Remote Family Assistants for Parents Caring for Children with Cancer

Launching in early 2023

Remote family assistants—also known as virtual family assistants—perform many of the tasks traditionally performed by on-site family assistants, so that you can make time for your loved ones by offloading family and caregiving tasks to a remote family assistant.

Tasks You Can Delegate to Your Remote Family Assistant

Household Management & Caregiving-related Tasks

  • Emotional support (non-medical, non-psychological in nature)

  • Family inbox, social media management for general updates

  • Preparing communication updates for individuals and groups

  • Managing household budgets

  • Online bills payment

  • Scheduling home maintenance and repairs

  • Shopping for essentials online

  • Planning and shopping for groceries

  • Managing calendars and scheduling appointments (including cancelation and rescheduling if needed)

  • Manage bookings and reservations

  • Performing miscellaneous errands online

How it works

We lay the foundation in Month #1.

Week 1.

Step 1. Parents are matched with a remote family assistant

Step 2. Set up a Zoom call to discuss communication plan with prioritized support tasks

Step 3. Set up a follow-up Zoom call to further discuss existing resources, processes, and local resources as needed

Step 4. A preliminary plan to test and move forward with, including weekly call schedule (day and time)

Week 2.

Put the plan to test and adjust as needed

Openly and kindly discuss what works and how certain areas can be improved

Week 3.

Find the rhythm and partnership between parents and remote family assistant

Week 4.

Celebrate month #1. How did it go?

For parents and caregivers: have you noticed any change in you and your family dynamics in month 1? How can you leverage your family assistant more or less?

For remote family assistant: what did you learn in month #1?

What happens next

After Month #1, you have the option to:

  • Continue to Month #2 — let us know and we’ll simply renew your program.

  • Request a different remote family assistant? Reach out to us and we’ll assess what can be improved and availability of our staff

  • Cancel or pause the program (and you are welcome to join us again anytime in the future)

Get in touch with us

Let us know if you have any questions for our program and we’ll keep you posted when we launch in early 2023.

Look forward to hearing from you!

You can also email us at childhoodcancerhall(at)gmail(dot)com