthly and the AAA membership as one year.
Practical Items And Home Help
Support Services — practical items and home help
Footprints of Fight uses one live intake for eight free support selections for a child age 19 or younger in active pediatric-cancer treatment: gas, groceries, landscaping, housekeeping, carpet cleaning in listed Puget Sound cities, a one-year AAA membership, monthly family dinner-and-movie help, and favorite-restaurant meal delivery, plus a Footprints T-shirt. Eligibility requires treatment in Washington or Washington residence with out-of-state treatment; maintenance treatment is currently excluded. A family or third party may initiate the form, then a doctor or social worker verifies treatment; high volume may affect the stated two-week response target.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Carpet cleaning in the cities listed by the intake
- Gas benefits
- Grocery benefits
- Housekeeping where a partner company serves the address
- Landscaping where the local partner serves the address
- Meal delivery from a restaurant selected by the family
- Monthly family date night consisting of dinner and a movie
- One-year AAA membership
- The official program page and intake publish no dollar value or overall per-family limit.
- The site says it aims to provide services for the duration of the child's treatment; the intake describes family date-night support as monthly and the AAA membership as one year.
Travel And Transportation
Support Services — travel and transportation
Footprints of Fight uses one live intake for eight free support selections for a child age 19 or younger in active pediatric-cancer treatment: gas, groceries, landscaping, housekeeping, carpet cleaning in listed Puget Sound cities, a one-year AAA membership, monthly family dinner-and-movie help, and favorite-restaurant meal delivery, plus a Footprints T-shirt. Eligibility requires treatment in Washington or Washington residence with out-of-state treatment; maintenance treatment is currently excluded. A family or third party may initiate the form, then a doctor or social worker verifies treatment; high volume may affect the stated two-week response target.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Carpet cleaning in the cities listed by the intake
- Gas benefits
- Grocery benefits
- Housekeeping where a partner company serves the address
- Landscaping where the local partner serves the address
- Meal delivery from a restaurant selected by the family
- Monthly family date night consisting of dinner and a movie
- One-year AAA membership
- The official program page and intake publish no dollar value or overall per-family limit.
- The site says it aims to provide services for the duration of the child's treatment; the intake describes family date-night support as monthly and the AAA membership as one year.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. The official program serves Washington families whose child is starting or receiving treatment for pediatric cancer; pediatric B-ALL is within that scope.
Age
Age 0 to age 19, measured at application.
- The official pages use the terms child and pediatric cancer but do not publish a numerical age limit.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
- A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
- The parent-facing intake requires the child's treatment hospital, treatment location, and social-worker contact information.
- The reviewed official pages and live intake do not publish or request a numerical household-income limit.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
You must live in: WA.
- The official site describes eligible applicants as families in Washington and parents of a child battling pediatric cancer in Washington State; it does not define whether this means permanent residence or a treatment stay.
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.
Who can start: Parent Or Guardian
- Enter the child's identity, age, date of birth, diagnosis, diagnosis date, treatment type, commute frequency, and treatment hospital.
- Have a doctor or social worker complete the Footprints verification form when provided.
- Open the Footprints of Fight intake form.
- Provide parent contact information, current and permanent addresses, sibling information, and the treating social worker's contact information.
- Select requested services, explain how they would help, choose physical or digital gift cards when applicable, and submit the form.
- Submit the live public intake with child, diagnosis, treatment, family, hospital, social-worker, requested-service, address, and preference information.
- Wait for the Family Services Team to contact the family.
- Watch email; the FAQ says families should normally hear back within two weeks, but the form warns of high volume.
Ways to apply or ask
- Online Portal · Open form or page
Documents to prepare
- Doctor or social-worker treatment verification form
- Gift-card requests may be fulfilled with physical or digital cards; other selected services are provided through program partners when available.
- The Family Services Team contacts the family after receiving the intake.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Open |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
- The official pages do not state whether every service is currently funded or available in every location.
- The official site presented the support services as active and linked a live Typeform whose current renderer data indicated that the form was not closed.
- The official site linked a live intake form that was accepting responses on the research date.
- No application or service lead time is published.
- Within two weeks according to the FAQ, subject to current high application volume.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Current funding and partner capacity are not published.
- Housekeeping, landscaping, and carpet cleaning depend on published partner territories.
- The live form requires treatment-hospital and social-worker information even though a parent applies directly.
- The public pages do not define permanent-residence, age, income, asset, insurance, citizenship, award-value, or overall benefit-limit rules.
- Does high volume affect the two-week target or create a waitlist?
- What values, cadence, caps, selection, territory, capacity, verification, shirt, and language rules apply?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Footprints of Fight · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Intake Form · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Mission — Footprints of Fight · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Consent-Based Partner Referrals · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Support Services · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Support Services · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Consent-Based Partner Referrals · checked Aug 24, 2026