Cash support and benefits counseling (PediRISE) for families facing poverty during childhood cancer treatment

You may qualify if

• Cohort 1: Poverty-exposed children with cancer receiving front-line cancer-directed therapy
• Child diagnosed with de novo cancer
• Child has established care at a study site and initiated cancer directed therapy in the prior 2-months
• Child planned to receive at least 4-months of cancer-directed therapy at study site from time of diagnosis per initial cancer treatment plan
• Child is <18 years at time of enrollment
• Parent/guardian screened positive for self-reported low-income (<200% FPL)
• Family primary residence in CA, CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY or RI
• Provider approval for permission to approach Cohort 2: Poverty-exposed children with cancer undergoing HSCT
• Child undergoing allogeneic HSCT for treatment of cancer
• Child has established care at a study site and is between 30 days prior to start of planned conditioning through day +7 of HSCT at time of enrollment
• Child planned to receive follow-up care after discharge for HSCT at study site
• Child is <18 years at the time of enrollment
• Parent/guardian screen positive for self-reported low-income (<200% FPL)
• Family primary residence in CA, CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY or RI
• Provider approval for permission to approach

You can't join if

• Cohort 1: Poverty-exposed children with cancer receiving front-line cancer-directed therapy
• Planned transfer of child to a non-DFCI or non-Columbia facility for cancer-directed therapy
• Foreign national family receiving care as an Embassy-pay patient
• Child is enrolled on embedded correlative health equity aims of open or upcoming clinical drug trials which are powered on descriptive parent-reported poverty data (e.g. AALL1731, DFCI 25-001). Co-enrollment on a poverty intervention study would confound the specified endpoints of these open trial correlative studies
• Child or household member receiving SSI Cohort 2: Poverty-exposed children with cancer undergoing HSCT
• Planned transfer of child to a non-DFCI, non-Columbia, or non UCSF facility for cancer-directed therapy
• Foreign national family receiving care as an Embassy-pay patient
• Child is enrolled on embedded correlative health equity aims of open or upcoming clinical drug trials which are powered on descriptive parent-reported poverty data (e.g. AALL1731, DFCI 25-001). Co-enrollment on a poverty intervention study would confound the specified endpoints of these open trial correlative studies
• Child previously received RISE intervention
• Child or household member receiving SSI