Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of Southern Arizona

Candlelighters supports, serves and advocates for children and adolescents with cancer, sickle cell and other blood disorders, their families, long term survivors, bereaved families, and the professionals that care for them.

Help us help these amazing warrior kids, teens, siblings and parents!

When a child is diagnosed with cancer, the family begins living a "new normal", including disruption in their social, emotional and financial stability. Each member of the family is uniquely impacted. The diagnosed child now lives and copes through medical treatments, side effects, body changes, ongoing hospitalizations and daily or weekly clinic visits, absences from school and inability to continue normal social and educational development. This child's siblings cope with fears of loss, worries regarding their own health, "survivor's" guilt or that of being the "healthy" child, loss of attention and often their own social opportunities due to the high care needs of their sibling. Parents are suddenly in need of meeting the needs of their ill child, their other children, and their own financial pressures stemming from work absences and often actual job loss due to the high care needs of their child.

Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of Southern Arizona provides social, emotional, educational and financial support to these children, teens and families through monthly events, peer to peer networking, support groups and one on one mentoring. These include our Annual Family Camp, Dream Night Prom for Teens, Holiday Assistance Party, inpatient Thanksgiving Dinner, activities in the outpatient clinic, and ongoing Young Adult and Parent Support Groups. In addition, families are eligible for up to $500.00 annually of much needed financial assistance for utilities, rent, mortgage, car payments, gas, groceries, etc. 

Your support helps make these healing connections possible. Help us help our incredible warrior kids, teens, siblings, and parents when they need it most. Thank you!

Testimonials

"When my child was diagnosed with a brain tumor I really needed to connect to other parents going through the same experience." - William's Mom.

"Family Camp was more than we ever imagined. Being surrounded by families who truly understood our journey made us feel supported and less alone." - A Candlelighters Family