Comfort Bags
When a young adult receives a cancer diagnosis, they often enter treatment with nothing. Our Comfort Bags – filled with blankets, journals, toiletries, and other essentials – ease the shock of those first difficult days. We deliver 200+ bags annually to newly-diagnosed patients through the Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) programs at Princess Margaret, SickKids, and Sunnybrook.
Art Therapy
We partner with the AYA program at Princess Margaret to fund Art Therapy – a clinically-supervised program led by a certified art therapist. Patients explore healing through creative expression in multi-session group settings. Sessions are person-centred and individualized, giving young adults space to process their cancer experience in ways words often can’t.
200+ Comfort Bags
delivered annually
$100 provides
four Comfort Bags
$500 sponsors one
patient’s Art Therapy program
”Alli’s Journey has filled a very important gap in AYA cancer care. Given that a cancer diagnosis is often unexpected, the bags provide helpful gear to make the hospital experience easier.
Laura Mitchell, RN, MN, CON(c)Clinical Nurse Specialist, AYA Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre