Jacob Way Organization
Caring Hearts Initiative · About this organization
What you get
Help with care packages mailed to your home, food and grocery resource coordination, gas gift cards, grocery gift cards and utility-bill assistance.
How to start
Enter the your contact information, your child's name and date of birth, household size, and mailing address. Have proof of income and proof of your address ready.
Good to know
- The official FAQ says all assistance is based on the availability of program funds.
- You can submit a new financial-help application every 60 days.
The details, as published
Jacob Way Organization’s Caring Hearts Initiative provides grocery and gas gift cards, utility-bill assistance, and mailed care packages to U.S. families navigating a pediatric cancer diagnosis. The patient must be a child up to age 22 under the care of a pediatric oncology physician, and annual household income must meet unpublished program guidelines. The public intake form asks for the child’s date of birth and medical status, household information, social-worker contact information, and indicators of financial and food insecurity. A family may submit a new financial-assistance application every 60 days, subject to available funds.
What help you may get
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Caring Hearts Initiative — household bills and cash assistance
Jacob Way Organization’s Caring Hearts Initiative provides grocery and gas gift cards, utility-bill assistance, and mailed care packages to U.S. families navigating a pediatric cancer diagnosis. The patient must be a child up to age 22 under the care of a pediatric oncology physician, and annual household income must meet unpublished program guidelines. The public intake form asks for the child’s date of birth and medical status, household information, social-worker contact information, and indicators of financial and food insecurity. A family may submit a new financial-assistance application every 60 days, subject to available funds.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Care packages mailed to the family’s home
- Food and grocery resource coordination
- Gas gift cards
- Grocery gift cards
- Utility-bill assistance
- The official pages do not publish gift-card amounts or a utility-assistance ceiling.
- The official FAQ says a new financial-assistance application may be submitted every 60 days.
Meals And Food
Caring Hearts Initiative — meals and food
Jacob Way Organization’s Caring Hearts Initiative provides grocery and gas gift cards, utility-bill assistance, and mailed care packages to U.S. families navigating a pediatric cancer diagnosis. The patient must be a child up to age 22 under the care of a pediatric oncology physician, and annual household income must meet unpublished program guidelines. The public intake form asks for the child’s date of birth and medical status, household information, social-worker contact information, and indicators of financial and food insecurity. A family may submit a new financial-assistance application every 60 days, subject to available funds.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Care packages mailed to the family’s home
- Food and grocery resource coordination
- Gas gift cards
- Grocery gift cards
- Utility-bill assistance
- The official pages do not publish gift-card amounts or a utility-assistance ceiling.
- The official FAQ says a new financial-assistance application may be submitted every 60 days.
Practical Items And Home Help
Caring Hearts Initiative — practical items and home help
Jacob Way Organization’s Caring Hearts Initiative provides grocery and gas gift cards, utility-bill assistance, and mailed care packages to U.S. families navigating a pediatric cancer diagnosis. The patient must be a child up to age 22 under the care of a pediatric oncology physician, and annual household income must meet unpublished program guidelines. The public intake form asks for the child’s date of birth and medical status, household information, social-worker contact information, and indicators of financial and food insecurity. A family may submit a new financial-assistance application every 60 days, subject to available funds.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Care packages mailed to the family’s home
- Food and grocery resource coordination
- Gas gift cards
- Grocery gift cards
- Utility-bill assistance
- The official pages do not publish gift-card amounts or a utility-assistance ceiling.
- The official FAQ says a new financial-assistance application may be submitted every 60 days.
Travel And Transportation
Caring Hearts Initiative — travel and transportation
Jacob Way Organization’s Caring Hearts Initiative provides grocery and gas gift cards, utility-bill assistance, and mailed care packages to U.S. families navigating a pediatric cancer diagnosis. The patient must be a child up to age 22 under the care of a pediatric oncology physician, and annual household income must meet unpublished program guidelines. The public intake form asks for the child’s date of birth and medical status, household information, social-worker contact information, and indicators of financial and food insecurity. A family may submit a new financial-assistance application every 60 days, subject to available funds.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Care packages mailed to the family’s home
- Food and grocery resource coordination
- Gas gift cards
- Grocery gift cards
- Utility-bill assistance
- The official pages do not publish gift-card amounts or a utility-assistance ceiling.
- The official FAQ says a new financial-assistance application may be submitted every 60 days.
Why this may help
Meals And Food: Grocery cards and food-resource coordination are included alongside utility help and care packages.
Travel And Transportation: Gas gift cards can help with treatment travel as part of the Caring Hearts assistance.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. The program serves U.S. families with a child up to age 22 who has childhood cancer and is under pediatric oncology care, which expressly includes pediatric B-ALL.
Age
Age 0 to age 22, measured at application.
- The official FAQ states that applicants must be a child up to age 22.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
- The child must be under the care of a pediatric oncology physician.
- The intake form requires the social worker’s name and email address.
Financial need is required.
- Annual household income must fall within Jacob Way’s guidelines; the public pages do not publish the limits or calculation method.
- The numerical income guidelines and required income documents are not published.
- The official FAQ requires annual household income to fall within program guidelines.
- All assistance depends on program funds being available.
- The intake form asks the family to rate financial strain, food security, and housing stability.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
No residence restriction is published.
- The family must reside in the United States.
Where your child is treated
Treatment-location rules are not published clearly; confirm with the program.
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
- Answer the financial-strain, food-security, housing-stability, and family-stress questions.
- Enter the applicant’s contact information, the child’s name and date of birth, household size, and mailing address.
- Open the Caring Hearts intake request linked from the official services page.
- Provide the child’s current medical status and the social worker’s name and email address.
- Submit the form and wait for Jacob Way’s review.
Ways to apply or ask
- Online Portal · Open form or page
Documents to prepare
- Child’s date of birth and medical-status information
- Completed online intake request
- Household and financial-hardship information
- Social-worker name and email address
- Care packages are mailed to the family’s home.
- Grocery and gas support is delivered digitally as gift cards.
- The delivery method for utility assistance is not published.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Open |
| Funding or space | Fund Dependent |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
- The current official services page links a live online intake form.
- The official FAQ says all assistance is based on the availability of program funds.
- The intake form is currently active, and no seasonal or monthly window is published.
- No review lead time is published.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Assistance depends on available funds; a new application may be submitted every 60 days.
- Gift-card amounts and the utility-assistance ceiling and delivery method are not published.
- The child must be age 22 or younger, have childhood cancer, and be under pediatric oncology care.
- The family must reside in the United States and meet unpublished annual household-income guidelines.
- The intake form requires social-worker contact information.
- Does every request require direct social-worker verification after intake?
- How is utility assistance delivered?
- How long does review take and what funds are currently available?
- What amounts are available for gift cards and utility assistance?
- What annual household-income limits and income documents apply?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Contact Us and Financial Assistance FAQ — Jacob Way Organization · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Jacob Way Intake Request · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Camp Jacobs Home Court · checked Aug 24, 2026