JACKSONVILLE – The Tom Coughlin Jay Fund, a Jacksonville-based nonprofit founded by former Jacksonville Jaguars head coach and current New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin, is launching a new financial literacy tool to help families tackling childhood cancer. Called the Financial Game Plan, the four-step approach helps families understand and manage financial challenges that result from helping a child battle cancer.
The Jay Fund assists families with emergency household expenses, funeral costs, gas and food necessities and hospital/clinic services as they deal with the emotional and physical adversity of childhood cancer. Coach Coughlin launched the Jay Fund in honor of former Boston College safety Jay McGillis, who battled leukemia.
“Families faced with childhood cancer are dealing with the unthinkable,” said Coughlin. “In many instances, this stress is compounded by the financial strains that families face as a result of parents missing work to be there with their children or medical expenses not covered by insurance. I am proud that the Jay Fund now has the ability to help not only by providing emergency financial assistance, but also by providing proven short and long-term financial strategies for getting through this difficult time.”
The Financial Game Plan includes:
■ Jay’s Financial Playbook – a backpack with an organizer to help families manage doctor appointments, keep important contact information and track medical and other expenses.
■ Quarterly financial seminar – called Managing the Financial Challenges of Childhood Cancer, the seminar gives families information, insight and support to manage their finances while battling pediatric cancer.
■ Financial coaching – gives individual families the opportunity to sit down with a financial coach and devise a plan to address financial concerns. The coach can help families develop and implement a budget, understand assets and liabilities and make difficult decisions to improve their financial health.
■ Financial assistance – the Jay Fund assists families by paying for necessities such as mortgages, rent, car, electric, water, phone, food and other household expenses during a time of crisis.
Jay Fund executive director Keli Coughlin worked closely with the families that the Jay Fund serves to develop the Financial Game Plan.
For information on the Tom Coughlin Jay Fund, go to www.tcjayfund.org or www.facebook.com/tcjayfund, or call 543-2599.
Tom Coughlin, is launching a new financial literacy tool to help families tackling childhood cancer. Called the Financial Game Plan, the four-step approach helps families understand and manage financial challenges that result from helping a child battle cancer.
The Jay Fund assists families with emergency household expenses, funeral costs, gas and food necessities and hospital/clinic services as they deal with the emotional and physical adversity of childhood cancer. Coach Coughlin launched the Jay Fund in honor of former Boston College safety Jay McGillis, who battled leukemia.
“Families faced with childhood cancer are dealing with the unthinkable,” said Coughlin. “In many instances, this stress is compounded by the financial strains that families face as a result of parents missing work to be there with their children or medical expenses not covered by insurance. I am proud that the Jay Fund now has the ability to help not only by providing emergency financial assistance, but also by providing proven short and long-term financial strategies for getting through this difficult time.”
The Financial Game Plan includes:
■ Jay’s Financial Playbook – a backpack with an organizer to help families manage doctor appointments, keep important contact information and track medical and other expenses.
■ Quarterly financial seminar – called Managing the Financial Challenges of Childhood Cancer, the seminar gives families information, insight and support to manage their finances while battling pediatric cancer.
■ Financial coaching – gives individual families the opportunity to sit down with a financial coach and devise a plan to address financial concerns. The coach can help families develop and implement a budget, understand assets and liabilities and make difficult decisions to improve their financial health.
■ Financial assistance – the Jay Fund assists families by paying for necessities such as mortgages, rent, car, electric, water, phone, food and other household expenses during a time of crisis.
Jay Fund executive director Keli Coughlin worked closely with the families that the Jay Fund serves to develop the Financial Game Plan.
For information on the Tom Coughlin Jay Fund, go to www.tcjayfund.org or www.facebook.com/tcjayfund, or call 543-2599.
Tom Coughlin, is launching a new financial literacy tool to help families tackling childhood cancer. Called the Financial Game Plan, the four-step approach helps families understand and manage financial challenges that result from helping a child battle cancer.
The Jay Fund assists families with emergency household expenses, funeral costs, gas and food necessities and hospital/clinic services as they deal with the emotional and physical adversity of childhood cancer. Coach Coughlin launched the Jay Fund in honor of former Boston College safety Jay McGillis, who battled leukemia.
“Families faced with childhood cancer are dealing with the unthinkable,” said Coughlin. “In many instances, this stress is compounded by the financial strains that families face as a result of parents missing work to be there with their children or medical expenses not covered by insurance. I am proud that the Jay Fund now has the ability to help not only by providing emergency financial assistance, but also by providing proven short and long-term financial strategies for getting through this difficult time.”
The Financial Game Plan includes:
■ Jay’s Financial Playbook – a backpack with an organizer to help families manage doctor appointments, keep important contact information and track medical and other expenses.
■ Quarterly financial seminar – called Managing the Financial Challenges of Childhood Cancer, the seminar gives families information, insight and support to manage their finances while battling pediatric cancer.
■ Financial coaching – gives individual families the opportunity to sit down with a financial coach and devise a plan to address financial concerns. The coach can help families develop and implement a budget, understand assets and liabilities and make difficult decisions to improve their financial health.
■ Financial assistance – the Jay Fund assists families by paying for necessities such as mortgages, rent, car, electric, water, phone, food and other household expenses during a time of crisis.
Jay Fund executive director Keli Coughlin worked closely with the families that the Jay Fund serves to develop the Financial Game Plan.
For information on the Tom Coughlin Jay Fund, go to www.tcjayfund.org or www.facebook.com/tcjayfund, or call 543-2599.