Valley Children’s Healthcare
Valley Children’s Social Services · About this organization
What you get
Help with emergency meals, transportation, lodging, counseling, care planning, and finding other resources. Exact amounts aren't published. Ask.
How to start
Call Social Services or ask your child’s care team to connect you. Explain your meal, travel, lodging, counseling or financial need.
Good to know
- Social workers give regular and on-call coverage seven days a week; individual practical benefits depend on assessment and inventory.
- Current gas-card and caregiver food-voucher delivery is not confirmed.
The details, as published
Valley Children’s social workers help patients and families with financial, practical, emotional, and care-navigation needs, including emergency meals, taxi and other transportation, accommodations, community-resource coordination, advocacy, counseling, and discharge support. Exact delivery formats, limits, and availability are assessed internally; gas cards and caregiver food vouchers are not currently confirmed.
What help you may get
Lodging Near Treatment
Valley Children’s Social Services — lodging near treatment
Valley Children’s social workers help patients and families with financial, practical, emotional, and care-navigation needs, including emergency meals, taxi and other transportation, accommodations, community-resource coordination, advocacy, counseling, and discharge support. Exact delivery formats, limits, and availability are assessed internally; gas cards and caregiver food vouchers are not currently confirmed.
Amount not published
Meals And Food
Valley Children’s Social Services — meals and food
Valley Children’s social workers help patients and families with financial, practical, emotional, and care-navigation needs, including emergency meals, taxi and other transportation, accommodations, community-resource coordination, advocacy, counseling, and discharge support. Exact delivery formats, limits, and availability are assessed internally; gas cards and caregiver food vouchers are not currently confirmed.
Amount not published
Mental Health Therapy
Valley Children’s Social Services — mental health therapy
Valley Children’s social workers help patients and families with financial, practical, emotional, and care-navigation needs, including emergency meals, taxi and other transportation, accommodations, community-resource coordination, advocacy, counseling, and discharge support. Exact delivery formats, limits, and availability are assessed internally; gas cards and caregiver food vouchers are not currently confirmed.
Amount not published
Navigation Guides And Advocacy
Valley Children’s Social Services — navigation guides and advocacy
Valley Children’s social workers help patients and families with financial, practical, emotional, and care-navigation needs, including emergency meals, taxi and other transportation, accommodations, community-resource coordination, advocacy, counseling, and discharge support. Exact delivery formats, limits, and availability are assessed internally; gas cards and caregiver food vouchers are not currently confirmed.
Amount not published
Peer And Emotional Support
Valley Children’s Social Services — peer and emotional support
Valley Children’s social workers help patients and families with financial, practical, emotional, and care-navigation needs, including emergency meals, taxi and other transportation, accommodations, community-resource coordination, advocacy, counseling, and discharge support. Exact delivery formats, limits, and availability are assessed internally; gas cards and caregiver food vouchers are not currently confirmed.
Amount not published
Travel And Transportation
Valley Children’s Social Services — travel and transportation
Valley Children’s social workers help patients and families with financial, practical, emotional, and care-navigation needs, including emergency meals, taxi and other transportation, accommodations, community-resource coordination, advocacy, counseling, and discharge support. Exact delivery formats, limits, and availability are assessed internally; gas cards and caregiver food vouchers are not currently confirmed.
Amount not published
Why this may help
Lodging Near Treatment: Social workers help you find accommodations as part of arranging care and practical assistance.
Mental Health Therapy: Counseling is available alongside social workers' help with practical and financial needs.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. Every child treated through the Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, including pediatric B-ALL patients, is assigned a social worker who addresses financial and transportation barriers.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
Residence coverage is not published clearly; confirm with the program.
Where your child is treated
Treatment must be through: The child must receive care through Valley Children’s; location-specific availability must be confirmed..
- The child must receive care through Valley Children’s; location-specific availability must be confirmed.
Where the service, camp, stay, or experience happens
- California — California — California
- Central California — Central California
- Madera — Madera
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, Caregiver, Healthcare Team
- Call Social Services at 559-353-5270 or ask the child's care team to connect the family.
- Describe the financial, meal, transportation, accommodation, counseling, advocacy, or navigation need and ask what assessment or documents apply.
Ways to apply or ask
- Phone · Open form or page · 559-353-5270 — Use the program-specific Social Services number as the first contact; later benefit-specific requirements are not published.
- Hospital Workflow — The official page confirms that Social Services operates within the hospital, but it does not publish an actor-restricted internal initiation workflow.
- In Person
- Web Form
Documents to prepare
The program does not publish a document checklist. Ask before gathering paperwork.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Not Published |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
- Social workers provide regular and on-call coverage seven days a week; individual practical benefits depend on assessment and inventory.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Current gas-card and caregiver food-voucher delivery is not confirmed.
- Needs assessment, documents, income, frequency, dollar, inventory, processing, location, outpatient, and vendor-payment rules are unpublished.
- The adjacent Ronald McDonald House is separately accountable and is not represented as a Valley Children’s-owned lodging benefit.
- Confirm current gas-card, transportation, caregiver meal, Meals of the Heart, assessment, document, limit, location, outpatient, language, and payment rules.
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Valley Children’s Social Services · checked Aug 27, 2026
- Valley Children’s Social Services · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Claude & Betty Lou Laval Angel Fund · checked Aug 24, 2026