How to Help Your Child With Cancer if you Live in California

Connecting to charitable organizations in California is a great way to help and get help with your terminally ill child. This should ease some of the emotional upheaval and financial challenges that you are facing with your terminally ill child.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Internet
• Telephone
• Patience
• A willingness to express your needs to total strangers
• · Determination to help your child and other children if necessary
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1. This charity provides financial help so that parents of terminally ill children do not have to work as they are caring for their child.
   Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation
   8899 Beverly Blvd, suite 111
   Los Angeles, CA 90048
   Email: [e-mail]
   Tel: [phone]
   WWW Site: http://www.andreriveroflife.org/
2. They lovingly provide emergency medical equipment, food clothing and other supplies to disabled children that are not supplied by insurance.
   
   Assisting Children With Disabilities
   P.O. Box 2050
   Redlands, CA 92373
   Phone: [phone]
   Fax: [phone]
   Email: [e-mail]
   WWW Site: http://www.assistingchildren.com
3. Contact this charity if you are facing trouble receiving high quality child care.
   
   Child Care Law Center
   221 Pine Street, 3rd Floor
   San Francisco, CA 94104
   Phone: [phone]
   Fax: [phone]
   Email: [e-mail]
   WWW Site: http://www.childcarelaw.org
4. Food, mattresses, toy drives and food paks are available here to children in need.
   
   Children's Hunger Fund
   12820 Pierce
   Pacoima, CA 91331
   Phone: [phone]
   Fax: [phone]
   Email: [e-mail]
   WWW Site: http://www.childrenshungerfund.org
5. Giving Children Hope serves children with food and basic needs and adults with job training.
   
   Giving Children Hope
   8332 Commonwealth Avenue
   Buena Park, CA 90621
   Phone: 866-392-HOPE
   Fax: [phone]
   Email: [e-mail]
   WWW Site: http://www.gchope.org
6. This organization donates medical services to children who need surgeries and other medical procedures.
   
   Mending Kids International
   24961 The Old Road, Suite 104
   Stevenson Ranch, CA 91381
   Phone: [phone]
   Fax: [phone]
   Email: [e-mail]
   WWW Site: http://www.mendingkids.org
7. Their motto is using the law to improve the lives of poor children and provides resources, support and opportunities to said children.
   
   National Center for Youth Law
   405 - 14th Street, 15th Floor
   Oakland, CA 94612-2701
   Phone: [phone]
   Fax: [phone]
   Email: [e-mail]
   WWW Site: http://www.youthlaw.org
8. Patient Advocacy Committee of the Children's Oncology Group (PAC).
   Missy Layfield
   Patient Advocacy Committee
   Children's Oncology Group
   440 E. Huntington Dr. Suite 300
   P.O. Box 60012
   Arcadia CA 91066-6012
   Email: [e-mail]
9. Provides entertainment, education and family activities to seriously ill children.
   
   Starlight Children’s Foundation
   310-207-5558
   www.starlight.org
   Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation
   5757 Wilshire Blvd., Suite M100
   Los Angeles, CA
   90036
   
   [phone]
   fax: [phone]
   [e-mail]
   www.starlight.org
10. The Dream Center
    
    2301 Bellevue Avenue
    Los Angeles, CA 90026
    Phone: [phone] x 7047
    Fax: [phone]
    Email: [e-mail]
    Website: www.dreamcenter.org