WHAT WE FUND
Fertility Preservation
Defending the Right to a Future Family
Cancer treatment can permanently affect a young person’s ability to have biological children. This pathway supports timely fertility counseling, preservation protocols, specialized clinical staffing, and provider training before treatment begins.
Mental Health Defense
Mobilizing Clinical Support Against Isolation
Cancer during adolescence and young adulthood can bring intense anxiety, depression, isolation, and loss of independence. This pathway expands age-appropriate counseling, peer connection, clinical support, and evidence-based mental health programs created specifically for young people.
Healthcare Navigation
Stripping Away the Logistical Burden
Families should not have to navigate cancer care alone. This pathway supports dedicated adolescent and young adult care navigators who help patients coordinate treatment, insurance approvals, clinical trials, support services, and long-term survivorship planning.
Creative Connection
Scaling the Therapeutic Power of Music
Teen Cancer America’s Play It Back program gives young people with cancer a powerful outlet for self-expression, connection, and healing. Funding supports professional studio time, creative mentorship, collaborative workshops, and the production and distribution of original patient music.
Health System Transformation
Strengthening Regional Care and National Standards
Lasting change requires more than isolated programs. This pathway supports Teen Cancer America’s work with healthcare systems to assess gaps, strengthen adolescent and young adult care teams, establish sustainable programs, and extend specialized support into community oncology practices.
The Encore Fund
Every Contribution Helps Keep the Music Playing
The Encore Fund creates a pathway for individuals, families, and communities to support the mission at every level. Contributions may honor a loved one, celebrate a survivor, support immediate patient needs, or help expand peer connection and community-based programs.
Every gift adds another voice to a national movement committed to ensuring that no teenager or young adult faces cancer alone
FROM YOUR GIFT TO THEIR CARE
The Teenage Cancer Foundation raises the resources. Teen Cancer America works with hospital and healthcare partners to put those resources to work through approved programs and initiatives.
Together, we are building a stronger national system of care for teenagers and young adults facing cancer.