Boston Children's Hospital Every Child Fund

While the world around us continues to change with COVID-19, we know one thing that remains the same: the quality of care for our patients here at Boston Children’s Hospital. The Every Child Fund, which is the hospital’s unrestricted fund, allows us to continue providing world class care to children both here in Boston and from around the world.

Stress Relievers

Caring for a sick child is stressful enough, let alone facing those same challenges in the face of a pandemic. Through the Every Child Fund, the Hospital is able to offer yoga classes, Reiki, massages, family coffee groups and other services to ease stress and restore energy. Our caregivers have been able to pivot many of these services to a virtual format in order to offer the same vital support to families through a modified platform.

Support Sessions & Interpreters

When a child is sick, it often affects the entire family – including siblings. Social workers and support sessions can help families feel less alone through personalized compassionate care. Through these sessions we are able to expand our focus to each member of the family while treating the sick child. We are able to offer over 100 interpreters and 20 languages as a resource for families who would benefit from additional support in communicating with doctors and caregivers.

Meal & Parking Vouchers

Through providing meal vouchers and parking vouchers, we are able to relieve some of the strains that may come with having a child in the hospital. Over 20,000 meal vouchers sustain families whose savings may be depleted by the expenses of caring for a sick child, and our parking program supports over 1,300 families in need.

With the various programs that the Hospital is able to coordinate with support from the Every Child Fund, we help parents to be fully present with their children. Generous donations from people like you allow us to support our patients and families through stress relievers, support sessions, and other valuable services that can bring light to families’ lives in the most challenging times.

Thank you for your support of Boston Children’s Hospital.

The Every Child Fund, our most vital fund, empowers Boston Children’s Hospital to respond to a changing world with one goal: to give every child a healthy future. We provide compassionate care to children facing illness and injury, as well as caring support to their families. Here are some of the ways your donation supports our patients and families:

Nurture Every Child

Facing an illness can be a stressful experience for a child, but we do our best to bring joy to the hospital and to our patients. Through experiences that include celebrations, therapy dogs, and music therapists, we are able to help kids continue to be kids during their visit.

Support Every Family

When a child is sick, it can affect the entire family. Parents may need to put their lives on hold, which can lead to overwhelming choices. The Every Child Fund supports our family-centered care, alleviating some of the stressors that a family may experience, so parents can focus on their sick child. These services, housing, interpreters and social workers are not covered by insurance.

Conquer Every Disease

Boston Children’s is where the world comes for answers. We find solutions that others can’t, and we tackle childhood diseases from every angle. Boston Children’s Hospital is home to the world’s largest pediatric research facility in the world, and our research is part of break-through discoveries in helping find cures. We share our treatments with the world through training and global programs.

Boston Children’s Hospital has always worked tirelessly to help sick and injured children and families, and we will continue to do so in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the quality of care for our patients has not changed, our needs are greater now than we could ever have imagined. Our hospital workers are putting their lives on the line every day to save children’s lives, and they cannot do it alone. By generously offering your support to Boston Children’s, you are a part of bringing healing and hope to children and families during this crisis. You allow families to receive an extraordinary level of care, one we otherwise could not make possible. Because of you, parents can focus on what's most important: their child. Thank you for your support.