Revelstoke Trees for Tots will strive to provide families with up to date information on accommodation, transportation and other supports to consider when travelling for a child's medical appointments.
Please see below for current known programs. If you know of a program we should add to our list, please email us at [email protected]
Please see below for current known programs. If you know of a program we should add to our list, please email us at [email protected]
Accommodation Support
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BC Family Residence Program:
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/accessing-health-care/tap-bc/bc-family-residence-program Phone:1.866.496.6946 The BC Family Residence Program provides accommodation assistance to enable families to stay together when their child requires medical care at BC Children's Hospital or Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children, including premature babies and newborns with other health concerns. Enhanced travel assistance is also provided through air transportation for patients of all ages. |
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Easter Seal House:
https://www.eastersealsbcy.ca/easter-seals-house/ Phone: 1.800.818.3666 3981 Oak Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6N 4H5 Easter Seals House is a place to stay when traveling to Vancouver for medical treatment and appointments. Suites are also available for respite to parents and families needing a place to stay to relax and recharge. For so many adults and families, knowing Easter Seals House is here gives them a sense of peace and calmness. It’s their home away from home when they need to travel to Vancouver for medical treatment and care. It’s a safe, affordable home they can count on to stay, during very hard times. Located just blocks away from the best hospitals and treatment centres, makes it easy for guests and caregivers to travel to and from. |
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Ronald McDonald House:
www.rmhbc.ca Phone: 1.604.736.2957 4567 Heather Street Vancouver, BC Ronald McDonald House BC and Yukon is more than just a place to stay. It’s a community built around the healing power of family and play—even in hard times. It’s a haven that offers financial relief for parents, so they can focus on what really matters. It’s home away from home. Located on the BC Children’s Hospital campus, families staying here with their sick child have convenient access to the hospital’s essential care and state-of-the-art facilities right next door. While they receive treatment, we provide a roof over their head with everything they need to make themselves at home. |
Transportation Support
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Hope Air:
www.hopeair.org Phone: 1.877.346.4673 Through generous donations, we work with our partners to arrange travel support for Canadians in need from coast to coast. Hope Air provides free flights, accommodations, airport ground transportation and meal vouchers for low income families and individuals who must travel for medical care. To be eligible for free travel services, you must:
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BC Shriner’s Care Cruiser:
https://www.bcshriners.com/what-we-do/ Phone: 1.800.661.5437 Email: [email protected] Funded bus transportation for any BC child and their parents, or care givers who are receiving treatment at any Shriners Hospitals for Children, BC Childrens Hospital, BC Women’s Hospital and Sunny Hill Hospital. |
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Travel Assistance Program (TAP):
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/accessing-health-care/tap-bc/travel-assistance-program-tap-bc The Travel Assistance Program (TAP) helps alleviate some of the transportation costs for eligible B.C. residents who must travel within the province for non-emergency medical specialist services not available in their own community. TAP is a corporate partnership between the Ministry of Health and private transportation carriers. The program is coordinated by the Ministry of Health and the transportation partners who agree to waive or discount their regular fees. Eligible Medical Specialist Services Include:
The Following Services are not Eligible for TAP:
Health Connections (separate but complementary to TAPs) – bus https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/accessing-health-care/tap-bc/health-connections |
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Interior Health - Health Connections:
https://www.interiorhealth.ca/information-for/patients-and-visitors/transportation-to-and-from-hospital#transportation-between-hospitals-and-facilities Health Connections has developed bus services to link small communities with the regional/tertiary hospitals in all four health service areas. These are: Okanagan (links to Kelowna and Penticton), Thompson Cariboo Shuswap (links to Kamloops and Vernon), Kootenay Boundary (links to Trail) and East Kootenay (links to Cranbrook). IH partners with regional districts and BC Transit to offer services to medical riders within health service areas, but routes don't currently cross health service area boundaries. |
Other Support
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BC Children’s Hospital:
www.bcchildrens.ca Phone: 1.888.300.3088 BC Children’s Hospital provides expert care for the province’s most seriously ill or injured children, including newborns and adolescents. Based in Vancouver, BC Children’s Hospital provides the province with vital health services that may not be available anywhere else in B.C. |
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Variety – The Children’s Charity
https://www.variety.bc.ca/ Phone: 1.800.381.2040 Our current grant funding priority areas are:
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Cops for Kids-
https://copsforkids.org/ Phone: 1-877-500-4543 Cops for Kids is a charitable foundation that is committed to assisting children that have suffered a medical, physical or traumatic crisis in their young lives. Cops for Kids recognizes that the financial burdens placed on families of children in medical crisis represent significant hardship and stress to the family both emotionally and financially. BC Healthy Kids – https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/policies-for-government/bcea-policy-and-procedure-manual/health-supplements-and-programs/healthy-kids
covers basic dental, optical care and hearing assistance The Healthy Kids Program provides coverage for basic dental treatment, optical care and hearing assistance to children in low-income families, who are not in receipt of income assistance, disability assistance or hardship assistance. BC Healthy Kids Program Brochure |
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Canada Dental Benefit –
https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/child-family-benefits/dental-benefit.html The Government of Canada has implemented the interim Canada Dental Benefit, which is designed to provide some financial support to help Canadian families access dental care. With this benefit, families can start addressing some basic dental care that their young children need while the Government continues its work to develop a long-term Canadian dental care program. Canada Dental Plan Fact Sheet.pdf 
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