HUGS
Hospital Outreach · About this organization
What you get
Encouragement, information, and connections with family services during your child’s hospital stay.
How to start
Fill in HUGS family enrollment and physician diagnosis verification.
The details, as published
HUGS provides outreach to enrolled or potentially eligible families during a child’s hospitalization, offering connection, encouragement, information, and links into ongoing family programs through the hospital and service-provider network.
What help you may get
Peer And Emotional Support
Hospital Outreach — peer and emotional support
HUGS provides outreach to enrolled or potentially eligible families during a child’s hospitalization, offering connection, encouragement, information, and links into ongoing family programs through the hospital and service-provider network.
Amount not published
Practical Items And Home Help
Hospital Outreach — practical items and home help
HUGS provides outreach to enrolled or potentially eligible families during a child’s hospitalization, offering connection, encouragement, information, and links into ongoing family programs through the hospital and service-provider network.
Amount not published
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. HUGS expressly includes cancer in its life-threatening-illness eligibility for Hawaii children through age 21.
Age
Age 0 to age 21, measured at application.
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: HI.
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.
- Complete HUGS family enrollment and physician diagnosis verification.
- Contact the family-services team for the current component schedule or request process.
Ways to apply or ask
- Online Portal · Open form or page
- Web Form
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
- Current dates, capacity, benefit frequency, and component-level requirements are not fully published.
- Confirm current schedule, capacity, cost, and exact access rules.
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Family Events · checked Aug 24, 2026