Our mission is to create welcoming communities of free support for everyone living with cancer (men, women, teens and children along with their families and friends). Our innovative program is an essential complement to medical care, providing networking and support groups, workshops, education and social activities.

HopeClub provides social and emotional support to persons touched by cancer. Services include support and networking groups, social activities, wellness programs like yoga, Qigong and Reiki, and educational programs. Kids Club provides support to children and teens touched by cancer. Membership to HopeClub is free. HopeClub on the Go takes the program to locations in Albany’s south end, Troy and Rotterdam.

The Catie Hoch Foundation is dedicated to helping kids take a break from cancer. Children are treated to a day off from the hospital and encouraged to do something fun. The Foundation pays for housing during treatment and purchases medical equipment for doctors researching pediatric cancer.

The Children's Hospital at Albany Medical Center brings together the full array of pediatric, medical and surgical specialties essential to caring for critically ill children. The Children's Hospital is the only hospital of northeastern New York and western New England that is just for kids. It serves 35,000 children each year.

A member of St. Peter's Health Care Services, serving the Capital Region: Albany, Amsterdam, Columbia/Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga & Schenectady. Our mission is to serve seriously ill people and their families during the process of dying and grieving and to enhance quality of life with comprehensive, compassionate services that respect the dignity of those we serve.

Double "H" Hole in the Woods Ranch provides specialized programs and year round support for children and their families dealing with life threatening illnesses. Our purpose is to enrich their lives and provide camp experiences that are memorable, exciting, fun, empowering, physically safe and medically sound. All programs are free of charge and capture the magic of the Adirondacks.

The Epilepsy Foundation of Northeast New York will ensure that people with seizures are able to participate in all life experiences; and will prevent, control and cure epilepsy through services, education, advocacy and research.

This is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that is committed to supporting the immediate and long-term spiritual and physical needs of families throughout Saratoga County who are grieving the death of a child or sibling from birth to 18 years old. Parents can receive financial assistance for funeral and burial expenses. The whole-family is offered “time-outs from grief,” and resources are available to help preserve the memories of the child. In addition, grieving families are offered comfort, support, and encouragement. Comfort For Those Who Mourn a Precious Child is the foundation’s non-denominational Christian bereavement support group offered to families free of charge. 

Haven Grief Counseling Center devotes itself exclusively to ministering to the needs of the bereaved and those experiencing other life losses.

A non-profit 501(c)3 foundation dedicated to supporting individuals with multiple medical challenges and disabilities.

Jake’s Help From Heaven’s mission is to assist individuals affected by debilitating illnesses including neurological impairments, mitochondrial and genetic disorders, and pediatric orthopedic problems. Our primary objective is to:

• Providing grants and other financial assistance to medically fragile special-needs individuals and their families to offset costs of necessary or convenient equipment, transportation to and from treatment centers, temporary lodging near the place of treatment, patient and family member counseling and such other similar costs

Jake’s Help From Heaven was founded in 2011 by Brian and Heather Straughter following the death of their 4 year old son, Jake Straughter. Jake’s Help From Heaven awards grants to individuals living within 100 miles of Saratoga Springs, NY. Awards have come in the form of purchasing medically necessary and/or medically convenient adaptive equipment, travel reimbursement for medical visits, extended hospital stays, research visits as well as conference visits, and support for increased quality of life for the applicant and their families. 

Let Hope Live (aka The Andrew Christian Bryce Foundation) was established to help encourage and help "let hope live" in the lives of children to age 21 with serious illnesses.

Living Resources began in 1974 in Schenectady, NY with a single group home for people with developmental disabilities. Today, the agency has grown to provide a wide range of innovative programs and services for people with developmental disabilities and traumatic brain injuries and their families throughout the Capital/Saratoga Region and in Westchester County.

This organization grants wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions, to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy.

Our mission is to prevent kidney and urinary disease, enhance the health and well-being of individuals and increase the availability of organs for transplantation.

