Walk With Sally

Walk With Sally transformed the virtual community, based on cancer's shared experience to improve health outcomes, specifically better psychological well-being, for cancer-affected families. Our pivot during the pandemic to meet the urgent needs of our families demonstrated deep impact through art healing, mindfulness, enrichment programs, deepening relationships through activities, roundtables, and workshops. Knowing we could not break our promise to the families we serve, we created an innovative virtual community.

Today, 5 million children in the United States are living with a parent who is battling or has survived cancer. The National Cancer Institute estimates 1 in 4 cancer patients are parents of a child under the age of 18. In order to help more of these children and families in LA County, Walk With Sally is asking for a $50,000 grant from LA2050 to expand its reach and impact through a satellite office in DTLA. From here we will recruit 60 more volunteers from DTLA, East LA as well as Glendale and Pasadena to support these children and families.

Walk With Sally aims to engage the cancer community and community at large throughout the city to ensure that no child walks alone in the face of a loved one,s cancer.