The Tom Coughlin Jay Fund provides financial, emotional, and practical support to families in three categories: Financial Support, Quality of Life, and Making a Child’s Life Brighter.
Financial Support
Financial burdens and stress are relieved by helping with household expense payments during a crisis and a long term financial game plan to make it through childhood cancer financially intact.
Emergency Household Expenses
Financial Game Planning
Scholarship Program
Financial Game Planning
Families are offered long term financial coaching to manage the challenges of childhood cancer.
Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy
Quality of Life
Supporting treatment centers and programs that make the patient’s visits more tolerable or effective for them and their families.
Treatment Center Enhancements
Support Systems
Nourishment Programs
Treatment Center Enhancements
Renovations to Nemours Children’s Specialty Care Play Room
Renovations to Nemours Children’s Specialty Care Play Room
Renovations to Nemours Children’s Specialty Care Play Room
Evan’s Teen Room
Evan’s Teen Room
Art with a Heart Program
Child Psychology Services
Support Systems
Bringing a group of patients or caregivers with common experiences or concerns together to provide each other with encouragement, comfort, and advice.
Adolescent & Young Adult Programs
Remembrance Weekend
Momcology Retreat
Sibling Programs
Nourishment Programs
The Family Pantry at Wolfson Children’s Hospital is a place where families can enjoy meal and snacks items, coffee and drinks all at their own convenience. The Jay Fund has chosen to BE THERE by making sure the family pantry is fully stocked for patients and their families.
Making a Child’s Life Brighter
Patients get a “day off” from cancer and create happy memories with their families. Research shows that social interaction and social skills development lead to better psychological adjustment for patients and their families.
Parties
Hospital Visits
Special Experiences
Camp
Parties
The Jay Fund parties are a place where families can come together and create life-long memories with each other. Families enjoy lots of activities, delicious food and great conversation with other families.
Valentines Party
Valentines Party
Valentines Party
Holiday Party
Holiday Party
Holiday Party
Tailgate Party
Tailgate Party
Hospital Visits
When a child is in the hospital for treatment or for other reasons, the Jay Fund chooses to BE THERE by bringing influential people to visit children and their families. Hospital visits always bring an extra smile and lots of joy for each and every family who receives a visit.
Visits with Santa
Visits with Jacksonville Jaguars Players
Visit with Read Across America
Visits with Tom Coughlin
Special Experiences
Special Experiences are opportunities the Jay Fund provides to children and their families. These opportunities can be lots of different things such as, tickets to a sporting events, concerts, the circus and more.
A Day at the Players
Bugs Bunny Symphony
Camp
The Jay Fund makes a Send Off Celebration, transportation to Camp Boggy Creek and a cabin for ten possible each summer. Sixty patients in the Jacksonville area who are headed to this special camp gather with us for food, games, dancing and more. They bid farewell to their families and then board a luxury coach, provided by the Jay Fund, for the comfortable ride to camp. Camp Boggy Creek offers kids with serious illnesses a free, safe and fun camp environment where they are not limited by their medical conditions.
Camp Boggy Creek Send Off Celebration
Camp Boggy Creek Send Off Celebration
Camp Boggy Creek Send Off Celebration
Camp Boggy Creek Send Off Celebration
Camp Boggy Creek Send Off Celebration
Camp Boggy Creek
