Kids Get Cancer Too
Family Financial and Practical Assistance · About this organization
What you get
Help with home setup and changes, mobility and comfort items, feeding-pump bags, car seats, glasses, braces, shoes, wigs, gas and food cards, and insurance claims.
How to start
Use the Register With Us page and describe your child's actual needs, including needs not listed on the page.
Good to know
- Rent, mortgage, car payments, and utilities are excluded.
- You must permit contact with your child’s social worker.
The details, as published
Kids Get Cancer Too currently accepts registrations for children and young adults ages 0–24 who live in or receive treatment in Ohio and are in active pediatric-cancer treatment. One public form covers home setup or Columbus-area modifications, car seats, strollers or wagons, wigs, shoes, glasses, braces, feeding-pump bags, gas and food cards, and insurance-claim advocacy, based on need and available funds. The organization works through vendors and never pays cash; rent, mortgage, car payments, and utility bills are excluded.
What help you may get
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Family Financial and Practical Assistance — household bills and cash assistance
Kids Get Cancer Too currently accepts registrations for children and young adults ages 0–24 who live in or receive treatment in Ohio and are in active pediatric-cancer treatment. One public form covers home setup or Columbus-area modifications, car seats, strollers or wagons, wigs, shoes, glasses, braces, feeding-pump bags, gas and food cards, and insurance-claim advocacy, based on need and available funds. The organization works through vendors and never pays cash; rent, mortgage, car payments, and utility bills are excluded.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Back bags for feeding pumps
- Car seats
- Food cards
- Gas cards
- Glasses
- Home modifications in the Columbus, Ohio area only
- Home set-up needs
- Insurance-claim patient advocacy
- Leg braces
- Other child-specific needs considered by the organization
- Shoes
- Strollers or wagons
- Wigs
Does not cover
- Car payments
- Mortgage payments
- Rent
- Utility bills
- The official eligibility page publishes no dollar value or award ceiling.
- No request or award frequency is published.
Meals And Food
Family Financial and Practical Assistance — meals and food
Kids Get Cancer Too currently accepts registrations for children and young adults ages 0–24 who live in or receive treatment in Ohio and are in active pediatric-cancer treatment. One public form covers home setup or Columbus-area modifications, car seats, strollers or wagons, wigs, shoes, glasses, braces, feeding-pump bags, gas and food cards, and insurance-claim advocacy, based on need and available funds. The organization works through vendors and never pays cash; rent, mortgage, car payments, and utility bills are excluded.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Back bags for feeding pumps
- Car seats
- Food cards
- Gas cards
- Glasses
- Home modifications in the Columbus, Ohio area only
- Home set-up needs
- Insurance-claim patient advocacy
- Leg braces
- Other child-specific needs considered by the organization
- Shoes
- Strollers or wagons
- Wigs
Does not cover
- Car payments
- Mortgage payments
- Rent
- Utility bills
- The official eligibility page publishes no dollar value or award ceiling.
- No request or award frequency is published.
Navigation Guides And Advocacy
Family Financial and Practical Assistance — navigation guides and advocacy
Kids Get Cancer Too currently accepts registrations for children and young adults ages 0–24 who live in or receive treatment in Ohio and are in active pediatric-cancer treatment. One public form covers home setup or Columbus-area modifications, car seats, strollers or wagons, wigs, shoes, glasses, braces, feeding-pump bags, gas and food cards, and insurance-claim advocacy, based on need and available funds. The organization works through vendors and never pays cash; rent, mortgage, car payments, and utility bills are excluded.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Back bags for feeding pumps
- Car seats
- Food cards
- Gas cards
- Glasses
- Home modifications in the Columbus, Ohio area only
- Home set-up needs
- Insurance-claim patient advocacy
- Leg braces
- Other child-specific needs considered by the organization
- Shoes
- Strollers or wagons
- Wigs
Does not cover
- Car payments
- Mortgage payments
- Rent
- Utility bills
- The official eligibility page publishes no dollar value or award ceiling.
- No request or award frequency is published.
Practical Items And Home Help
Family Financial and Practical Assistance — practical items and home help
Kids Get Cancer Too currently accepts registrations for children and young adults ages 0–24 who live in or receive treatment in Ohio and are in active pediatric-cancer treatment. One public form covers home setup or Columbus-area modifications, car seats, strollers or wagons, wigs, shoes, glasses, braces, feeding-pump bags, gas and food cards, and insurance-claim advocacy, based on need and available funds. The organization works through vendors and never pays cash; rent, mortgage, car payments, and utility bills are excluded.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Back bags for feeding pumps
- Car seats
- Food cards
- Gas cards
- Glasses
- Home modifications in the Columbus, Ohio area only
- Home set-up needs
- Insurance-claim patient advocacy
- Leg braces
- Other child-specific needs considered by the organization
- Shoes
- Strollers or wagons
- Wigs
Does not cover
- Car payments
- Mortgage payments
- Rent
- Utility bills
- The official eligibility page publishes no dollar value or award ceiling.
