2-1-1 Canada
Population served: Certain sections of Canada (check the website for availability in your area)Mission:
2-1-1 is the telephone number of a call center that offers information and provides referrals to health and human services for everyday needs and in times of crisis. Services vary from community to community.
Examples of service referrals include:
- Health services and support
- Financial and social assistance
- Housing and utility help
- Food assistance and meal programs
- Senior services and home care
- Government program assistance
- Parenting and family programs
- Disability support services
- Volunteer organizations
- Newcomer services
- Mental health support
Chai Lifeline Canada
Contact: 877-chai-lifePopulation served: Jewish children (infancy through age 21) worldwide, diagnosed with a life-threatening illness as well as those who have serious chronic or genetic conditions
Mission:
Chai Lifeline meets the nonmedical needs of seriously ill children, their families and communities. Its mission is to enhance lives through programs and services.
- Offers Camp Simcha - a sleep-away camp for children with cancer and other hematological illnesses
- Offers Camp Simcha Special - designed to meet the medical and social needs of children with more than 60 diagnoses
Children's Wish Canada
Contact: 1-800-700-4437Population served: Children under age 18 with a life-threatening illness, in Canada.
Mission:
Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada is the largest and only all-Canadian wish granting charity dedicated to granting wishes to Canadian children between the ages of 3 and 17 who are diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. For more than 30 years, Children’s Wish has worked tirelessly to grant heartfelt wishes to more than 25,000 children and their families – that’s three wishes each and every day, all year long!
Children’s Wish has chapter offices and professional staff in every province, and each wish family is assigned a dedicated Wish Coordinator who is able to personally and carefully structure each heartfelt wish experience to meet the particular needs of the child and their family. Travel wishes include all siblings 21 years and under living in the same household, and families travel worry-free thanks to exclusive Blue Cross insurance.
Cleaning for a Reason
Contact: info@cleaningforareason.org or (877) 337-3348Population served: Women with cancer
Mission:
Provide housecleaning for women currently being treated for cancer. Partner with maid services to offer professional house cleanings to help women undergoing treatment for cancer.
Make-A-Wish Canada
Contact: 888-822-9474Population served: Children with life-threatening medical conditions in Canada between the ages of 3 and 18 years
Other language(s) : FrenchMission:
To grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy.
- Grants magical wishes to children in need from coast-to-coast
- Referrals can come from family, friends, medical personnel, teachers or social workers
- Immediate family may be included in the wish experience
- The child’s doctor will be contacted for authorization that the child meets the medical criteria for a wish
- The child cannot have received a prior wish from any wish-granting organization.
Starlight Children’s Foundation
Contact: 310-479-1212Population served: Children and teens with chronic or life-threatening medical conditions in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Israel, Australia, New Zealand; teens ages 13-20 with medical issues worldwide and their teen siblings
Mission:
Partners with experts to create programs that help brighten the lives of seriously ill children and their families.
- Starbright World is an online social network for teens with chronic and life-threatening medical conditions, and their teen siblings.
- Partner facilities offer in-hospital programs such as parties and entertainment
- Check with your child’s treatment center to see if a Starlight Comfort Kit is available (backpack filled with toys, games, books).