Written by a parent, not a doctor. Nothing here is medical advice.
Support organization
The Al Copeland Foundation funds practical expenses for families of children receiving cancer treatment at Manning Family Children's or Ochsner Children's. The Patient Assistance Fund may help with household and utility bills, transportation, groceries, lodging, supplemental medicines, and other everyday treatment-related needs. Families should ask the treating hospital social worker about the current request process because the foundation does not publish a family application, award cap, document list, or live funding status. The foundation also provides a public cancer-information page that links patients to the Gulf South Clinical Trials Network and established education and community-resource sites. Its virtual research-nurse and research-funding work supports clinicians and trial infrastructure rather than being a separately accessible family benefit.
Improves access to cancer research, clinical trials, education, and pediatric-family financial help in the Gulf South.
Louisiana nonprofit funding pediatric-oncology household needs and linking cancer patients to education and clinical-trial navigation.
Help with groceries, housing bills, lodging, other everyday needs during treatment, supplemental medications, transportation and utility bills.
Helps with: Household Bills And Cash Assistance, Lodging Near Treatment, Meals And Food, Medical And Insurance Costs, Travel And Transportation
Where: Local rules apply
Care team must start: No
Resource Directory
The foundation's public clinical-trials page links patients and families to the Gulf South Clinical Trials Network patient navigator and to established cancer-information and community-resource sites. These links are discovery aids; each external program's current pediatric eligibility, access rules, and availability must be verified with its operator.
Topics: cancer education, clinical trials, community resources, patient navigation
Organization details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Program availability can change.
