New York and New Jersey

 
Monetary assistance provided to families for household expenses are paid directly to the vendor through our partnership with Friends of Karen. Friends of Karen is a foundation dedicated to providing emotional, financial and advocacy support to families with children facing life-threatening diseases, and has been doing so for over twenty-five years. You may find more information about Friends of Karen from their website: www.FriendsofKaren.org.

The Jay Fund partnered up with NYU Langone Medical Center to help fund Child Life programs for children fighting cancer. You can find out more about NYU Langone Medical Center from their website: www.med.nyu.edu.

The Jay Fund partnered up with The Valerie Fund to send 10 pediatric oncology patients to Camp Happy Times, a week-long summer sleep-away camp for children battling cancer. Also, the Jay Fund fully funds the Holiday Party for the children at The Valerie Fund Center at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. To learn more about The Valerie Fund, please visit their website: www.thevaleriefund.org.

The Jay Fund has partnered up with the Children’s Hospital of NJ at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center to fund an emergency household payment expense grant for families in crisis with a child fighting cancer. To learn more about the Children’s Hospital of NJ, please visit their website: www.barnabashealth.org.

The Jay Fund partnered up with the Valerie Fund Center at Overlook Hospital in Summit, NJ in late 2011.  We put in place an Electronics grant, which included a brand-new laptop, an iPad2, two portable DVD players with accessories, 25 DVDs and a gift card to help support their Child Life Program.  These items help provide an outlet and/or distract pediatric oncology patients during long and potentially painful treatments.  We are thrilled about this grant as it will provide very necessary support to the children being treated at this hospital.