- No request or award frequency is published.
Travel And Transportation
Family Financial and Practical Assistance — travel and transportation
Kids Get Cancer Too currently accepts registrations for children and young adults ages 0–24 who live in or receive treatment in Ohio and are in active pediatric-cancer treatment. One public form covers home setup or Columbus-area modifications, car seats, strollers or wagons, wigs, shoes, glasses, braces, feeding-pump bags, gas and food cards, and insurance-claim advocacy, based on need and available funds. The organization works through vendors and never pays cash; rent, mortgage, car payments, and utility bills are excluded.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Back bags for feeding pumps
- Car seats
- Food cards
- Gas cards
- Glasses
- Home modifications in the Columbus, Ohio area only
- Home set-up needs
- Insurance-claim patient advocacy
- Leg braces
- Other child-specific needs considered by the organization
- Shoes
- Strollers or wagons
- Wigs
Does not cover
- Car payments
- Mortgage payments
- Rent
- Utility bills
- The official eligibility page publishes no dollar value or award ceiling.
- No request or award frequency is published.
Why this may help
Meals And Food: Food cards are included alongside equipment and home help.
Travel And Transportation: Gas cards can cover driving costs alongside the practical items offered.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. The official eligibility page accepts pediatric cancer generally, explicitly overlaps ages 0–18, and therefore includes pediatric B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Age
Age 0 to age 18, measured at application.
- The official page says the patient must be between ages 0 and 24; it does not separately state whether the endpoints are inclusive, but its later rules use the groups 0–18 and 19–24.
- 2026-09-07 F01: Ages 19–24 require active treatment at a pediatric cancer hospital or facility; 0–18 is the ordinary band.
Treatment status
Active Treatment
- A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
- Patients age 19–24 must receive active treatment at a pediatric cancer hospital or facility.
- The family or young adult must allow Kids Get Cancer Too to contact the social worker assigned to the patient's case.
Financial need is required.
- The organization says funding is based on need and available funds but publishes no income ceiling or calculation.
- Assistance depends on the patient's needs and the program's available funds.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
You must live in: Columbus, Ohio area.
- The patient must live in Ohio unless the patient receives treatment in Ohio.
Where your child is treated
Treatment must be connected to: A patient age 19–24 must be in active cancer treatment at a pediatric cancer hospital or facility.; A patient who does not live in Ohio may qualify by receiving treatment in Ohio..
- A patient age 19–24 must be in active cancer treatment at a pediatric cancer hospital or facility.
- A patient who does not live in Ohio may qualify by receiving treatment in Ohio.
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, Patient
- Authorize Kids Get Cancer Too to contact the social worker assigned to the patient's case.
- Confirm that the patient lives in or receives treatment in Ohio, is age 0–24, and is currently receiving treatment for pediatric cancer.
- The organization evaluates the request based on need and available funding and, if approved, works with vendors rather than paying cash to the family.
- Use the Register With Us page and describe the child's actual needs, including needs not listed on the page.
Ways to apply or ask
- Online Portal · Open form or page
Documents to prepare
The program does not publish a document checklist. Ask before gathering paperwork.
- The organization works through vendors and does not issue cash to the family.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Not Published |
| Funding or space | Fund Dependent |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
- The official registration page is live and invites eligible families to register.
- The organization explicitly states that assistance is based on need and available funds.
- The active registration page does not publish a deadline or seasonal window.
- No lead-time requirement is published.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Dollar amounts, award frequency, review time, and required documents are not published.
- Home modifications are limited to the Columbus, Ohio area.
- Patients age 19–24 must be treated at a pediatric cancer hospital or facility.
- Rent, mortgage payments, car payments, and utility bills are excluded.
- The family must permit contact with the patient's social worker.
- The patient must live in or receive treatment in Ohio and must currently be receiving treatment for pediatric cancer.
- What caps, frequency, documents, processing, priorities, appeal, vendor, privacy, and Columbus-radius rules apply?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Events — Kids Get Cancer Too · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Kids Get Cancer Too · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Application For Funding — Kids Get Cancer Too · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Family Financial and Practical Assistance · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Family Financial and Practical Assistance · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Family Financial and Practical Assistance · checked Aug 24, 2026