Monthly Spotlights
Pediatric Patient Resources
Dana-Farber and Children's Hospital Boston have worked together for over 60 years to provide the best cancer treatment available for pediatric patients. However, excellent care is more than just a medical process because it also includes attending to non-clinical needs common to most cancer patients. We offer a spectrum of services and resources to meet those needs for young patients. In addition to psychosocial support, we also have programs that provide financial assistance, creative arts, back-to-school guidance, tickets to local entertainment, and more. These programs and services aim to lighten the unique burden cancer places upon our younger patients and their families.
Suggested resources for patients beginning treatment
Pediatric Resource Program
From helping families navigate local or federal assistance options to providing help paying the groceries, this program helps families ease the financial worries that can come with cancer care.
Financial counseling
This office guides parents or caregivers through financial and insurance questions and concerns throughout a child's cancer treatment.
What Should I Do First? Insurance and Financial Information
Patient-Family Resource Directory
For parents who need help with financial and legal issues, finding advocacy groups and support networks, or locating young adult resources, this online tool provides an array of options based on search terms.
Suggested resources for patients in treatment
Information Resource Rooms
Dana-Farber's resource rooms give pediatric patients a comfortable place to read and learn about cancer through books, brochures, or Web site access.
Program encourages patients to bond (with kids) over books
School Liaison Program
For children who have had brain tumor treatment going back to school can be a scary process. This program connects with parents and teachers to educate them about the unique needs of brain tumor survivors.
School Liaison Program offers critical lessons
Back to School Program
Creative Arts Program
To support art and humor as therapy, Dana-Farber offers an art studio so children can express themselves creatively throughout their treatment. They can also enjoy a visit from some clowns.
Clowns deliver humor prescription to cancer patients
Recreational Resources
Patients and families can enjoy free trips to baseball games, Broadway shows, museums, and other attractions through this program.
Pediatric Psychosocial Program
Cancer treatment raises a range of social, emotional, and psychological issues. This program's staff of social workers, psychologists, resource specialist, and special educator provides support to patients and their families throughout care.
Additional patient resources
This spotlight highlights just some of the resources available to pediatric patients at Dana-Farber. For a comprehensive list of options, see our full list of Support Services. For adult patients, please see our list of Adult Patient Resources. For teens and young adults with cancer, please see our Resources for Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients.
