The Children’s Cancer Cause announced that the organization is accepting applications for its 2024 Survivorship Champion’s Prize.
Overview of the Prize
The Survivorship Champion’s Prize, totaling $10,000, is presented by Children’s Cancer Cause annually to a group, program, or institution demonstrating significant advances in programs and services that provide life-long health maintenance to pediatric survivors of cancer. Established in 2020, the Prize has awarded a total of $85,000 in funding to 13 prestigious survivorship programs across the country, enabling these institutions to tackle disparities in access to cancer care, enhance and expand health-care transition programs, improve technology, and purchase tablets and books for clinic patients.
As a component of the Stewart Initiative for Childhood Cancer Survivors—an educational program of the Children’s Cancer Cause—the Survivorship Champion’s Prize recognizes the importance of programs that address the unique challenges associated with posttreatment services for cancer survivors, especially as they transition to nononcology adolescent and/or adult health-care services.
To leverage expertise among recipients of the Prize, the Children’s Cancer Cause has worked with previous winners to share information to identify common clinical issues that can be effectively eliminated through collaboration. The 2024 Prize recipient will have the opportunity to become a part of this collective effort.
Former Recipients of the Survivorship Champion’s Prize
City of Hope’s Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivorship Program (2023) will join the Phoenix Children’s Hospital Survivorship Program (2022), the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Cancer Survivor Program (2021), and the Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers Long-Term Survivor Program (2020) as previous Survivorship Champion’s Prize awardees.
Among the other recipients of the Children’s Cancer Cause awards were:
- Jude Transition Oncology Program, which received the Recognition Award for Program Impact (2022)
- ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation, which received the Recognition Award for Scalability (2022)
- David B. Perini Jr Quality of Life Clinic for Childhood Cancer Survivors at Dana-Farber Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center received the Recognition Award for Collaboration (2022)
- Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center’s Treatment After Cancer and Late Effects Program, which received the Recognition Award for Program Impact (2021)
- Valley Children’s Hospital Childhood Cancer Survivorship Program, which received the Recognition Award for Scalability (2021)
- Children’s Hospital of Orange County’s After Cancer Treatment Survivorship Program, which received the Recognition Award for Collaboration (2021)
- Yale School of Medicine’s HEROS Clinic for Childhood Cancer Survivorship, which received the Recognition Award for Impact (2020)
- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey’s LITE Program for Pediatric Cancer Survivors, which received the Recognition Award for Scalability (2020)
- Children’s Wisconsin Next Steps Survivorship Program, which received the Recognition Award for Collaboration (2020).
Those interested in applying to the 2024 Survivorship Champion’s Prize can visit childhoodcancersurvivorship.org.
