The following information provides general guidelines on family qualifications for financial support from the Family Reach Foundation. In addition to these parameters, the Foundation has a formal Family Case Review Committee that evaluates cases and makes final decisions.

Overall Requirements and Parameters
The following rules are consistent, more absolute eligibility guidelines. While exceptions can be made, these serve as overall principles:

Patient must be on treatment in order for the family to qualify. Patient family needs to be represented by a social worker or resource manager that can serve as a liaison with Family Reach. Patient family, through the social worker or resource manager, must demonstrate financial hardship and identify specific expenses with which they need assistance. Expenses must be for necessity items, including mortgage or rent, utilities, food, child care, travel to treatment, parking, prescriptions, other ancillary medical costs, funeral and memorial costs, and other items. In most cases, Family Reach will make a one-time grant to an approved family. However, in some cases, Family Reach will review a second request for the same family. Two grants are the maximum. In each case, a child or pediatric-type cancer must be involved in some specific way: Child is the patient (18 years old or under) Pediatric-type cancer (patient could be older than 18 but is enrolled in a pediatric program (e.g., Ewing's sarcoma) Patient is over 18 and does not have a pediatric-type cancer. However, the patient has children, and the family as a whole is facing financial hardship

Guidelines and Prioritization on Types of Cancer Cases
As our mission describes, Family Reach Foundation was created to provide financial assistance and heartfelt support to families fighting pediatric cancers and other life threatening diseases. More specifically, the majority of our funds are earmarked for families with a child who is being treated for a pediatric cancer, and in particular, a solid-tumor pediatric cancer.

However, we have also set aside a portion of funds for other special cases, including other cancers and catastrophic illnesses. The common element is that children are involved and impacted, either directly as patients, or indirectly within the family.

Here are some additional guidelines for social workers and resource managers to use to determine the relative eligibility of the family:

Cancer Case	Relative Eligibility	Family Reach Guidance
Solid-tumor Pediatric*	High	High priority for review and approval
Non solid-tumor Pediatric	Med	Consider other funds, then submit to FRF
Non-Pediatric Cancer	Low	Exhaust other funds, then submit to FRF

*This could include someone over the age of 18 who is enrolled in a pediatric program (e.g., Ewing's sarcoma)

If you have any questions, please call us at (973) 394-1411 or send an email to info@familyreach.org. Thank you, and we hope we can extend a hand.