Cover photo: Christa and her mom Georgette

Our Mission

To provide emotional, financial, and advocacy support for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families, in order to help keep them stable, functioning, and able to cope.

Family Support Services

Friends of Karen provides Family Support Services to any child with a life-threatening illness, and their family, that meets our guidelines. Our work embraces diversity as a core value that represents inclusiveness, mutual respect, multiple perspectives, and serves as a means to achieving health equity. We provide services that consider family members’ experiences and circumstances, including their socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, language, nationality, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, geography, disability and age.

Friends of Karen provides Family Support Services to any child with a life-threatening illness, and their family, that meets our guidelines. Our work embraces diversity as a core value that represents inclusiveness, mutual respect, multiple perspectives, and serves as a means to achieving health equity. We provide services that consider family members’ experiences and circumstances, including their socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, language, nationality, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, geography, disability and age.