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HOPE Program

HOPE RESOURCE CENTER

The HOPE Program provides compassionate psychosocial care and support for patients diagnosed and treated in our Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases. 

We use our experience supporting patients over the past 30 years to create new and innovative approaches to psychosocial care, and in concert with the caregivers in our Center, work to reduce suffering and improve quality of life for our patients.

PROGRAM MISSION

To develop and coordinate a complete range of culturally sensitive psychosocial services and educational activities for young people with cancer or blood diseases, their families, professionals, and the community; and to provide leadership and coordination in psychosocial health outcomes research with this population.

HOPE ANNUAL REPORT 2009

Download our annual report to read about our efforts to help kids with cancer, our patients' success stories, our gratitude for supportive donors, and much more. 

PROGRAM VALUES

Achievement of the HOPE Program mission rests on our belief in certain core values. These include:

  • The right of all individuals (children, adolescents, families, and survivors) to the best possible psychosocial care during and after treatment for cancer or blood diseases.
  • Collaboration across healthcare disciplines involved in pediatric hematology-oncology clinical care, education and research.
  • The importance of evidence based practice.
  • Innovative thinking with openness to new ideas and opportunities.
  • Ethical integrity in all aspects of the psychosocial health outcomes research.
  • Respect for family, cultural, ethnic and racial diversity.
  • Stewardship and accountability for psychosocial care.
  • Education and information dissemination relative to psychosocial health outcomes.
  • Respect for the past history of psychosocial care, with a focus on the future.
  • Leadership that respects the wisdom of all individuals involved in psychosocial care of young people with cancer or blood diseases.

CONTACT US

HOPE Program
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
4650 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA  90027

323-361-4135

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PROGRAM LEADERSHIP

Ernest R. Katz, PhD and Kathleen Ruccione, MPH, RN, FAAN