The Mission
The Valerie Fund’s mission is to provide support for the comprehensive health care of children with cancer and blood disorders. We focus on patients and the families who love them.
To truly heal a child, that child must be treated emotionally and medically. We also support the family and caregivers closest to the patient. We make local treatment possible for children with
cancer and blood disorders.
In 1976, Valerie Goldstein’s parents Ed and Sue established The Valerie Fund in their nine-year old daughter’s memory. Their desire was to bring the highest quality of care close to home in order to ease the burden on families. Today, there are eight Valerie Fund Children’s Centers that serve nearly 6,000 children each year in community and academic settings in New Jersey, New York City and Long Island, and metro Philadelphia.
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ABOUT THE VALERIE FUND: After their nine-year-old daughter Valerie succumbed to cancer in 1976, Sue and Ed Goldstein were determined that no family should have to travel great distances to receive superior medical care. Along with a group of close friends, they began fundraising efforts from their living room---tireless work that would lead to the 1977 opening of New Jersey’s first pediatric oncology facility at Summit’s Overlook Hospital. Forty-five years later, The Valerie Fund’s mission remains that of supporting comprehensive health care for children battling cancer and blood disorders. |