Programs
The Abigail E. Keller Foundation addresses critical gaps in care for medically fragile and terminally-ill children by providing support to alleviate the overwhelming burdens that families face when managing complex medical challenges.
All programs work directly with the social worker to identify and submit an application for the families under their care that are identified as experiencing financial hardship.
Our Programs:
- Financial Assistance Grants: These grants provide direct financial aid to families to help cover essential costs like rent and other expenses alongside their child’s medical care. In addition the foundation provides funeral assistance grants to bereaved families, and the larger annual Butterfly Grant to an identified family going through extenuating hardship in caring for their child.
- Care Baskets: For families entering hospice, care baskets filled with comforting and necessary items help ease the transition during a deeply emotional time.
- Birthday Boxes: Customized birthday celebrations ensure that children in hospice feel valued and cherished, allowing them to celebrate every birthday in a meaningful way. Alleviating the stress from the families.
- Abbey House: Texas’s first pediatric hospice/respite home, filling a critical gap in healthcare resources to families of medically complex children for respite and end-of-life care.
- Valentine Teddy Bear Drive: Collect teddy bears and deliver them to children who are in the hospital on Valentine’s Day.
- Abbey’s Pink Santa: Annual holiday giving program that assists families with medically fragile children through gift cards and stockings distributed by social workers to families identified