Keaton's Child Cancer Alliance
Family Navigator and Hope Chest · About this organization
What you get
Comfort items and sibling gifts, family navigation, travel, lodging, and meal assistance. The amount isn't published. Ask.
How to start
Your social worker starts the request. Ask them to contact the program with you.
Good to know
- Assistance contents and donated services vary with need and availability.
The details, as published
Keaton's intake and navigation pathway connects eligible Northern California childhood-cancer families treated at seven participating hospital systems with a Family Navigator and care kit, then routes them to appropriate financial, food, travel, emotional, bereavement, experience, and scholarship programs.
What help you may get
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Family Navigator and Hope Chest — household bills and cash assistance
Keaton's intake and navigation pathway connects eligible Northern California childhood-cancer families treated at seven participating hospital systems with a Family Navigator and care kit, then routes them to appropriate financial, food, travel, emotional, bereavement, experience, and scholarship programs.
Amount decided by the program
Can cover
- Comfort items and sibling gifts
- Family navigation
- Potential donated services such as car repair, heating or air-conditioning repair, appliances, furnishings, or property-management help
- Travel, lodging, and meal assistance
- The Hope Chest and donated-service value vary by family need and available partners.
- The reviewed official material does not publish a repeat-assistance rule.
Lodging Near Treatment
Family Navigator and Hope Chest — lodging near treatment
Keaton's intake and navigation pathway connects eligible Northern California childhood-cancer families treated at seven participating hospital systems with a Family Navigator and care kit, then routes them to appropriate financial, food, travel, emotional, bereavement, experience, and scholarship programs.
Amount decided by the program
Can cover
- Comfort items and sibling gifts
- Family navigation
- Potential donated services such as car repair, heating or air-conditioning repair, appliances, furnishings, or property-management help
- Travel, lodging, and meal assistance
- The Hope Chest and donated-service value vary by family need and available partners.
- The reviewed official material does not publish a repeat-assistance rule.
Meals And Food
Family Navigator and Hope Chest — meals and food
Keaton's intake and navigation pathway connects eligible Northern California childhood-cancer families treated at seven participating hospital systems with a Family Navigator and care kit, then routes them to appropriate financial, food, travel, emotional, bereavement, experience, and scholarship programs.
Amount decided by the program
Can cover
- Comfort items and sibling gifts
- Family navigation
- Potential donated services such as car repair, heating or air-conditioning repair, appliances, furnishings, or property-management help
- Travel, lodging, and meal assistance
- The Hope Chest and donated-service value vary by family need and available partners.
- The reviewed official material does not publish a repeat-assistance rule.
Navigation Guides And Advocacy
Family Navigator and Hope Chest — navigation guides and advocacy
Keaton's intake and navigation pathway connects eligible Northern California childhood-cancer families treated at seven participating hospital systems with a Family Navigator and care kit, then routes them to appropriate financial, food, travel, emotional, bereavement, experience, and scholarship programs.
Amount decided by the program
Can cover
- Comfort items and sibling gifts
- Family navigation
- Potential donated services such as car repair, heating or air-conditioning repair, appliances, furnishings, or property-management help
- Travel, lodging, and meal assistance
- The Hope Chest and donated-service value vary by family need and available partners.
- The reviewed official material does not publish a repeat-assistance rule.
Practical Items And Home Help
Family Navigator and Hope Chest — practical items and home help
Keaton's intake and navigation pathway connects eligible Northern California childhood-cancer families treated at seven participating hospital systems with a Family Navigator and care kit, then routes them to appropriate financial, food, travel, emotional, bereavement, experience, and scholarship programs.
Amount decided by the program
Can cover
- Comfort items and sibling gifts
- Family navigation
- Potential donated services such as car repair, heating or air-conditioning repair, appliances, furnishings, or property-management help
- Travel, lodging, and meal assistance
- The Hope Chest and donated-service value vary by family need and available partners.
- The reviewed official material does not publish a repeat-assistance rule.
Travel And Transportation
Family Navigator and Hope Chest — travel and transportation
Keaton's intake and navigation pathway connects eligible Northern California childhood-cancer families treated at seven participating hospital systems with a Family Navigator and care kit, then routes them to appropriate financial, food, travel, emotional, bereavement, experience, and scholarship programs.
Amount decided by the program
Can cover
- Comfort items and sibling gifts
- Family navigation
- Potential donated services such as car repair, heating or air-conditioning repair, appliances, furnishings, or property-management help
- Travel, lodging, and meal assistance
- The Hope Chest and donated-service value vary by family need and available partners.
- The reviewed official material does not publish a repeat-assistance rule.
- The published monetary limit is shared across the listed benefit components.
Why this may help
Lodging Near Treatment: Lodging assistance can help with stays needed for care alongside navigation and donated services.
Meals And Food: Meal assistance covers food while the navigator helps with wider practical needs.
Travel And Transportation: Travel assistance can cover getting to care alongside lodging and meals.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. The official program serves children with cancer or children with serious medical conditions that include cancer; pediatric B-ALL is within that scope.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
- The official page describes children or pediatric patients but does not publish a numerical age rule.
Treatment status
Active Treatment, Newly Diagnosed
- A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
- Hospital-caseworker referral is required.
Financial need is required.
- No numerical income rule is published on the reviewed official page.
- The official page describes referrals for families in severe financial distress.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
You must live in: Northern California; statewide code retained as a conservative outer bound..
Where your child is treated
Treatment must be through: A caseworker at one of the alliance's participating hospitals must refer the family; the reviewed page describes five hospital partners without listing all names in the captured text..
- A caseworker at one of the alliance's participating hospitals must refer the family; the reviewed page describes five hospital partners without listing all names in the captured text.
Where the service, camp, stay, or experience happens
- California — California — California
- Northern California and greater Sacramento region — Northern California and greater Sacramento region
How to get started
Does a social worker or care team need to start it? Yes. Ask your child’s social worker or care team to begin the request.
Who can start: Hospital Representative, Social Worker
- A Keaton's Family Navigator contacts the family and coordinates applicable assistance.
- Ask the child's hospital caseworker whether the hospital participates.
- The caseworker refers the family and describes the financial need.
Ways to apply or ask
- Hospital Workflow · Open form or page — A participating hospital caseworker must refer the family.
- Online Portal · Open form or page
- Phone · 916-784-6786 — Organization phone number.
Documents to prepare
The program does not publish a document checklist. Ask before gathering paperwork.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Open |
| Funding or space | Fund Dependent |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 27, 2026 |
- The official site presented the program as active on the verification date.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Assistance contents and donated services vary with need and availability.
- The current participating-hospital list is not fully published in the reviewed page text.
- What financial documentation and repeat-assistance rules apply?
- Which five hospitals currently participate?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 27, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Family Navigator — Keaton's Child Cancer Alliance · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Angel Wings Bereavement Support · checked Aug 24, 2026