Survivorship Champion’s Prize

The Children’s Cancer Cause Survivorship Champion’s Prize is an annual award presented to a group, program or institution making significant advances in programs and services to provide life-long health maintenance for survivors of pediatric cancers.

We’re so proud to share that we’ve named the Penn State Health Children’s Hospital Survivorship Program as the recipient of our 2024 Survivorship Champion's Prize.

Our Selection Committee lauded this program for its model of health care transitions to long-term care after treatment, engagement of primary care providers, use of telemedicine, and its large rural outreach area.

Learn more about the 2024 Prize recipient here.

 

As the recipient of the 2024 Champion’s Prize, the survivorship program at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital joins City of Hope’s Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivorship Program (2023), Phoenix Children’s Hospital Survivorship Program (2022), the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (2021), and Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers Long-Term Survivor Program (2020) as previous Champion’s Prize awardees. 

About the Survivorship Champion’s Prize:

This $10,000 annual award is presented by Children’s Cancer Cause to a group, program or institution making significant advances in programs and services to provide life-long health maintenance for survivors of pediatric cancers.

Since its inception in 2020, the Survivorship Champion’s Prize has awarded $95,000 to a total of fourteen prestigious survivorship programs across the country, enabling these institutions to address disparities in access to care, enhance and expand healthcare transition programs, improve technology, and purchase tablets and books for clinic patients.

These awards recognize the importance of programs to serve the unique challenges associated with the post-treatment services for survivors, especially as they transition to non-oncology adolescent and/or adult health care services. The Survivorship Champion’s Prize is a component of the Stewart Initiative for Childhood Cancer Survivors, an educational program of the Children’s Cancer Cause.

To leverage expertise among Prize recipients, Children’s Cancer Cause has been working with previous winners to share information to identify common clinical issues that can best be addressed through collaboration.