Watch to hear how our programs are helping children, families, hospitals and communities help in their fight against cancer in hospitals across Japan.
Current Programs
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Facility Dog Improves treatment outcome and children’s approach to medical treatment through Japan’s first, full-time Animal Assisted Therapy program at a children’s hospital. |
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Beads of Courage® Decreases illness-related distress, increases positive coping strategies and enables children to find meaning in illness through a creative program involving colorful beads corresponding to each aspect of cancer treatment. |
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Team Beads of Courage Offers athletes and anyone choosing to embark on a challenge the opportunity to participate in the very powerful Team Beads of Courage program whereby a very special bead is carried during a race, climb, or other event, then given to a child when they most need a boost of encouragement. |
Completed Programs
- Shine On! House: provides a complete support facility for families of children with cancer.
- Shine On! Clinic: provides both a long-term follow-up clinic to support childhood cancer survivors as well as daily outpatient clinic support center for current pediatric cancer patients at the hospital.
- Shine On! Tohoku Children’s Support Program: provides physical and emotional support to pediatric patients and their families as well as children in the affected communities who need extra psychological encouragement and support.
- Certified Nurse Specialist Scholarship Program: provided better medical care for pediatric oncology patients.
- Japan Pediatric Leukemia Study Group Support Program: supported a specific pediatric leukemia research project which could not otherwise be funded.
- Shine On! Childcare Program: provides sibling child care for families with children in hospital.
- Shine On! Pediatric Oncology Medical Support Program: improves the quality of patient care by adding a top-level pediatric oncologist to a hospital’s pediatric oncology/hematology team.
- Counseling and Support
Maximizes quality of life for pediatric oncology patients and their families throughout the entire cancer treatment process by placing clinical psychologists in pediatric cancer wards.