The mission of ‘Nick’s Fight to be Healed Foundation, Inc.’ is to support pediatric blood cancer patients as well as serve the young adult blood cancer community. We strive to improve quality of life by promoting well-being, reducing stress within the entire family, and providing resources to help children with blood cancer lead fun and fulfilling lives.

Services provided include financial support (request through The Melodies Center’s social worker,) comfort bags for ages 10-25 (requested through The Melodies Center’s child life specialist; electronic refresh for DVDs and video games in clinic; partially fund clinic’s child life specialist position.

Striving to enrich the lives of those living with home intravenous nutrition and tube feeding through education, advocacy, and networking.

Founded in 1983 by Lyn Howard, MD and her patient, Clarence “Oley” Oldenburg, the Oley Foundation is a national, independent, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that strives to enrich the lives of patients dependent on home intravenous nutrition (parenteral) and tube feeding (enteral) through education, advocacy, and networking. The Foundation also serves as a resource for consumer’s families, clinicians and industry representatives, and other interested parties. Programs are directed by the staff and guidance is provided by a board of dedicated professionals and patients.

Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Capital Region provides comfort, support and respite for families of seriously ill children in a compassionate and home-like environment. We do this through the operation of the Ronald McDonald House and the Ronald McDonald House Family Room at Albany Medical Center. We enhance the lives of children throughout our community by awarding grants to programs that directly benefit children.

Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Capital Region, Inc. promotes the health, development and well-being of children and their families. Our three core programs are as follows: the Ronald McDonald House of Albany – A home away from home for families of seriously-ill children being treated at nearby hospitals, the Ronald McDonald Family Room in the Children’s Hospital at Albany Medical Center – A haven located just steps from the neonatal and pediatric intensive care units, the Family Room provides a place to escape the stress and tension of the hospital. and the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile – Operated in partnership with St. Peters Health Care Services, is a 45 ft long mobile dental office complete with two dental suites which provides free comprehensive dental care to underserved, underinsured or uninsured children in the Capital Region.

St. Catherine’s Center for Children was founded by the Daughters of Charity in Albany in 1886 as a home for sick orphans. Today, the agency is a publicly-funded not-for profit human services agency, offering a comprehensive range of programs for children and families coping with issues of abuse, neglect, mental illness, homelessness, and trauma. St. Catherine’s offers residential services for children ages 5 to 13; extensive homeless services for both families and single adults; a therapeutic foster care program serving children and adolescents; an elementary school for students with special educational needs, and community-based prevention services and programs designed to strengthen vulnerable families. Last year, St. Catherine’s services reached nearly 2,000 children and families in the Capital Region and beyond. For more information, visit www.st-cath.org.

St. Jude Research Hospital is the world's premier center for research and treatment of leukemia and other catastrophic childhood diseases. Our world renowned physicians and scientists have revolutionized leukemia treatments in children since 1962.

Starlight brings together experts from pediatric health care, technology and entertainment to create programs that help brighten the lives of seriously ill children and their families. Unlike any other charity, Starlight offers a comprehensive menu of outpatient, hospital-based and Web offerings that enable us to provide ongoing support for children and families — from diagnosis through the entire course of medical treatment. Whether it’s helping to pass long hours in a hospital, learning more about a disease or just having the chance to make special memories together as a family, Starlight’s programs help children and families cope with the challenges they face daily.

Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital is a 104 bed regional hospital serving as many as 10,000 inpatients and outpatients annually. Sunnyview is the most comprehensive rehabilitation hospital in the region, serving children and adults, and is one of only four such hospitals in all of New York State.

The Community Hospice's Wave Riders program is a free weekly support group for grieving families with children or teens, aged 3-17 years old.  

 

Working in small groups facilitated by the professional bereavement staff of Community Hospice, children can recognize and express their feelings in a safe and caring environment, receive guidance and support as they adapt to changes in their lives and families, and build self-esteem by validating the normal feelings of grief.