HOPE Program

Program Components

School Transition And Re-entry (STAR) Program helps children from toddlers to late teens successfully return to school, college, and vocational programs after receiving cancer and blood disease treatment. STAR staff members serve as a link between the child or young adult, family, medical team, and school to coordinate health, social, and academic needs to help youth transition back in to a successful educational routine.

HOPE Resource Center (HRC) provides free information, services, referrals, and innovative technology resources for health education to cancer and blood disease patients and families.  By centralizing electronic and print information resources in one location, HOPE Resource Center helps guide families and staff searching for additional information and provides a Health Educator to help them understand the information they find.  The Center has also created a special portal for patients and families in search of cancer resources online.  Click here to access the Search Hope Portal. 

Long-term Information Follow-up and Evaluation (LIFE) Program provides long-term evaluation, support, and health education for childhood cancer survivors as they become adults. LIFE program staff help young people understand, cope with, and manage late effects of childhood cancer treatments as they transition to adulthood. 

Watch Celebrate Life with HOPE Event Video Footage
Visit the LIFE Program website

Teen Impact for Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer and Blood Diseases improves the quality of life for teens and young adults surviving cancer by providing group interventions, retreats, and recreational outings.  The program provides teenaged patients a safe and therapeutic environment to discuss and receive peer based support and guidance through unique adolescent and cancer-related issues.  
Find out more about the Teen Impact Program.
Teens in the program maintain their own website.